Chief Olufunke Arthur-Worrey, a 97 years former President of the Lions club, on Sunday said that the subsisting crave by Nigerians to seek greener pasture abroad otherwise known as Japa, was uncalled for as Nigeria and Nigerians were endowed with traits and resources to be better than countries overseas.
The Nonagenarian, also a former President of the International Women’s Society and Head of the Society’s Trustee, gave the assertion in an interview at her country home at the Adetokonbo Ademola, Lagos.
According to reports, the feminist activist, spoke on the state of the nation ahead of her 97 years anniversary by April 23.
She said that, the burden is on the Nigerian youths to make a resolve that would positively change the tides.
The Lagos Socialite, known as Aunty Funke, that relocated alongside her family from England to Nigeria in 1960, described England as good but Nigeria better, called on governments to create an enabling environment for Nigerians especially youths to actualise self.
The great ground mother, that looked sixties in her reflexives and composure, flashed back in her youth and Nigerias glorious days when people only go abroad to acquire education come back home to work for the development of the country.
According to her the passion for national interest was the sing-song as there existed among youths the health competetion to be the best in your career with zeal to come be home to domesticate that which one acquired to project national growth and development.
“Mind you the intention was to go acquire needed skills that was lacking here for national development and not to go there work and live forever that youths today have in mind.
“That aspect of our pre-independence national consciousness should be rekindled in our people with enablements, such as constant electricity, security, good road network, social security and entrepreneurship incentives.
“Our people like to acquire education, education should be made affordable to all so that our institutions the ivory centre of innovative research tailored to domestic social needs.
“The unique cultural heritage of Africans of communial lifestyle that is lacking in the western world should be mainstreamed as a social mobilisation strategy for people to internalise as national development cyatalast to be engraved in the minds,” she said.
The Charter member and former President of Ikeja Lioness Club now Ikeja Golden Lion Club, that relishes vacations in some Nigerian natural sites such as the Osogbo water fall the Jankari games reserve and others said the insecurity in the country aside from halting investment and revenues from the sector regretted that she like others no longer enjoy those again.
She noted that her teen days was much better than present teens as the had the whole community to look after them and correct any iota of child derailment in the bud.
She noted that with the population increase that government would not be able to create the needed jobs to absorb all unlike during her hey days.
She pointed that, government should espouse the creative ingenuity of Nigerian youths that has continued to make them attractive to the outside world create enabling environment for such traits to be deployed to gainfully engage people.
She said that with such development strategy amenities in place, jobs would be created people gainfully engaged and wealth created, the crave for traveling abroad would be halted.
It was reported that Arthur Worry is a Melvin Jones Fellow, the highest honour conferred by the International Association of Lions Clubs for commitment to philanthropic works and a District Governor Merit awardee.
Aunty Funke also holds the chieftaincy titles of: The Ayen Raguenghen Rovie of Ughelli Delta, the Ajoji of Badagry and the Otun Yeyegunwa of Ife.