By Gladys Chania
(Gladys Chania is a Child and Adult psychologist. She is the director Right@Home Rehab Centre in Thika)
The recent events in our entertainment scene have raised more questions than answers.
They paint a grim picture of a nation headed for an abyss.
I am not a moral police per se, I am simply a youth mentor who is passionate about seeing the community grow as a result of making quality and informed decisions.
However, in as much as I support talents as a way to build better lives, on what happened recently with one of our female musicians down at the coast, I cannot support it at all.
I have never met her in person; therefore, I have no personal vendetta on her but with her actions, she should desist counting herself as a role model.
Every talent needs national values infused at the formative stage. We cannot create talents to be a channel or agents of moral decay in this country.
Talents need to be confined to integrity, equity, national unity, human dignity and patriotism. It's on these values that characters are shaped.
Values are entrenched as the basic guiding concepts for anyone using a public platform to entertain. In short, proper values guide on what to do and what shouldn’t be done on stage.
Infiltrating immorality, nudity and obscene messages in music or other forms of talents make people to shun being involved or supportive.
Sober adults do not want their children to be involved in talents that portray a deteriorating value system.
Our colleagues in the entertainment industry should know that good values have a ripple effect on their influence and lifestyle.
Their influence should be so powerful that it should be used an emblem to shape the social foundations for the nation for better cohesion as talents bring people together.
As a nation, let's not watch as our social fabric continues to wear out. Let us all do something to stop such eventualities from happening.
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