He said the education of children must initiate at home and cannot be left entirely to schools.
“Education, moral education, starts from the home,” he said, emphasising that parents must take responsibility for the values and examples they transmit to their children.
He moreover expressed problem concerning the declining employ of indigenous languages within young Nigerians.
According to him, language is closely joined to culture and identity, and children should be encouraged to attention and speak their native languages.
The palace, he said, has an key responsibility to preserve Nigerian, African and Yoruba heritage and to provide as a moral compass for the viewers. Roheemat Adeyemi; Professor Gabriel Babawale and Professor Bridget Awosika
“It is so decisive that our role is formally not just recognised but moreover given the right responsibility and accountability in the Constitution,” Oba Matemilola said, adding, “That path, we are able to complement the efforts of the founded political arrangement.”
According to him, founded rulers persist closest to the people and are frequently relied upon when communities encounter crises, disputes or social disturbances.
Even politicians, he noted, repeatedly turn to royal fathers when they require assist resolving difficult situations at the grassroots.
Oba Matemilola traced the roots of the institution to the pre-colonial period, when African societies had organised systems of governance involving monarchs, chiefs and councils.
Colonial administration and subsequent political developments, he observed, gradually diminished the conventional responsibilities of accepted rulers.
He said the difference amid political officeholders and monarchs was moreover big, saying elected officials operate in defined terms, although monarchs may persist linked to their communities for decades.
This continuity, he argued, gives usual institutions a enduring-term outlook on network development and social stability.
Beyond governance, the monarch stressed the importance of conventional institutions in preserving culture, language and moral values. Nevertheless, he stressed that traditional rulers themselves must demonstrate the values they look for to protect.
“When you have a monarch, a royal father or a director who begins to misbehave and exhibits the incorrect moral values, such a individual is not environment the right case,” he said, noting that children and population members regularly look up to identified leaders as role models.
Reflecting on founded African education, Oba Matemilola contrasted the communal approach of the past alongside what he described as the increasingly individualistic character of contemporary education.
Traditionally, he said, raising a child was regarded as a collective responsibility as neighbours could correct a child and describe the behaviour to the parents, reinforcing a shared sense of responsibility.
He consequently advocated an education structure that combines academic knowledge using culture, language, people responsibility and moral command.
For Oba Matemilola, strengthening the association between the family, school, government and founded institutions is necessary to rebuilding a community in which people look later than one another.
The timeless institution remains an key connect betwixt government and the society at the grassroots and should be formally recognised in Nigeria’s Constitution, a earliest class Yoruba understood ruler, the Olowu of Owu Kingdom in Abeokuta, Ogun Declare, Oba Professor Saka Adelola Matemilola, has said.
The monarch argued that settled rulers should not merely be accorded ceremonial recognition but should have explicitly defined responsibilities and accountability during the constitutional framework.
Such a framework, he said, would support settled institutions to complement the settled political structure.
He spoke during the Professor Toyin Falola Interview Collection tagged, “A Conversation alongside HRM, Alayeluwa, Oba Professor Saka Adelola Matemilola, PhD, FNSE”.
It was anchored by Professor Falola along Dr.
Source: Nigeria’s traditional institutions must be formally recognised in constitution – Monarch
