LG Rhythms Foundation, a non profit-making organization, has canvassed for the reinvention of love as a tool for addressing the growing spate of crime and other forms of injustices in the society, maintaining that if this is done, the conflict and developmental challenges being witnessed in the world today would fizzle out in no time.
The Foundation spoke in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Saturday, during its 2021 retreat of ‘A decade of impacting lives and relief to the people.
The Guest Speaker, Dele Farotimi, asserted that how each member of the society hadn’t spent time productively impacted negatively on the society as a whole.
Farotimi, while talking about the vitality of time as a major determinant of results that people get, made reference to books of Titus, chapter one, and Acts of Apostle, chapter 17 verse 23 of the Holy Bible, as well as the Yoruba ‘Odu Ifa.’
“I sought to tie this to how we failed to spend our time consciously well. If you came to Ibadan from Lagos today, you would have spent a minimum of three to four hours in the traffic to be here. Is there a judicious use of time in that?” But sadly, he said, “we have normalised it. It has become normal to spend a whole day travelling on that road.
“How does that impart on your capacity to parent your child as a father or mother, to be a provider or to be a citizen? These are the kinds of questions we should be asking ourselves as Nigerians not all these superficial questions we sometimes ask ourselves,” he said.
In an interview at the sidelines of the programme, the President and Founder of LG Rhythms Foundation, Dr Titus Adeniyi Ale, stress the need to reinvent love into the Nigerian society.
“At LG Rhythms Foundation, we are trying to project the fact that application of love will solve any problem in human society. The injustice, inequality and bitterness in the world could be settled in an atmosphere of love.
“If neighbouring countries offend each other, taking into consideration the fact that the people have blood flowing in their veins, why should I exterminate them with bullets? Let it go; be at peace with your brother. It is when we don’t allow love to reign in our hearts that somebody would seek to hurt the other. People would have millions or billions in their account without thinking of others. That is wrong.”
Dr Michael Adelusi, Chairman, LG Rhythms Foundation Committee, said that “We are a group of ladies and gentlemen. The word rhythm is to show the bond of love and living. We are 10years old by this convention. Dr Ale saw, some years back, that the world is drifting apart. He came with the conviction that love could bring us together. It started in Ibadan.
“He expressed that fact with the group and through the group, we began to send the message to the entire world using our model to bring people of all classes, races and religions together without minding the varying backgrounds.”
As part of its 10th anniversary, the NGO held old school night party, visited the School for the Deaf in Ibadan to pay the students’ NECO examinations fees, and distributed exercise books at Saint John’s School, Akanran.
