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The Inquirer (Monrovia)
November 3, 2006
Posted to the web November 3, 2006
"The nation is guilty of abusing its youths, exploiting their innocence and depriving them of a future of promise and nobility, "says Labor
Minister Samuel Kofi Woods.
Minister Woods said the generation upon whose shoulders the future of Liberia can be guaranteed has been disappointed.
Speaking at the 37th Celebration of National Youth Day held in Ganta, Nimba County recently, the Liberian labor boss said, "I am sad to say, I
am shame today to say that my verdict for Liberia relative to our youths is a guilty one."
The youthful Minister said, " we have brought nothing but shame and disgrace to ourselves. We have promoted distorted values, decadent
political leadership, brutal arrogance, greed and unrepentant corruption"
Minister Woods told the audience that Liberians have promoted vanity over virtue and sheer indifference to the plight of our young people.
The labor Minister who is a veteran advocate of rights said it is the reckless investment that brought Liberia to the brink of its self-destruction
and chaos.
Minister Woods noted that Liberia has experienced moral decay in all of its most cherished institutions, such as the family, religious
institutions and the state.
Touching on the family, Minister Woods said, " I was taught that the family is the basic unit of society, it is the anchor upon which society is
stabilized but it has suffered severe decay over the years."
Minister Woods said "Parents and children now compete in the streets for a survival using means that dehumanize and degrade their moral
rectitude."
He said poverty and lack of self-pride have degraded parents and therefore, they cannot command the respect of their children "Boys have
become men attempting to fulfill the obligation of men, while girls, desperately strive to do the same as their male counterparts.
"Our mothers are competing with their daughters for the same lovers. Our fathers are chasing the same girls their sons chase. Marriages are
disintegrated because of the widespread divorce and abandonment. Daughters and sons are asked by their parents to attend to lovers in
acts of adultery and fornication. The anchor of our society is defective and has disintegrated."
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