Governor Udom Emmanuel has sued for reinstitution of basic moral values at the family level, to check the upsurge of social vices and moral decadence plaguing the larger society.

Speaking at the funeral ceremony in honour of Elder Okon Umoren, at Government Primary School field, Ikot Ese Ishiet in Onna Local Government Area, the Akwa Ibom State Governor attributed the glorious exit and honour done the deceased to the meticulous investments in his children's lives.

He acknowledged death as an inevitable end for every man and tasked parents to invest valuably in their children to amass honour for their later days.

Governor Emmanuel said the church, teachers and parents have the responsibility of moulding children into valuable citizens of the society, but stressed that the latter had the most fundamental duty as the family remains a child's first place of learning.

"It is a good thing to have children, but this should also be a lesson that whoever has children should raise them well because you never know how your last days will be.

"The problem the government is facing today is because of the failure of the church, the teachers and the parents because these are the three pillars that used to shape the children before sending them out to the larger society, but in all, charity begins at home. If parents are diligent in raising children, the social vices we have in today's society will be greatly reduced", he added.

The governor, an inlaw to the deceased, appreciated every one who joined the family to give the late Elder Umoren a befitting farewell.

Bishop Uduakobong Akpan of Eket Diocese of the Methodist Church, Nigeria, in his homily, taken from Psalm 90:12, said it was unwise for any man to live without considering what his life at the moment means to another man and to God.

He admonished Christians to apply wisdom in whatever they do and live their lives with the consciousness of having to render an account of their stewardship to God at a time that they cannot determine.