Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, and former head of Interim Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan, have spoken on the need for Nigerians to revive the socio-cultural values that have helped to define the country in the past, saying, “it is the cause of insecurity in the country.”
Speaking at the annual lecture of the Lagos State University, LASU Alumni, with the theme, ‘Good Governance: A Tool for Revitalisation of the Socio-cultural Values for Social Developmen,’ at the LASU Campus, Ojo, Fashola and Shonekan said, “these socio-cultural values are the fundamentals for development in any country and will catapult the country to an enviable height, if quickly revived.”
Shonekan, who chaired the 21st annual lecture of the Alumni, blamed kidnapping and other challenges confronting the country on the lack of socio-cultural values, which are eroding daily from the Nigerian society, saying, “all these are the manifestations of the debasement of values in the country.”
In his lecture entitled, ‘Re-ordering our socio-cultural values as a tool for good governance and development,’ Fashola said “It is only the restoration of values that can enable good governance to drive. As a nation, we must reclaim these values because they are strongly eroding away quickly. These values are some of the things that have made us essentially African. And we need to go back to some of them quickly.”
In his explanation of the lost values, Fashola said “decency and diligence, hard work, humility, integrity and honesty. These are some of the critical values that we must adhere to in the country.”
