Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the tutoring and imbibing of cherished values, integrity is the only genuine measures to build and rebuild a nation.
This was said at a workshop themed “Building the Nigeria of Our Dream” which was organized by an NGO known as Apostles in the marketplace (AIMP).
Read the VP’s speech here:
I am to speak on the theme of the workshop, what can we do to rebuild our nation, but I have also decided to ask the question why do we need to rebuild?
Obviously, it is because a lot has been destroyed, values, principles, have been destroyed, moral efforts and all of the other various things that have been destroyed.
But the reality is, of course, that as the years have gone by, we simply have not paid much attention as we ought to, especially to questions of values.
So today people are not even certain anymore what those values should be.
One of the things I discovered while pastoring was just the fact that very many young people do not understand anymore, what the real moral questions were.
It is not just a matter of values being lost, many young people don’t understand what is wrong anymore.
It turns out that there is a whole lot that the righteous can do when the foundations appeared to have been destroyed.
The reasons why the question was asked the righteous, somehow God has decided that it is the duty and assignment of the righteous to build and rebuild the Nation.
The scripture tells us also that the righteous are the salt of the earth, the light of the world.
In other words, everything that was done wrong with our society is just waiting for the righteous to take action to rebuild them, he said.
We must recognize that even when we make mistakes, we must not give up on doing the right thing; we must set examples of what we want the world to be.
We must teach this values, we must teach righteousness in our Churches.
We must teach the values everywhere, we must teach the values to young people, it is so important that we recognize that righteousness has to be taught to somebody.
So, we need to teach integrity, we need to teach the ways of righteousness, it is really up to us to let young people understand that integrity pays.
The currency of the world is trust, if you can’t be trusted it becomes extremely difficult to do business and sustain any kind of Relationship.