AKINJIDE KAZEEM AKINOLA — Marking the Childrens’ Day on every 27th of May has been significant in the life of these children, we and the global communities are celebrating. These children are the pillar of our society, and one reason there is a need for proper support and guidance to reshape the future knocking at our doorstep.
Reflecting on many occurrences surrounding the growth and development of these young and innocent children, there is a kind of palpable fear, concern, worry and in all, feeling prosperous about them. Their growth is beyond the imagination of many, but only God know how He plans and does it. Parents are only guiding the process.
One of the key things to shape and reshape these children is education. Not only in mentoring, but in making it available and accessible through the provision of the needed resources.
And on reflection, it is the responsibility of the government to do all the mentioned processes. But still, education has gone beyond a consuming commodity, it is now an investment which requires the involvement of stakeholders as there are many ways their involvement can ensure the envisioned future.
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Akinjide Kazeem Akinola’s involvement in educational development of his federal constituency is one of the core yardsticks in ensuring social security, and which is a bane of our society at present.
It is important to know that these children are of class, just like the one available in the larger society. We have the VIP, high, medium and low level. But interestingly, those in the medium class, or say mostly, low are left unattended to, unsupported and leading to their vulnerability to constitute threats to our social settings due to their inability to access formal education, or alternatively, informal one.
Akinola’s initiative of supporting the prospective JAMB students in Egbeda/Ona-Ara Federal Constituency every year has been assessed to be in the right direction. It is highly motivated and worthy of recommendations for others in the ‘HAVE’ class of the society. It is obviously not the time to be looking at our society getting rotten, but the time to get involved in the very best capacity we all can.
Advancing the Akinola’s free JAMB form initiative for over 300 students is the organization of tutorial classes for the beneficiaries to prepare them for the journey, and financing their exposure to CBT training ahead of their exam further makes the package complete. Let’s give him his flowers. He deserves many thumbs up on that.
While at that, we must not shy away from talking to our children, orientating them, and allowing them see the brighter future ahead of their present inappropriate and wrong priorities orchestrated by peer influence and the immorality in the society. Those things have no place to sit in the future. Let’s enjoin them to set their priorities right. They’re the future we are looking at. They should not scare the present generation on whom they are leaving the future for.
While wishing them Happy Children’s Day, I am equally saying, they should buckle up and continue to make us proud on behalf of Hon. Akinjide Kazeem Akinola.
Akintunde Yusuf
Ward 1,
Erunmu, Ibadan
