By Mercy Nahnyoung Kusi
It is
shameful. It is unbelievable. Yet, it is factual that indecency in the
university milieus in Cameroon
is now very common. If you doubt this, then take a walk around varsity campuses
or students’ residential quarters around the country and see for your self how
indecent and immoral some varsity students especially girls have become.
In the name of fashion or some hidden motive, they
dress to “kill.” And sooner or later, womanizers- young men, fathers and
grandfathers- fall for them. How cheap some men can be.
But how do
these young girls dress? They deliberately-with commercial intention, wear
dresses that expose their sensitive body parts such as breasts, laps, navels,
and even buttocks. Indeed, some female students have chosen, as their way of
life, to always wear but transparent clothes. Why? This is to permit men to see
through and get aroused.
Apparently
conscious that men get sexually excited by sight and women by touch, by
dressing half-naked these self-seeking girls are indirectly inviting men for
coitus mainly in exchange for money and other material things. How
materialistic the world has become! How sexually immoral many girls and women
have become! Even men too.
According to
the Oxford Advanced Learners’ dictionary, indecency is defined as any act or
behavior that is obscene or improper. By this it refers to any habit, dressing
style or mannerism in society that sets tongues wagging.
Nowadays,
especially in the university area, you find reckless alcohol consumption by
mostly by students, indecent dressing and odd dating habits. These poor habits
have forced some well-cultured and elderly people to wonder if universities are
institutions with unlimited freedom.
Frightened
by these poor habits around university milieus, you could now hear parents
vowing not to send their beloved young girls to universities. They are afraid
they will get spoilt.
Universities
are supposed to be training grounds for good learning and behavior. But some
children deceive their parents to send them there, and when their poor parents
make all the sacrifices to get them enrolled there, the students become wayward
.Some of them stay away from classes for up to a month without any convincing
justification;then,you find them in bars, hotels and parties in the name of
living their lives.
Excited and
or poor female students go the extra mile of selling their bodies to men, some
old enough to be their fathers and grand fathers. They argue that they want to
meet up with their wants. I call them wants because most of these girls before
leaving their respective homes are provided with their basic needs such as
pocket allowance, house rents, and food stuff.
I have found
out that the growing spirit of materialism and love for easy –come money are making
young people- especially women, mad.
Young women,
why not discipline your selves and study hard to become successful women in society.
Men especially students, are now scammers,
defrauding people and companies in and out of country simply to spend on cheap
women and to support their seemingly
luxurious lifestyles. How are
students in this category going about their courses? Even if some of them claim
that with money they can buy their degrees, let them be informed that if they
succeed to buy, when they act, it will not reflect the level of qualification
they claimed to have attained.
The efforts
of the University of Buea(UB), the place to be, in checking indecency must be
saluted here .It is heart-warming to learn that the Administration of
University of Buea has launched a war against indecency. Visiting the university,
one finds the institution’s security agents checking and stopping those who are
indecently dressed.
Shouldn’t
other varsities or institutions of higher learning in the country emulate the
example of UB in combating indecency?
Parents and
guardians are strongly advised to make their children cultivate only good
habits, and be advocates of decency, morality and probity. They should warn
their children against joining bad associations, because bad associations spoil
good habits.
The Bible in
Proverbs 19:18 advises: “Discipline your children while they are young enough
to learn. If you don’t, you are helping them to destroy themselves”
No matter
how we are, we are all children of some parents.
The Bible
advises children to obey their parents in order to live longer and happier.
Fighting indecency is a collective responsible.
First published in The RECORDER Newspaper ,Cameroon,of February 17,2012
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