As a little boy, I grown up to love this evergreen song "Sweet mother I no go forget you, for the suffer wey you suffer for me". The song portray the uniqueness, awesomeness and preciousness of motherhood.
In African tradition, children are passionate about their mothers and to them, mothers are second to God. By creation and design, mothers and wife are the custodian of their children career, life and destiny. They are the pillar that uphold families and we cannot wish them away. Remove their impacts, family is reduce to nothing.
Modernist, feminist and modernization of motherhood has robbed us a great value and heritage of motherhood and until we go back to the beginning and revisit all the values, norms and social expectations that gave us a good beginning as a people, family and society, we will continue to grope in day as if we are in the darkness.
We need to be concerned and bemoaned the various abuses women and girls are being subjected to in Nigeria.
Mother was one of the greatest gifts to humanity. I agreed but our mother must rise beyond their traditional role and form an alliance on how protect little and innocent girl child and teenagers that are being subjected to various pains, suffering, abuses, molestation, assaults, trafficking, rape, abduction and exposure to wrong values and immoralities.
What do we teach our children matters, especially the girl child, the values systems we exposure them has indelible impact on their lives, career, job, family and what they will turn to tomorrow, because they cannot give what they don’t have. The mothers of tomorrow cannot be mothers if they don’t have what it takes now.
It is high time all our mothers and grandmothers redirect their passion, interest and energy towards a purposeful ventures, and investment as regard raising godly and enviable children for our nation tomorrow.
Wasting all your finances on Aso-ebi, fake Brazilian hair, Owanbe party, and other unproductive and feeble issues will not only wreck us but exposes our inadequacy and failure tomorrow.
We are losing a whole generation, we are gradually experiencing total degradation and erosion of value and our pride as a community of people. Make hay while the sun is still shinning and except we understand the danger we tends to face by allowing the opportunities of training, coaching, modelling and mentoring this generation of people that is on their way already to perdition, we would not be able to do something meaningful now.
It is time to rise and fulfil our social responsibility of raising godly children, raising leaders for the society and nation. More importantly nurture and protect them. Never must we leave our children and teenagers to chance.
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