The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed has come out to beg parents to instill family values in their children.

She revealed this recently in Kaduna during a stakeholders’ engagement with 77 district heads, religious and community leaders from the 23 Local Government Areas of Kaduna State.

According to her, this is the only way to save the country from degeneration as the kind of values we use to have are no more.

She added that our kids must remain upright as citizens because the current criminalities happening will not benefit the nation in any way.

His words, “We are calling the attention of parents that we have failed our children in the sense that the kind of values we use to have is no more.”

“We need to remind ourselves that our children need to be upright and that this criminality going on, on daily basis, is not for their benefits and the benefit of the state and country.”

On the violent protests, “These mob actions are unreasonable and intolerable,”

“As good citizens, it is part of our civic duty to support government in the development of the state.

“So, we need this interactions between the government, traditional and religious institutions that allow us to reason together.

“It is agreed that there are problems, but government is doing all it can to address them. I urge all on the need to join forces to save the society from those seeking to destroy it.

“This is a responsive government and we have listened to the demands of our people and are doing our best to address them.”