Security expert, Sir Chikwe Udensi, has applauded the management of Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU) for banning students from driving their private cars on the institution’s campus.
According to him, the decision will discourage other students from desperately seeking to equally own cars by all means, including devious ways.
While insisting that illegitimate means of wealth acquisition has dominated the minds of young people in the society, Udensi also expressed sadness over criminal activities such as ritual killings, internet fraud, kidnapping and other vices as means of getting rich among young people.
The governorship hopeful of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for Abia State spoke on Wednesday during a radio programme – Open Parliament – on Love FM, Umuahia.
He wholeheartedly backed the decision by the ABSU management, emphasizing the need to censor what young people see, watch and hear.
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He attributed the growing quest for quick wealth among young people to what they see in the movies, insisting that they are made to believe that one can become rich by viciously harvesting the organs of other people. He, therefore, urged parents and caregivers to teach their children and wards the difference between reality and make-believe.
“You saw the one that happened the other day where the private organs of an 8-year-old girl were taken and when the young man was asked his reason for doing what he did, he alluded to the fact that he believed he would make money by using people’s parts. “This is a form of primitivity; it is lack of development of the brain to believe you can make money through using parts of human beings.
“Our children should be told that they can only make money through honest hard work because hard work pays. We need to inculcate in our children the attitude of hard work and get legitimate means of livelihood in the process of working hard. That it what it ought to be,” he said.
Uddnsi emphasized that the use of cars in schools has created some wild ostentation among the students, adding that it should not be encouraged.
The Abia governorship aspirant said students should concentrate in their studies and shun show of affluence while on campuses. While noting that car remains an essential means of transportation, Udensi said there is nothing wrong in students who live far away from school transporting with private cars, adding however that it should not be for the purposes of showing off ostentatious lifestyle.
“We have to realise that it is not only learning that is acquired in school. It also ought to come with character,” he added.