The Nigerian government must actively integrate value for the life of its citizens in all facets of policymaking and implementation if the country is to make appreciable progress in attaining its corporate goals.
This was made known by the President Virtues Life Foundation and the convener Value for Life Conference, Alexander Faranpojo at a press briefing organized ahead of the launch of the Foundation on the 2nd of April, in Lagos.
According to him, “if you consciously try to aggregate all the data of violent deaths in Nigeria, you will realize that this is indeed an emergency which must be confronted frontally. It is no longer just an issue of requesting security agencies to identify culprits or prevent attacks. It must of necessity go deeper than that and become hard coded into the political, social and moral frameworks that govern our corporate existence as a nation,”.
He cited SBM Intelligence, a socio-economic research firm, stating that at least 10,300 Nigerians lost their lives in 2021 which represented a 47% increase over 2020’s figure of 7,063.
He stressed that more importantly, the government, as the ones saddled the most and as custodians of the duty for the lives of everyone within their borders, needs to build policy frameworks and effective coalitions that extract commitments and actions from all sectors of the society to fight this menace.