Private Car Ban: School Not A Place For Students To Exhibit Expensive Lifestyle, Sir Udensi Hails ABSU

Security expert, Sir Chikwe Udensi has commended the management of Abia State University, ABSU Uturu for its decision to ban the use of private cars in campus among students, saying such will reduce unbridled desire by other students to join the league of car owners through illicit means.

While insisting that illegitimate means of wealth acquisition has dominated the minds of young people in the society, Sir Udensi also expressed sadness over criminal activities such as ritual killings, internet fraud, kidnapping and other vices associated with getting rich through the back door among young people.

Speaking on a radio programme Open Parliament on Love FM Umuahia on Wednesday streamed live by ABN TV, Sir Udensi, a chieftain of APGA while backing the decision of ABSU added that there is need to censor what the children see, watch and hear.

He attributed the growing quest for quick wealth among young people to watch the watch in the movies, insisting that they are made to believe that one can become rich by taking another person’s organs.

He therefore urged parents and caregivers to teach their children and wards the difference between reality and made-believe.

“You saw the one that happened the other day where the private organs of an 8-year-old girl were taken and when the young man was asked his reason for such, he alluded to the fact that he believed he would make money by using people’s parts.

“This is a form of primitivity, it is lack of development of the brain to believe you can make money through using parts of human beings.

“Our children should be told that they can only make money through honest hard work because hard work pay. We need to imbibe in our children the need to work hard and get visible means of livelihood in the process of working hard. That it what it ought to be” he said.

He emphasized that the use of cars in schools has created some wild ostentation among the students, adding that it should not be encouraged.

The Abia governorship aspirant said students should concentrate in their studies and shun show of affluence while in campuses.

While however noting that car remains an essential means of transportation, Sir Udensi said there is nothing wrong in students who live far away from school transporting with private cars, adding that it should not be for purposes of showing off and ostentatious lifestyle.

“We have to realise that it is not only learning that is acquired in school. It also ought to come with character” he added.