Taekwondo is sports with high moral value - Enugu Chairman

BY IKENNA OGBU / ENUGU

Chairman of Enugu State Taekwondo Association, Ebere Amaraizu, has said that Taekwondo is a sports with high moral value that transforms characters of the youth and build them to be future champions.

Amaraizu said this after his official Black Belt decoration ceremony in Taekwondo at the indoor sports hall of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu on Tuesday.

According to him, Taekwondo is not just a sports but a game with high moral code, values relevant for propagation of moral rebirth among youths and children.

Amaraizu, who is also the National Coordinator of Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), said that taekwondo as a game had so much values for our younger minds to thrive in the society.

He said, “Such virtues as integrity, perseverance, high moral code, honesty, integrity, indomitable spirit among others are found in taekwondo as a discipline and sports.

“I am pledging continual partnership between POCACOV and the Enugu Taekwondo School for continual propagation of these values and virtues for excellence and greater society.”

Earlier, the Grand-master of Enugu Taekwondo School, Grand-master Dennis Ani, while performing the black belt decoration rites on the recipient, charged him to continue to uphold the tenets of taekwondo with its high moral code for societal excellence.

Ani applauded the efforts of POCACOV with other relevant stakeholders in creating meaningful pathways and saving youths from the claws of membership of unlawful societies (cultism ) and organised criminal groups for a greater society.

He also appreciated the efforts of the Nigeria Police Force through POCACOV to help in educating youths and adults on dangers of cultism, substance and drug abuse as well as other vices.

It would be recalled that no fewer than 60 taekwondo kids from the taekwondo school were upgraded to their next belt with a charge to continue to uphold the tenets of the sports in line with Olympic values of excellence, respect and friendship.

Editor

Jude Ossai (JP) a veteran journalist is a National Diploma holder in Mass Communication from Ogwashi-Uku Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State. He also studied at Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Enugu and Imo State University, Owerri for his first and second degrees in Mass Communication, respectively. He writes extensively on politics, crime, corruption, climate change, healthcare, human rights, social justice, among others.