President’s Respect For Elders

[Shola Sholaz]

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan is unhappy with Nigerians. He is in no doubt they have lost moral values, including respect for elders.
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The President asked the church to redeem the situation when he flagged off the National Christian Campaign on Social Transformation.
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The campaign is important enough to cut across religious lines, if it is to have an impact that would ameliorate a pervasive national condition.
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Can we do something about it?
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"Our priorities are misplaced. We have trained our children to insult elders, parents fight teachers who discipline their children and so we have been reproducing badly behaved children, who come under peers influences.
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The church itself has not always done what it should do, some of the teachings in some of our churches have turned the bible upside down, the bible is meant to teach us  which is right and helps us to do righteous things." he added.