Children’s Negligence: Legal Luminary Cautions Parents

A Senior Advocate of
Nigeria, Mr Nnamdi Ibegbu, has condemned in its entirety, the idea of keeping children in school till late in the evening, under the guise of having extra-mural classes.
The legal luminary expressed his displeasure over the new trend Monday in Abuja while granting audience to the press.
Tasking parents on proper upbringing of their children, Mr Nnamdi maintained that the school teacher and every other member of the society would only build on what parents have started and not playing the role of the parents. In his words “if we take care of our respective families, the society will do the rest and we will have a better society: this will make the society a good place and we will have a better Nigeria.
He decried the attitude of some parents who abandon their children to driver, nannies and house helps, including teachers who stay with the children for extra hours at school under the guise of extra-mural classes, stating that when their parents finish with work and take the child home, they don’t know the influence it has on the children.”
“Every family should have religious background. If a child is a Christian or a Muslim he should be a good one. This should be done from cradle,” he said. According to him, if a child is a good person, he is taught not to steal, kill or take public money at home, school and society.
Ibegbu said the absence of parents at home  as they chase after material gains, their businesses professions and other engagements without remembering the children at home eventually leads the children into crime.
In his words “people are so busy these days that they no longer have time for the family, .. when they get back home at night, the children probably had gone to bed and they cannot assess what the children went through the whole day.

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Officials of Save the Children Global Day of Action for Children By 2030′, making a presentation at the Save the
Children Country Office in Maitama, Abuja, yesterday