The Kaduna Sex Party and Public Morality: How About we Build Rather Than Destroy? -By Saliu Momodu

In recent years, it has become too easy to behold the dangerous low to which public morality has plummeted around here.

You encounter the naked and grim reality all over the places you go nowadays: in the homes, in our schools and campuses, in worship/religious centers and in the streets – needless to mention the television and the internet. I suffered the misfortune one day to have bumped into a video of two prepubescent girls making out in a classroom in broad daylight to the applause and cheers of their other school mates and colleagues in uniform.

We’ve seen clips of former Governors, university lecturers and other top personalities as they get exposed while in seriously degrading and morally compromising situations.

It gets worse and more alarming when more and more of our younger and innocent children are deliberately being targeted and recruited onto this way of life that would definitely pervert their personality, endanger their physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual well being.

To those who care to restore any semblance of sanity and morality back to society, there are better, far-reaching and effective means to employ. What we need do is beyond something as lazy as knocking down a building that was rumored as the slated venue for a nude/sex party.

We need education and exemplary leadership at all levels. We need to prohibit illicit and lewd forms of music, songs and other so-called entertainment. We have to help families to once again be cool, calm and collected. We have to encourage women to stay home and take care of their children and wards with the love, compassion and emotions necessary. We have to employ only qualified, trained, motivated, disciplined and responsible teachers to support the enormously difficult task of parenting. Our children should learn and appreciate child-friendly activities for play, amusement and entertainment instead of the garbage we currently stuff down their throats to defile their innocence. We, together with our children must relearn the stories of the monkey and the lion; the tortoise and the hare; the mouse and the cat, along with the virtues of honesty, courage, sacrifice, modesty, dignity and hard-work they seek to communicate and imbue.

Government on it’s part must ease the stranglehold on parents and citizens that has turn everyone into a money seeking machine thereby having people compromise so much on ethics, values, culture, tradition and morality. Our clergy must enshew vain prosperity sermons that puts faithfuls in a heedless quest for materialism.

The job to fix our current abysmally low moral rating isn’t mechanical nor is it legalistic. You have to truly love and care for our children to want to genuinely protect them from harm’s way. This isn’t just about so-called consenting adults exercising their rights, but it’s also about many children and young adults with whom we share common spaces in this increasingly precarious society. We can’t hire, employ and deploy lewd and profane music and entertainment for our social and political campaigns only to make a sanctimonious show of knocking down buildings wherein same was to be put to practice. How can we forget so quickly that the debauchery this nude party represents is the very pervasion we have for so long condoned and promoted in society? Moreover, I hardly expect anyone to think that what the organizers and proponents of this party wanted to stage would be radically different from what we already see, hear and celebrate over public television and radio as lyrics and art forms. Besides, demolishing a building has to mean something only if that is what any existing law has stipulated, and only if some targeted person hasn’t simply been stigmatized and victimized extrajudicially.

The law must not only be obeyed and followed, it must be seen to so be the case.

Our schools have failed and still failing us, our media has failed and continue to fail us.

Rape is rife, child sexual abuse, marital dissolution, drug abuse, violent crime and a host of other anti-social manifestations are intricately linked to the failure to raise a morally balanced population as we see before our very eyes today. Even the food we consume and with which we feed our children is fast becoming too unnatural and unwholesome for the healthy growth of body and mind.

We face a grave threat ahead which however is summountable. To succeed therefore is to safeguard ourselves and our children in body, mind and spirit.

Let’s be reminded again that money, fame and pleasure aren’t everything in life, and even when they happen to take preeminence, their is a time, place and manner for everything.

Saliu Momodu
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