Looking back at my invitation, to speak to a cross section of youths/adults, [who were] undergoing paramilitary training a possibility of a sort of reorientation that should prepare them for Public Leadership [Character],recently - on the first Saturday, in February 2020.
I started by saying [to whoever cared to listen and adhere], to my listeners: Character is the missing item from the world. Man hurts man because previous values of past centuries are relegated, and thrown away like a baby and it's bath water. Lying has become a norm to most societies of the world.
No one is queried about the source of riches acquired. Leaders in nations are busy manipulating the constitutions of their nations in order to sooth their corrupt practices and impunity.
The legal courts we used to know as reliable home of justice has lost it's judiciary-credibility and values, because politicians have bought the conscience of judges.
This why [I believe], citizens throw caution to the wind by flaunting constituted laws. Parents are not left out of this character lacuna, hence they have equally thrown caution to the wind, as a result; such holistic breakdown of laws and values has metamorphosed into juvenile delinquency, hence you commonly here of teenagers committing suicide, drug abuse, cultism, gangsters, and other social vices!
Such character-pandemics, ravaging the world, especially, affected by Africa and by Africans it is the precursor for this book-Character Driven Life!
Make up your mind [to join in waging war against this pandemic], before it degenerates [even to your own detriment]!