Lagos- Mrs Olubunmi Abikoye, the Chairperson, Lagos State Women’s Wing of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), on Thursday blamed the nation’s challenges on lack of motherly care and proper upbringing of children.
Abikoye said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
She decried the rate at which most Nigerian women place high priority on their businesses at the expense of their homes.
She advised mothers to create adequate time for their children and wards, irrespective of their careers, adding that doing so would help to raise healthy and contributory adults that would secure the future of the country.
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“All of us, we are running helter-skelter because the bad boys have grown up and now they are tormenting the lives of innocent Nigerians.
“Things are getting crippled everyday because the mother is not there to take care of the child, and now the child had grown up to become hoodlum, to become whatever that is troubling the nation now.
“I think, we need to sit down on a round-table and address this issue squarely.
“They say `charity begins at home`, it is because they trained those leaders of Nigeria today that they were able to perform as leaders.
“If their parents abandoned them when they were young, I wonder what the nation would have been.
“So, we should look back and correct what we need to correct now before the thing gets out of hand.
“And, that is why we are saying, `No women, No Nation`. Women in Nigeria should rise up to our challenge. This is a challenge to all of us.
“The women should spend more time with their children at home so that they can train them and lead them to the right way whereby the nation too will enjoy them in future.”
