Lagos-based Ferscoat International Group of Schools in a series of enlightenment seminars has continued to lay solid foundation for its students in sexual relationship and the need for purity.
In the seminar with the topic ‘teenage sexuality and relationship’ held last Friday in the school premises at Olude Ipaja, Lagos State, the resource persons – president of Sexual Purity Campaign Initiative Reverend Ebenezer Diyaolu, and Sister Marcel Royal – enlightened the students on what the future holds for them if they embrace a life of purity which begins from their time in school as teenagers before getting into higher institutions and getting into the larger society as adults.
The school principal Frederick Opata explained that the aim was to enlighten the students on the dangers involved in early sex and relationship, adding that the seminar was to prepare the students for the responsibilities which await them as future leaders prepared to know what is expected of them by the society.
While charging the students to take every stage of the seminar serious, Mr Opata said that the investment on them by the school was meant to make them better leaders tomorrow, a shining example to the society at large and their respective families.
The facilitators gave the students a better understanding of how to maintain a mutually beneficial relationship for them as students which may lead to a glorious future as individuals and as a family.
Giving specific instances, Diyaolu especially cautioned the boys on acts of violence against the girls while in school which, unknown to them, may lead to criminal prosecution of the offenders and may affect their plans of pursuing a glorious career in life after their secondary school education.
He gave them examples of acts which can be classified as violent and which the society classified as rape against the girl-child and which the judicial system also recognises as crime punishable by law and condemned by the society.
Beyond relationships in school, the facilitators also encouraged the students to look forward to a cordial relationship with neighbours outside the school system, the environment and within other areas of endeavours.
