BY PROVIDENCE OBUH

A GROUP, Association of Christian Schools International, ACSI, is seeking ways to restore values in the educational sector using Christian schools as platform.

The group, which concluded its second Sub-regional Roundtable for 2014, titled: Raising Godly Generation To Transform Nations, is an interdenominational body with a vision to promote Christian education, provide training and resources to Christian schools and educators resulting public.

Speaking at a media briefing in Lagos, ACSI Director for West Africa, Mrs. Adun Akinyemiju, said that the educational system in the last 35 years has degenerated, unlike what it used to be in the 19th Century when missionaries came and established schools which enjoyed cooperation and collaboration from local communities and government to ensure proper funding and effective administration.

According to her, “teachers were well trained and they came out devoted to their duties and graduates of such schools exhihibited Godly values and honesty, humility, diligence, sincerity and accountability.

Unfortunately, most of these products are now old and retired from work force and many have passed on. What we see today is greed, pride, lack of accountability on the part of the work force in all areas and at all levels, even among church leaders.

Also speaking, Africa Regional Director, ACSI, Mr. Samson Makhado, said, “it is for the sake of the Nigerian and the African child that we have put this together because we will change Africa if we can train our children in the right direction.

“The African continent is changing economically and moving towards the right direction  and Nigeria is one of the leaders, but if you look at this move and some of the things that are helping them with the move, you realise that if we don’t prepare the people who are going to take this move forward, we will not get there.

“Africa is changing economically but we cannot continue with corruption, paying lip service to administration, we cannot continue with people who are not leading us in the right direction. We need to prepare the next generation to take over from us. We can do that through Christian education to prepare to bring back and restore the values that we lost in African countries,” he said.