Taekwondo Has Capacity For Value Transformation Among Youths - Enugu Chairman

The Chairman of Enugu State Taekwondo Association, Ebere Amaraizu, has said that the sports has high moral value to transform 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.

Amarizu who is also the National Coordinator of Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices(POCACOV) said that the game is not just a sport but a game with high moral code, values which are relevant for propagation of moral rebirth among youths and children.

“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.