The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has urged parents to instill family values in their children as a way to save the country from degeneration.
The minister made the call at the weekend in Kaduna, during a stakeholders’ engagement with 77 district heads, religious and community leaders from the 23 LGAs of Kaduna State.
“We are calling the attention of parents that we have failed our children, in the sense that the kind of values we used to have is no more. We need to remind ourselves that our children need to be upright and that this criminality going on, on a daily basis, is not for their benefits and the benefit of the state and country”, she stated.
Mrs. Ahmed told the stakeholders that the Federal Government has created a N75 billion entrepreneurship support fund, to enable youths in the country grow their businesses and be economically independent.
The minister explained that the fund would support the youth to actualize their innovative and entrepreneurial ideas, be productive and employers of labour and expressed her appreciation of the efforts by the Kaduna state government in managing security issues in the state.
Also speaking at the event, the Minister of Environment, Dr. Muhammad Mahmud, called for collective efforts to tackle the security challenges in the country.
