Character, your greatest asset, Bayelsa dep gov tells students
BAYELSA Deputy Governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has urged students to maintain good character and not to allow the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU) to lead them into anti- social activities, the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports.
Ewhrudjakpo gave the charge, yesterday, in Yenagoa, while granting audience separately to the National Union of Bayelsa State Students ( NUBSS) and Sagbama Council students from the Federal University, Otuoke.
He urged the students to pursue worthwhile goals capable of enhancing their learning and sound character in and out of school for a better future.
The deputy governor described studentship as a veritable foundation for the sustainable development of people and their society, adding that bad tendencies can destroy their bright destinies.
Ewhrudjakpo reminded the students that the greatest social assets of an individual are good character and integrity.
He said: “A bad character is like a flat tyre, which cannot take anyone far in life,” he said.
He charged the students to take their academics seriously and strive to become better than their parents and guardians.
According to him, students will be doing themselves and society good if they shun social vices, such as cultism, rape and drug abuse.
Ewhrudjakpo also urged students to tackle the menace from its roots by preaching the message of repentance to their undergraduate colleagues, who are into cult activities.
He said: “Your goal or proposal to go to secondary schools to campaign against cultism is quite laudable and noble. But I disagree with you on your target. You must first of all, remove the log in your eyes before you take away the spec in another person’s eye.
“Who are the people who go to initiate our children and your younger ones in secondary schools? Are they not from tertiary institutions? It is those of you who are cultists in the tertiary institutions that go about initiating the secondary school students into cultism.