Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has blamed Nigerian parents for the worrisome state of the nation.
The minister said this at the 10th children creative station workshop organised by the National Troupe of Nigeria to commemorate the 2023 International Theater Day (ITD) held in Abuja Internally Displaced Persons camp.
Lai Mohammed lamented that most children had been exposed to violence at very tender ages by house helps and had grown to see it as the best way of living.
The minister who was represented by the Managing Director National Theater Prof Sunday Enessi Ododo, appealed to parents to create more time for their families if they really wanted the country to be better place.
According to him “most misbehaviours in Nigeria are due to lack of family attention to children upbringing. In our society today, most parents have assigned their duties to nannies as they go to work. The children have to feed from the behaviours and characters of nannies.
“We have seen videos where our children are maltreated by these nannies. In very tender ages they are introduced to violence and are made to believe that is the way of life. This is a general call for parents to revoke their schedules in such a way that they can have enough time for their children; teachers can’t give everything.”
He appreciated the agency for giving hope for the IDP children, adding that it would help them to reconnect to their lost culture.
The Artistic Director/CEO National Troupe of Nigeria (NTN) Ahmed Mohammed, on his part said Nigeria cannot develop without its culture.
Ahmed added that the choice of IDP camp was to reconnect the children who might have lost some of their culture due to displacement.
