Revive reading culture, lawmaker urges

There is need to revive the reading culture to develop the country, Deputy Whip of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rotimi Abiru, has said. 

Abiru, who pointed out that parents and guardians, must educate their children and wards on the importance of reading, added that unless the knowledge base of kids is built, efforts to transform the nation would not yield results. 

The lawmaker, at an interactive session with House Correspondents in Lagos, said pupils these days derive much pleasure from listening to music than reading books.

According to him, for our nation to develop, we must as a matter of urgency revive and start to promote our reading culture right from our homes, up to the primary, secondary schools and higher institution of learning. 

“If you listen to most of the music that some of our youths are listening to these days, you will agree with me that some of the songs are capable of corrupting their minds and corruption starts from the mind.  

“A lot needs to be done in our music industry because most of the songs they release into our market daily are not pleasant to the ears. So, if nothing is done to address this issue, it will cause a major disaster to our nation. These youths who are listening to some of these songs are the future of this great nation, so we must find a way of bringing back that reading culture as an alternative to all these obscene songs,” said Abiru.

He, however, called on President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly, to as a matter of urgency, sanitise the music industry to ensure  that proper songs that will educate the minds of the youths are released into the market.
by Oziegbe Okoeki(The Nation) 

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