Positive aspects of life, moral, integrity, spiritual growth and uprightness formed the basis of the twelveth year anniversary of Chaplain Corps Policing Explorers CHAPOL, as students were exposed to series of trainings.
The program, which was in partnership with Pineleaf Estate and Properties Limited, featured the eleventh Annual CHAPOL Post Primary School Service Commission PPSSC conference on moral values for students of the 274 government secondary schools and selected private secondary schools in the state, and was themed “Equipping the youths for future leadership through moral and mental reformation”.
Addressing the gathering, the Commissioner For Education, Professor Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, said that the presence of the CHAPOL officers in the secondary school has continued to make positive impacts as they are helping to restore morals, directing their footsteps to achieve their life time goals, stating that Governor Chukwuma Soludo has created a conducive atmosphere for students to learn with free education and employment of smart teachers, telling the students to work hard to be good ambassadors of the society.
On her part, the Chairman, Post Primary School Service Commission, PPSSC, Professor Nkechi Ikediugwu, who was represented by Ambassador Anulika Adibe maintained that CHAPOL’s work in the state is commendable as they are instilling discipline, patriotism and leadership qualities in students across the state, pointing out that Governor Soludo’s visionary leadership has graciously provided an enabling environment for education to thrive.
The Chairman of the occasion, Archbishop Dr Onyekachukwu Nzekwesi, who frowned at the rate which the emergence of social media has ruined some people’s moral and mental reformation, stated that conference such as this impacts more; as students hear from those who have made it in life so as to run away from bad characters, corruption and never to associate with evil people, and encouraged parents to have a good rapour with their wards so as to monitor, mould, direct aright and channel their minds to positivity.
In an address of welcome, the State Commandant, CHAPOL, Dr Joseph Ekwunife, said driven by passion for value reorientation and total restoration of the moral compass of government secondary schools students, they go far and breadth of the state teaching, counselling and mentoring students through character reformation and equipping them for future leadership, thereby commending Governor Soludo for his bold steps in education sector, which has earn the state more.
Exposing the students on dangers of drug abuse, the State Commander, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Mr Charles Onubogu, who spoke through the Chief Superintendent of Narcotic, Mrs Priscilla Onyema, told them that abstinence from drug abuse is better than rehabilitation, hinting that drugs will make them loose focus on what they aim in life, kill their ambition, affect their mental health and have adverse consequences, reason they should abstain from drugs and anything related to it.
