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Youths have run out of role models

In the near future, our children will have no role models to look up to. Everyday we come across news on social ills committed by people, including parents and leaders. Three thirds of the news on TV is bad news; on corruption, murder and betting, and it is increasingly becoming impossible to get someone you can comfortably tell your child to emulate. 

People are engaging in all sorts of evil in their quest to get rich quickly. Our society is rotting fast. Even worse is that the President himself has surrendered the war against corruption. So who do we run to?

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