LASDRAP to reinstate moral values, as competition hits finals

TO redirect and educate the minds of Nigerian youths using drama, Clear Solutions Consulting Limited in collaboration with Lagos State Ministry of Education (MOE) has maintained that societal values will be restored in the country through the Lagos State Secondary School Drama Project (LASDRAP).The project in which the four qualified schools would be competing for the final crown today, was established with the aim of repositioning the rich core moral values in the country which is believed to be on a steady decline due to unnecessary exposures in the film and movie industry.Speaking at a briefing, held at MOE, Alausa, the organizer, Mr. Babatunde Rajh-Label insisted that Nigerian youths have virtually gained nothing in about 90 per cent of films they have seen due to lack of positive inspiration, culture and educative lines.'All these have been lost in the search for monetary gains by film producers, what they record in their memory is nudity, infatuations, unrealistic story lines and rituals. The implication is that our cherished rich core moral values have been lost, and this has made highly disciplined religious parents to restricts or ban completely the seeing of films irrespective of the content.''The quest for using what our children love to watch, as an education and communication tool, gave birth to LASDRAP. We need to redirect our youths to the path of moral values in conformity with our societal norms; we want to raise a new set of generation of students that will use drama as education itself. They remember visual arts more than audio particularly when it is performed by them,' he stated.Gbagada Grammar School, Somori Comprehensive High School, Ifako Ijaiye, Lagos State Model College Kanko, Badagry, and Ikeja Senior High School, will today compete for LASDRAP finals with the theme: 'Protection of the Girl Child,' at Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, by 9.00am, having scaled the hurdles at preliminaries, primaries, zonal and semi finals.'The project has enabled the re-introduction of theatrical practice and stage performance in secondary schools, aided the establishment of functional drama troupe in schools, encouraged those willing to pursue a career in theatre, educate the youths on governmental policies and programmes and also used what the children like (movies) to reach and educate them on moral, social vices and other issues,' Rajh-Label said.
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