BEFORE WE ALL BECOME TERRORISTS!!! Few days ago, Oluwasegun David Ogundipe (a young Nigeria lawyer and Africa writer) aired a friend opinion on Facebook which stipulated thus: (sic) what will you do if offered #15 million and then asked to slap your mum?. I followed the comments to the latter, and it gave birth to two school of thoughts: those that believed it stemmed out of poverty and others that deemed it fit that it is stupidity that made the original owner of the post to come up with such. Still in the same atmosphere, one Aiyelabegan Abdulwahab asked on Unilorin Students Union group that: For 80million dollars,u are asked to set your Bsc certificate on fire,what will you do? And to my consternation, while almost all the comments that followed were in affirmative, I found that of Temitope Oluwaseye Ibiyo Odeyemi more fascinating: pls how do u want me to burn it? With kero! Petrol? Gas?matches? Fire wood? Or what? Jst name it and it shall be done asap. Haaaaa!!!! Na 8omillion dollars oooo!! Should we also say that this also came out of stupidity? If knowledge is power, are we to subsume that the commentators are in dearth of knowledge? Truely ignorance is not an execuse, but certainly those commentators know what they want. In fact, let call a spade a spade and nobody should try to seat on the fence on this issue, am scare to buttress the fact that as a result of how dilapidated and incongruous Nigeria and Nigerians are, that the response might also be in confirmative perhaps certain percentage of parents are directly asked whether they can allow one if not all of their children to pass a stink or for the sake of the saints an holy slap on them for certain amount? Not because they are not aware it is a taboo to our culture but because of the notion of the survival of the fittest. More also, some parents would even go a long way to let it be known that it is God doing and hence marvellous in their sight and to this alot of Holy Books references would be exhumed to back such incident. Left to me I do not agree it is stupidity that breed such an act rather poverty. And if am force to still hold the same opinion, then poverty must be the parents that gave birth to one and only offspring and named it stupidity. Or what is the essence of finishing school and nobody to employ you? What is the essence of being an entrepreneur full of ideas when nobody is ready to make available capital to start a business.? We can continue with what and what till Gods know when, and here is an opportunity where there is a short way to the known heaven than the unknown one. In Nigeria today, no one or say view of us still hold the dream of becoming Wole Soyinka, S.Y. Omoiya, Ayo Salami, late Chinue Achibe, and host of others of our time, not because we are not in dire need of money, not because we are not aware of the stipend pay to them during their service time, neither are we short of the fact that they need to queue for that same allowance when old age set-in if at all it would be paid to them, but because this is where our passion lies, because we are convinced its through impacting positively that we can improve our science and technology, because we know that the future of this great nation is in education and not entertainment. You will agree with me that gones are the day when you ask a child what he portend becoming in posterity and echo such noun as doctor, lawyer, lecturer among others but it is either such child tell you he wants to become Olamide (YBNL), Tubaba, DoroSavage, politicians or the newly trend in Africa: Pastors and imam. The reason for this is physical to the blind. There exist millions of award to those in that categories for their efforts in airing assorted rubbish and when it come to education and it products, the number of stakeholders that award students for the job well done can be counted and even compare with the formal. So, when slight opportunity present itself, we dont need a preacher to tell us which to choose, after all it is only how to enrich their pocket the said preachers are concern about. And as the situation stand now if the government, the stakeholders and the sui generis that have the credibility and ability to act fail to do so in time, the bitter truth is that if not all of us, majority of us might be force or willingly give in to terrorism which promise huge amount of hard earned currencies without considering the long term effect it will have on the nation as a whole. After all, the concern bodies never thought of the longterm effect of pummeling capital into entertainment sector and what aview in jettison of education sector with the large testimony of seventy percent failure recorded by WASSCE 2014.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 17:15:21 +0000
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