By ABUBAKAR YUSUF

The Dean Management Sciences, Veritas University Abuja and Former Director General, National Broadcasting Commission NBC, Professor Armstrong Aduku Idachaba, said the erosion of family values, cultural dignity, and reorientation is lost, without the responsible use of social media platforms.

Professor Idachaba who is the Dean Management Sciences, Veritas University, Abuja gave the declaration during his presentation of a lead paper to mark the annual event held last week titled?Leveraging Information Communication Technology for Education and Employment Opportunities Among Igala Youths: Problems and Prospects?.

Idachaba who solicited a change of heart in deploying social media platforms to the public asked Igala youths, extraction to take caution and also suggested the need to impose sanctions against erring youths by elders, stakeholders and traditional rulers, as well as call their families to order.

He expressed worries over the unabated trend and damages the negative use of social media has caused, enjoining the Igala people to explore the positive side of social media as it is been done in other side of the world.

According to him, ?A very disturbing trend is the quantum of immoral and even vulgar content coming from especially Igala women ? who are supposed to be the epitome of our culture ? their content embarrassingly debasing.

?The first of an increasing debased morality is one early video of a girl who brazenly attacked men of ?Ofe ekpana? to get jobs. There is Georgina Edime ?promoting promiscuity before marriage ? and she is married ? ?epi kpai obu ? Epi Anyiga owo?. What in traditional Igala is elifo. There is also a seemingly deranged one called Unstoppable. She must be stopped for good of our youths.

?Our elders and traditional rulers must call them and their families to order.?

?Dean Management Sciences, Veritas University Abuja and Former Director General, National Broadcasting Commission NBC, Professor Armstrong Aduku Idachaba