A multilingual Nollywood actor, Raphael Stevens, has appealed to stakeholders in the entertainment industry to help school children build core leadership values through their movies.

Stevens, also a motivational speaker, made the plea in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday.

According to Stevens, the major problem facing the country is leadership deficit, and the nation needs to build core leadership values in the upcoming generation to move forward and give hope.

“Our problem is leadership and it seems the older generation has failed. We must inculcate core values of leadership in this crop of students for them not to become a disappointment and disgrace to their generation.

“In my industry, we also fight ourselves because there are some movies that we actually produce that do not help children, moral wise and academic wise.

“So, we have kept fighting this thing; when we call something a home movie and you cannot watch with your children, then, there is a problem.

“In our capacity, we will try as much as possible to turn out more movies that will inculcate more positive moral values in these school children and not the ones that parents will not be proud of their children watching with them.

“There are some movies that when I am watching, I have to chase my children away, and we call them home movies, it is perpetually wrong,” Stevens said.

He said that on the side of entertainers, efforts should be made to help children, not because of today but because of tomorrow.

“We should try and make sure that we do things that will help these children, rather than those things that will distract or derail them from being good leaders in the nearest future,” the actor said.

He advocated free education for all children to give hope to the nation. ( NAN)

– Oct. 19, 2018 @ 16:55 GMT |