Foundation for Enhancement and Promotion of Family Life (FEPFL), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to adopt moral battle engagements approach ,alongside legal prosecutions in the fight against corruption.
The Foundation made the call in a letter to Mr President, signed by Mr John Amabi, its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) said on Saturday in Lokoja.
The foundation commended the President’s courage in declaring war against corruption and insecurity in the country adding that it had been proved that corruption, crime and violence extremism had immorality as their roots and foundations.
“The Anti-Terrorism Committee of 2016 would only be relevant and achieve its aim when corruption, crime, radicalisation and violent extremism are disarmed through well-coordinated moral battle engagements.
“We are faced with these levels of corruption, crime and violent extremism because our human moral systems are dead for lack of activation through moral education in homes and families,” the NGO said.
According to the foundation, while legal prosecution stops or kills the crimes, moral battle engagements bury them by nurturing a generation of citizens with ideal human moral values.
The traditional African setting, it said, used the marriage institution and family systems to control and manage all forms of social crimes, including corruption and radicalisation in the past but noted that their values were eroded by modernity.
“Mr President, the greatest legacy you can build for the nation, Nigeria, is that of human moral value activation.
“This can be done by declaring a ‘State of Emergency’ in the social welfare department in the Ministries of Women Affairs and Social Development, at the Federal, State and Local Government levels.
“Note, Sir, that no nation of the world will give money to another nation to build and inculcate moral values in her citizens since that is the strength of nations and countries’ greatness.
“A nation that spends money to build human moral values of her citizens, through well-funded social welfare departments, will often spend less on social securities, this because people are often self-policing doing the right things without being coerced by enforcement agents.”
