By Augustine Ehikioya
Towards fighting crimes and criminality in the country, Pastor Chukwuma Nwokocha of the Pastor Nwokocha Ministry has called for change of mindset of Nigerian youths.
He noted that presently many youths in the country are involved in cultism, robbery, kidnapping, raping and thuggery, which when not addressed now will be like sitting on time bomb.
The Pastor spoke in Abuja during the Ministry’s 2024 Youth Convention. It was themed “Changing the Mindset of this Generation”
To also empower the Nigerian youth and position them for greatness, Pastor Nwokocha also urged President Bola Tinubu to re-introduce technical schools.
According to him, that’s a quick way to change a lot of things in the life of the children.
Doing this, he said, will empower the youth and make sure they have something tangible to fall back on, even after leaving universities.
His words “But what I’m appealing to the President, President Bola Tinubu, that he should please re-introduce our technical schools.
“Before you go to university, you go to technical college that helps you to acquire a skill that at the end of the day, you have something handy.”
Pastor Nwokocha lamented the present scenerio where the youth go from primary to secondary to university and graduated without a skill or something to do.
“The aim of organizing this programme as a Ministry is for us to appeal to those in authority to help us re-introduce technical colleges, not converting our technical colleges to universities.” he said.
To change the mindset of the youth, he said, the older generation must also change its mindset.
“We are doing what we can do, but we are not doing enough. This is the time to change the mindset of this younger generation so that they will begin to what is right and becomes what the Lord says they will become.
“It will reduce the crimes we have in the nation because the foundation is from the parents to the children. Whatever you lay in the children, that’s what you get.” he added
Pastor Nwokocha therefore charged parents to raise their children in a Godly way.
He declared that parenting a child at all levels is a divine duty and that every parent must give account of this tomorrow.
Speaking at the convention, a Retired Director of Administration in NAPTIP Abuja, Mrs. Benedicta Ojugbana, called on youth to be careful of traffickers and know that all that glitters are not gold.
Stressing that traffickers always go for the vulnerable and poor, she asked Nigerians to report any incident of human trafficking, sexual exploitation to NAPTIP.
“We are called to be careful of strangers who promise us milk and honey, we are called to talk to our daughters, talk to our children. Everyone of us is called to change the mindset of our youth of the present day Nigeria. Human trafficking is evil, and we are called if we see something, say something.” she said
She also urged Nigerians not sell any organ in their body for monetary gains.
On his part, MD/CEO Editor-in-chief of Just Liberation Newspapers, TV & Radio Station Online, Amb. Fanny Amun, said that mindset has nothing to do with government or policies, but what people have in their minds to do and become.
He said “Mindset starts from home. What is the belief of we that are parents? A child that refuses to pull through today will become a menace to you tomorrow.
“If you build a house on the rock, you will reap from it, and if you build in on.. .. manner, you will as well reap from it.
“It is a mindset, not the issue of Nigeria. The mindset of what a child wants to be in life, by the grace of God, he will be,” he stated.
