The Speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Mr Samuel Ikon, has commended the National Orientation Agency (NOA) for promoting ethical values among Nigerians.
Ikon made the commendation in Uyo while declaring open a one-day “Roundtable on Ethics First; Doing the Right Thing’’ organised for the staff of the House in collaboration with NOA in the state.
He stressed that the “Fresh Air agenda’’ of the government would succeed and sustained if the people would imbibe the philosophy of “doing the right thing at the right time” in the country.
He called on the citizens to allow their cherished values to propel them to good governance, guided by the rule of law with legitimate power to regulate the administrative machinery of the government.
Ikon, who was represented by the Chairman, House Committee on Information and Ethical Re-orientation, Mr Effefiong Antigha, regretted that some Nigerian youths had involved themselves in politics of hatred, armed robbery, cultism, fornications and disrespect to constituted authorities.
“If we must remain great, ethics must be given prominence by inculcating in ourselves the positive values and principles that are universally accepted in politics and economic practice for all other things to be added unto us as a nation,’’ he said.
He advised NOA officials to continue to raise public awareness on the nation’s core ethics and values.
Earlier in his address, the state NOA director, Mr Aniefiok Esetang, said that his agency decided to collaborate with the House in mounting the workshop in appreciation for “the good works so far done by the Assembly members’’.
Esetang explained that the objectives of the workshop were not only to “discover and develop’’, but to share and sustain the core values that would ensure that Nigeria achieved its full potential.
About 50 participants took part in the workshop.
