Anti-Corruption Day: Monye Seeks Enlistment of Nigerian Children, Youths Into Anti- graft Crusade
A public affairs analyst and commentator has called for the enhanced enlistment of Nigerian children and youths into the anti-graft crusade.
Mr. Lucky Ehiwuogwu Monye, the founder of Lucky Ehiwuogwu Monye Foundation and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Monaco Ventures Nigeria Limited,a frontline private security firm, said that the enhanced enlistment of future leaders as children and youths would deepen the crusade and its impact.
Monye made the submission in a statement he issued on the occasion of the 2025 edition of the Anti- Corruption Day.
Monye said that in order to attain the major noble gain of the crusade, which is the erosion of corruption to the barest minimum, both preventive and corrective strategies and tactics needed to be adopted and faithfully implemented.
While he called for stiff sanctions for offenders under the law, he advocated that the family and other socializing agents as schools and religious organizations must be deliberately brought into the crusade as active participants .
He stressed that while the judiciary and law enforcement agents needed to be firm and fair in their handling of corruption and related cases, parents, teachers,community and religious leaders must live out their responsibility in the upbringing of responsible children and youths.
He decried a situation where present day parents were, in his view, shirk their primary responsibility of raising morally upright and creative children, while the teachers and religious leaders were aloof to their roles in the moulding of godly children and youths.
He urged character moulders, especially parents, teachers, and community leaders, to discipline children under their care within the provisions of the law and the moral code of society.
Monye warned of the dangers of character moulders outsourcing their roles as guardians of the future generations to the social media services providers on the internet.
He called for the introduction of the crusade into the curriculum of schools across basic, secondary, and tertiary levels.
Monye noted that the subjects relating to anti- graft needed to be made compulsory for all learners across all rings of education , as well as be embedded in the public enlightenment campaigns of information and orientation agencies.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Chieftain in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State stressed that the crusade must not be left to the government alone but that all stakeholders, especially parents, teachers, religious and opinion leaders needed to return to their positive socializing roles.
He added that the vice of corruption, left unchecked, could irreparably destroy a people. Hence, it must be fought frontally and sustainably.
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