Kehinde Akinyemi
3 October 2008
Abeokuta — Governors of the Southwest of Nigeria including traditional rulers and leaders on Thursday in Abeokuta , Ogun state capital agreed that there was urgent need to revisit moral studies in schools in order to bring back the lost glory of the region.
To this end, it was hinted that the teaching of the crucial subject would bounce back with vigour, better curricula, teaching aids and qualified teaching staff.
The Ondo State governor, Chief Olusegun Agagu, while responding to Daily Trust question shortly after the host governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, presented the communiqué at the all important meeting said it was time to bring back sanity into the moral re-armament of the South west.
The governor lamented that the concept of "omoluabi (responsible person) in the present situation has been lost in the region. Gone are those days that we used to be a cradle with the concept of omoluabli. There is minimum standard and order of what is acceptable in the society.
"These days, we appear to have lost so much of this moral.. We have agreed that there is need to re-evaluate our morals and morality in this part of this country. Even the holy books; the Bible and the Quran, point out the need for order," the governor said.
Agagu added that by teaching moral studies in schools, "it will go a long way to bring back the lost values of our region. But, we have to go through it with new approaches. We have to go back to the curriculum, provision of teaching aids and employment of qualified teaching staff.
Daniel in his address said that the meeting which was the fourth in the series, was aimed at presenting a new body to champion the cause of the region, stressing that it was meant "to strengthen unity in Yorubaland and rekindle the spirit of brotherliness that had from time immemorial, served as our sustenance.
The governors of Ekiti, Osun, Ondo, Oyo and representatives of the Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola, were at the 10-hour meeting, while traditional rulers led by the Alake of Egbaland, Oba (Dr.) Adedotun Gbadebo and others from the region were in attendance.
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