A Group, Nigerians In Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) in the UK has lamented that dangerous parenting pushed some Nigerian youths to prisons within the UK.
This was simply because the Organisation revealed that Nigerians in the UK are greater than 5 million in inhabitants.
The Chairman of the Group, Mr. Niyi Zaccheus made this identified to Tribune On-line by way of a phone name yesterday.
Mr. Niyi defined that almost all dad and mom come to the nation with a money-making mindset on the detriment of their youngsters’s upbringing.
The Chairman urged them to disabuse that mindset as a result of the youngsters would discover the choice they’re supposed to supply elsewhere.
He described the present state of affairs within the nation as reversed parenting the place dad and mom turn into youngsters whereas the youngsters turn into dad and mom.
Zaccheus, subsequently, revealed that the Organisation established a Particular Duties Committee made up of pros from completely different walks of life going into Prisons. “Now we have a whole lot of Nigerian Youths which have gone there due to psychological sicknesses, medicine and so forth and so forth. We need to go in there and alter their perspective for them”.
“Sadly, why are they in jail? Principally parenting. All as a result of most dad and mom that come to this nation have the mindset of earning profits and overlook the youngsters.
“It doesn’t work like that as a result of in the event you don’t present options for the youngsters they’d search for one themselves.
“Some dad and mom additionally want parenting. What we came upon is that the dad and mom have turn into the youngsters whereas the youngsters have turn into the dad and mom. And it’s so painful.
“Now we have a Particular Duties Committee. Now we have finetuned it with Immigration and UK Visa Division and House Affairs in order that we will unfettered entry to the younger ones within the prisons after we go to.
“Psychologists amongst us shall be serving to in that committee. The Membership now’s over 300 and we’re nonetheless getting extra as we’re as much as a thousand earlier than the top of the 12 months.
“As it’s now, Nigerians in the UK shouldn’t be lower than 5 million. We’re all over the place simply title it- NHS and so on. We’re very industrious folks. We occupy juicy positions in the UK,” he mentioned.
The Chairman suggested Nigerians leaving Nigeria to rethink, sounding warnings to folks who, in accordance with him, suppose it’s pension assured when their baby travels to the UK.
Mr Zaccheus admonished the Federal Authorities to resume the hope of Nigerians by offering the mandatory infrastructural amenities for them to stay like their counterparts overseas.
“We have to rethink this ‘Japa’ factor. Some dad and mom suppose it’s pension assured when their baby goes to the UK. No. It doesn’t work that means. Your baby coming in right here doesn’t imply your baby will do nicely. There are some youngsters who can not thrive with no supervision of their life. That’s the reason a few of them begin promoting medicine and getting themselves indulged in social vices.” He mentioned
“The Authorities has to offer us hope. From what we will see now, there isn’t a hope. The truth is, many Nigerians are hopeless now.
“So, the federal government has to get up and provides us people-friendly insurance policies that will make us take a look at the longer term. Nigerians ought to a minimum of have an concept of when that is going to finish,” he mentioned
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