By Damilola Akinmolayan

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Parents have been enjoined to educate their wards on social vices and enlighten them how to be responsible.

This is even as religious organisations, institutions and security agencies were urged to continuously sensitize the public on moral decadence.

State Senior Special Assistant to Ondo State Governor on Women Affairs, Kehinde Adeniran and Special Assistant to the Special Adviser on Gender, Abimbola Adeleye gave the advice in an interview with The Hope.

Adeniran while decrying the rate of moral decadence in the country said it’s disgusting, scary and absurd.

She likened the recent happenings in the society to Sodom and Gomorrah, adding that the education of a child starts from  home.

According to her, “parents, religious organisations have a lot to do in this situation. The rate at which yahoo boys kill their girlfriends for money ritual is so alarming and outrageous.

How do you explain our female children going down  with animals in the name of dollars, or our female politicians disgracing themselves because of positions. It is high time all these vices were curbed”.

The SSA advised parents to be close  to their children because most mothers don’t have time for their children, all in the name of business and career.

“We should create good relationship  with  our children to enable them divulge any information to us, our children should be our friends,” she stated.

The Special Assistant to the Special Adviser on Gender, Abimbola Adeleye said “social vices are bad traits, unhealthy and negative behaviours that are against  modernity and frowned at by members of the society.”

Adeleye while noting that parenting was hardwork, advised parents to be  role models to their children and treat them with respect.

She said educational institutions should teach  students both academic and moral values of life.

“Religious institutions should continue to preach and sensitise the congregation on the need to be honest and upright in all endeavours of life. Community leaders should extol  virtue above monetary achievements.

“Government agencies such as the Police,  NDLEA should be proactive in curbing the menace of social vices by being at alert always. Non Governmental Organisations must continue to enlighten members of the public on the danger of embracing social vices”.

Also speaking, a nurse, Mrs Esther Oluwole said that the rate at which social vices were rising in Nigeria was  alarming.

She noted that indecent dressing, internet fraud, robbery, prostitution, drugs, cultism and a whole lot of them have become the order of the day among youths.

“Mothers have a whole lot to do. First, they should be their children’s best friends, so that they won’t be afraid to tell them anything. Educate them on their body parts, no matter how little they are, encourage them to report any form of sexual abuse or harassment from anyone as they are growing up.”