By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Youths have been assured by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) that they will gain positive values from the National Values Curriculum (NVC) being taught in schools.
ICPC Public Enlightenment and Education Director, Muhammed Baba, made the pledge at a meeting with the Ogun State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and other stakeholders in the education sector.
Baba explained that apart from the ICPC drawing up the NVC, it has taken measures to enlighten education stakeholders to embrace its value reorientation and resuscitation push which they are to transfer to children.
Inculcating positive values in children can be achieved by emphasising the 12 tenets of the NVC, he said, even though the NVC is not a special subject but one infused into subjects such as Civic Education, Social Studies, Business Studies, et cetera.
He listed the values to include honesty, discipline, justice, right attitude to work, and citizens’ rights and duties, national consciousness, contentment, courage, concern for others, family values, and traditional values.
Ogun SUBEB Chairman, Femi Majekodunmi, commended the ICPC for choosing the right time to seek value reorientation among youths given the loss of integrity which makes many to resort to prayers as the only solution.
Ogun SUBEB Academic and Social Services Director, Agbatiogun Jokotade, applauded the ICPC and underscored the importance of value resuscitation that will impact positively on the country.
She expressed the commitment the SUBEB to the establishment of ICPC’s Students Anti-Corruption Clubs in basic and junior secondary schools.
Ogun National Union Teachers (NUT) Secretary, Samson Oyelere, also commended the effort by the ICPC at “restructuring minds” and advised it to help strengthen institutions to minimise corruption.
