Hearts Magazine: Greetings your Lordship! We are the members of the editorial board of the Hearts Magazine and we are pleased to have this privilege of being in your revered presence. May you he pleased to tell us about yourself?

His Lordship: I am Most Rev. Moses Chikwe, the Auxiliary Bishop of Owerri Archdiocese. I was born and raised here in Imo State, Uzoagha in Ikeduru. I am the last of 10 children of the family. I had my education at St Peter Claver Minor Seminary Okpala and from there proceeded to St. Joseph Major Seminary, Ikot-Ekpene. Thereafter, I went to Bigard Memorial Seminary Enugu for my theological studies. I worked for some time here in art the archdiocese especially with the press mi for about four and half years after my sel ordination; that was the longest before I del travelled overseas. I was sent for further par studies to do my masters in Education at the Loyola Marymount University, a Jesuit university, and after that moved to a state- type owned university, University of California at Los Angeles to acquire my PhD in Education.

When I returned to the country, I was assigned to be part of the education department here in the Archdiocese from 2016 to 2019 when I was handed over as the director of education in the Archdiocese and, shortly after that, I was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese.

Hearts Magazine: Thank you very much your Lordship for this interesting profile. Let us talk about morality. How would you respond to questions relating to the high level of moral decadence among young people in our society today?

His Lordship: The moral decadence in the society is quite alarming because it is not just about the young people; it is about the entire society. It seems so systemic. Corruption pervades every facet of life in Nigeria today, from top to bottom. Children born into this system are most likely going to be infected by it. The university is not left out on this because it has become a meeting point for all forms of immorality and corrupt practices. It is sad to know that it is the older ones who are supposed to groom the young minds, helping them to become self-reliant, less corrupt, and less debased in their morality that participate in this; they manipulate the innocence and naivety of the young for self-pleasure. With this type of system that we have in the country, no one is again modeling the young ones. It is good to point out where these all started, because the young ones are picking from what they see in practice. In many places where there are institutions of learning, you tend to see young girls on the streets waiting for someone to pick them up, someone whom they do not know. And most of their so-called “clients” are the elderly. The young ones, thus, become vessels or tools in the hands of the older ones who use them to do what they want. There have been countless cases of lecturers taking advantage of their female students simply for good grades. Many Nigerian university students go through hell in the hands of their lecturers who demand “sorting” from them before they can pass their exams. Therefore, if we are to address the issue of corruption we must address it from top down…….

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