SAY NO TO VICES.

The level of moral decadence in our society has reached a point where folding our arms and watching the events as they unfold will definitely be inimical to our well being that of the generations yet unborn. Day-in-day- out, our news media is awash with stories of people involved in one form of atrocity or the other. Sadly enough the trend continues unabated. It is rather escalating with more sophistication courtesy of advancing technology. Most people are involved in all kinds of vices without considering the effects of their nefarious activities on their fellow citizens who chose to tread the path of honour. Ironically these honourable ones are being made to suffer humiliation, terrorism, poverty and all such unpalatable consequences. The situation is pathetic as it involves people of all races and colour.

Corruption is rampant in both private and public organizations. It is the order of the day for people to cut corners and breach the trust reposed in them by their employers and the society just to satisfy their inordinate ambitions and insatiable desire for the pleasures of the world. Cases of electoral malpractices ranging from election rigging to results falsification and outright theft of ballot boxes characterized some nations’ electoral processes. Political office holders at all levels have jettisoned their statutory roles and responsibilities, instead they are leaving no stone unturned in amassing wealth through the indiscriminate plundering of the commonwealth of their countries which they siphon to other places through their family members, cronies and foreign collaborators.

Most of the youths who are the leaders of tomorrow have become criminals. If they are not on the internet looking for people to scam under false pretences, they are busy kidnapping, robbing or planning how to undertake suicide bombing. All the websites created for social networking have been turned by the people to avenues to defraud their fellow men locally and internationally. Elsewhere youths are being trained in the art of terrorism under the guise of religion fundamentalism. The craze to reap where they did not sow has turned many people to swindlers, pirates, fraudsters and the like. They fabricate all manners of lies to dupe unsuspecting but oftentimes gullible individuals and corporate bodies who found their offers irresistible.

Able-bodied men and women who are supposed to engage in productive ventures and shore their respective nations GDP are involved in illicit trades like drug peddling, money laundering, child trafficking and other criminal activities like thuggery, cultism, armed robbery, militancy and senseless assassination of fellow human beings. The female ones are struggling to outdo one another in prostitution with alarming recklessness. Our ladies mode of dressing under the guise of civilization is gradually drawing us back to the Stone Age when people only cover their private parts apparently to prevent dust from entering into their bodies and leave the rest of the body uncovered.

Human rights violations from people in authority and those being paid to enforce law and safeguard the society are common phenomenon. Governments, the military, police and Para-military agents indulge in unlawful acts and often times in extrajudicial killings of fellow human beings through senseless wars, civil strife etc usually on flimsy excuses. Such Governments through maladministration are responsible for the pestilence and abject poverty confronting their people.

Those who are battering the image of humanity and those who have turned themselves into agents of destruction and made the world unsafe are all culpable as they have the freewill to choose between good and bad. I believe that through proper orientation, we can instill in people, the right attitude to living a normal and decent life. I whole heartedly desire that people should change their ways of life to make the world a better place for all of us. I call on individuals, corporate bodies, governments and non-governmental organizations to rise up to the challenge of sensitizing the populace of the negative effects of social, economic and political vices. Let us all seek to make our fellow citizens to conform to God’s standard and internationally acceptable code of conduct. The whole world needs a complete culture change.

Last line: “those to whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future”….author unknown.

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Sincerely yours.