Sir: On the heels of a former student of the University of Ilorin, who beat his lecturer and SIWES Industrial Training coordinator to a pulp drawing himself an expulsion and prosecution in the process, students of two secondary schools in Asero area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, attacked the Divisional Police Officer , for Obantoko Division, Mr. Alimeke Ignatius, on November 24, 2021.
Like a gale, Nigeria`s harmattan of moral decadence is blowing forcefully, splitting the lips of every Nigerian value and battering an entire country with its cold draught. When children begin school – which is usually their first point of interaction with the outside world – a confluence of many people from many different backgrounds poses a formidable challenge and soon, innocence gives way to conflicts which threaten the students, their teachers, their schools and mercilessly mocks the alternate reality of education as a force for moral rectitude.
They say we should catch them young, but who can catch the snake that many of our children have today become without getting bitten? They also say that children are the leaders of tomorrow, but can any serious country be led by a posse of dangerous decadents? An Igbo adage asks: was this the state of the antelope`s stomach before it gave birth to four calves?