Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu yesterday marked Father’s Day by helping out in church as the Chief Mass Servant at the St. Paul Catholic Church in Benin City.
Shaibu, who described a godly home as the best way to get at the root of the problems of insurgency and kidnapping in the country, said: “A father or leader should not say or do in secret what he cannot own up to in public because nothing is secret. If we can act as St. Joseph in the Bible, then the issues of insecurity will be history in Nigeria.
“We must continue to build a bottom-up society in which parents draw strength from their homes just as leaders draw power not from themselves or even their office but the masses.
“As a government, we will continue to create opportunities for wealth creation through the necessary infrastructural facilities that will enhance commercial activities in the state.’’
According to him, the Governor Godwin Obaseki administration had been engaged in the implementation of developmental programmes to enhance the economic status of parents and would continue to empower parents to enable them to take care of the needs of their children.
