Ofonagoro, Obiozor Task Nigerians on Values of Rotary Club

A former Minister of Information, Professor Walter Ofonagoro and the former Director General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Professor George Obiozor, have stated that the centrifugal forces buffeting the Nigerian federation would abate as soon as the country begins to cultivate the moral code for personal and business relationships embedded in the Four Way Tests of the Rotary Club International (RCI).

These moral codes asked for the truth, fairness, cultivation of goodwill and friendship that would be beneficial to all concerned.

They made this claim at the weekend during the investiture ceremony of the 36th President of the Rotary Club of Ikoyi, Mr. Dike Obih.

Ofonagoro, who was the chairman of the occasion, summarised the Four Way Test as truth, justice, fairness and equity, and said: “These are the only thing that will strengthen the Nigerian federation. If Nigeria will have fairness, equity, truth and justice everything else will fall in place.”

The retired Professor of History, who pioneered the study of Economic History of Nigeria at the University of Lagos, emphasised the need for the country and every Rotarian to rediscover these values and base all their actions on them.

He traced his relationship with the RCI from 1963 when he was an undergraduate student in Toronto, Canada, to 2002 when the Rotary Club of Enugu awarded him the Paul Harris Fellow, noting that the Rotary is one of the elite clubs.