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Leadership
Leadership

THE GENERATION THAT SAYS ENOUGH!

OUR CHILDREN DESERVE MORE

Chioma Phillips

ur children don’t de- choose to live like a good person, people who are not doing that (yet
serve this garbage that going around not causing harm to expect you to) are in some position
we are creating. It’s not other people, not being a source of of power or authority. It could be
Oon them to deal with it pain and conflict but building the a parent or relative, a friend of the
– it’s on us. “What garbage, Chio- kind of world – in your interactions family, a class prefect, your senior
ma?” you ask. with people – that you would want in school, a teacher, a head teacher,
for yourself. So, you do that until a pastor, a senior person at work, a
A world filled with injustice one day you bump into the per- policeman or the president of your
You’re born and you’re told the son or people who do not do that, country. And at whatever age or
things that a good person does and but keep expecting you to do that. stage of life you discover this jarring
does not do and you are urged to And, to your horror, the person or reality, your life is never the same

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