Hamzat advocates strong family ties to curb vices

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By Oyebola Owolabi

Lagos State Deputy Governor Dr Obafemi Hamzat has urged Nigerians to revive family values to reduce social vices.

Hamzat spoke yesterday at the annual Ramadan lecture organised by the Ansar-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria (ADSN) Lagos Branch in Ikeja.

The deputy governor noted that most vices were caused by a lack of proper family values resulting from improper upbringing.

He decried the trending inability of parents to stay together to train the children.

Such actions, he said, had increased the number of miscreants in the society.

Hamzat called on Nigerians to be their brothers’ keeper and revive the old culture of being parents to the motherless.

ADSN Lagos Branch Chairman Kamorudeen Salami said Ramadan called for sober reflection and closer to God.

National Missioner Sheik Abdur-Rahman Ahmad urged Nigerians to shun religious sentiment when electing people into political positions.

Ahmad said Muslims should no longer allow themselves be deceived and used to attain political offices.

According to him, competence, and not religious affiliations should be the determinant factor for people to be voted into political positions.

The missioner also called for equity in power-sharing, noting that every zone of the country has the right to the presidency.