By Abbanobi -Eku Onyekachi
Abuja
As children in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) joined others nationwide to celebrate 2024 Children’s Day, women leader of FCT chapter, of the National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTs), Amb (Mrs) Rachael Adewumi has said the responsibility of bringing up childrem is a collective one and should not be left to an individual alone.
Adewumi made this known in Abuja on Sunday in solidarity with the Nigerian children who are celebrating their day on Monday. She said,t children’s proper upbringing and education, would not only give the country better leaders in the future, but a country that would compete favourably in every aspect of endeavor at the international stage.
Children’s Day is marked on the 27th of May in Nigeria every year, and this year’s theme is, “Protecting the Nigerian Child from the Dangers of Online Technology,”. This year event is sponsored in FCT by a software company, Sustemspec limited.
According to the sponsors, the essay will explore the students’ awareness of the vast opportunities for value and wealth creation, while also discussing the challenges digitization can bring. Participating students will be challenged to discuss ways to keep themselves safe from digital threats.
Hailing the SystemSpec for the good gestures, by sponsoring the essay competitions for school children across the country, Dr Rachael Adewumi therefore appealed to private and public companies, private and public organisations and corporate bodies to emulate the SystemSpec in encouraging children’s education through the essay competitions. She therefore observed that should others emulate the sponsors of the essay, the children and the country’s future will be very bright.
Based on the way the computer software company plans the essay completion, she continued, the children of the poor and the rich, will have equal opportunity to benefit from the competition, reiterating that such initiative will go a long way to not only encourage education, but also give the country the desired leaders everyone has been yearning for.
She said that on her own little way, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), the Takem Empowerment Initiatives which she is the president has over the time been training and empowering graduates. According to her, she picks them from the streets, train them in different trades and give them a starter pack, which according to her has gone a long way to help them.
Commending the government in power for having done a lot, both in education, among others, within its one year in office, the woman leader charged those in authority to do more in the area of children’s education. She noted that investing in children’s education, according to her, is the most important of all investments. She observed that should education be made affordable and qualitative, the sky, she went on, would be the country’s limit in the nearest future.
On the side of the parents, she beckoned them to join hands in giving their children sound education. Educated children, she noted, make a good family. The way things are now, she observed, leaving the children’s education to their father alone, or doing so by the father to the wife alone, won’t help mater. The best thing, she noted, is for the couple to join hands, do their best to give their children sound education. Amb. Rachael Adewumi observed that the happiness of every family is well educated children, who will take care of their parent at an old age and live after them, even as she urged the children to always obey their parents, saying that good parents won’t deceive their children.
