Terrorism: FG to develop value re-orientation policy

The Federal Government is set to develop a comprehensive and workable policy on value re-orientation for the nation’s citizens to ensure sanity in the society in reaction to the current insurgency in some parts of the country.

The Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Mrs Nkechi Ejele, stated this at the delegate conference on the Formulation of a National Policy on Orientation in Abuja, where she attributed the current challenge of insecurity in the country to the decay in the norms and cultural values system.

According to her, “The core values that were cherished by our fore fathers had been jettisoned that is why we are working assiduously with some knowledgeable resource persons to develop a policy that will enable us address the problem.

“There is need for us to have a structure and systematic way addressing the problem, to ensure value re-orientation and behavioural change,” she said.

A resource person from the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, Kuru, Jos, Prof. Olu Obafemi who also spoke at the conference, noted that the much talked about ‘our unity in diversity’ as a nation was a mere lip service.

“We have subjected to values and culture that are alien to us,” and this had swallowed up “our norms and values,” he submitted.

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