From the Archive! Why Nigerian Youths Must Fight For Their Future By Badero Olusola We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope - Martin Luther King, Jr. I woke up this morning with a message of hope to my fellow Nigerian youths. Just like Ive always said, Nigeria is a hopeless country when it comes to her teaming disorientated youths, but all hope is not lost. Nigerian youths have never had it this bad. I was listening to the song of Nigerian popular Apala musician, late Ayinla Omowura last night and was taken aback on how long Nigeria has been so poorly managed by our previous rulers. In that music he sang about the deteriorating economy of the country. That was way back in the 70s. He sang of how people were finding it difficult to feed their families. How #2 garri cant feed just a single man talk less of his family. How people were becoming so poor that they cant even merry with their friends any longer. Now fast forward that to 2014. Thats like 40 years later. What do we have? Abject poverty. Education was once a tool for social liberation in Nigeria but not anymore. You can get a phd in whatever field, they are almost useless today if you dont know people in power. Everything has nosedived and inching toward total collapse. Struggle and total frustration is written all over everyones face. Ask any Nigerian youth if he/she still believes in the govt and the response youll get can better be imagined. Our young secondary school leavers are also being affected in this hopeless situation we deliberately plunged ourselves. Our girls are being married to men old enough to be their grandfathers, while their older peers now feature in High Class Prostitution code named Runs, all in an effort to escape the current abject poverty plaguing the land. Morality in Nigeria has reached its lowest ebb. No one cares. The system is just not favorable to any hardworking youth. Now everyone is on the fast lane. Name all the social malady in Nigeria today, our youths are at the forefront. Prostitution, armed robbery, kidnaping, fraud, exam malpractices, ritual killings, drug pushing, terrorism, just name it. Nigerian youths have lost hope in Nigeria. Its now a matter of use whatever you have to get what you want. Gone are the days when child trafficking was a taboo. But today, every Nigerian youth believe he must get out of the country in search of the proverbial greener pastures. They even paid to get trafficked to anywhere in the world. So far its just to get out of Nigeria. Yet the rulers dont see anything in that. Thousands are dying every year in an attempt to cross the Sahara desert to Europe for an uncertain future. Those shouting war against child trafficking are doing so much more cuz of the dollars they get from foreign donors. Its all eye services. But I come with a message of hope this morning. Its not over for you in the Project Nigeria. Its time we do away with the belief, We are powerless. There is strength in numbers. We have the numbers and these tyrants knows this. They wont let you discover this or let you make sense out of your numerical strength. Thats why the concept of divide and rule, introduced by the French colonial masters in Africa is still very much in effect till date. Internet gives you access to information that your leaders wont ever divulge to you. Every information minister or commissioner in Nigeria can be likened to the post of Propaganda Chief of Hitlers tyrannical reign. They tell you basically what they want you to hear. Promising you what they have no plan of doing. Giving you unrealistic hopes. Once they realized the game is about to be up, theyll change the propaganda. Then you start hoping again. Take the issue of Electricity for example. No one is gonna change Nigeria for you, but you. Stop seeing your fellow youth as your enemy. Your real enemy is that Aso Rock and other Govt houses occupier across the country. Stop celebrating them and start asking questions. A govt that gives out hundreds of wheelbarrows, okadas or rechargeable lanterns to jobless youths is your enemy. They dont want your progress. A govt that takes away your right to quality education and security is your enemy. Stop attending their Rallies. Stop collecting money from them. Stop defending these looters. A President, Governor or Senator who cant afford a decent living suddenly became billionaires with the money that ought to give you good lives. A govt that sees difficulty in paying #50,000 as a minimum wage but quickly approved over #100mn for a senator as yearly take home is a Boko Haram Govt. A govt that forces you to pay #300,000 as tuition and sends their children to Cambridge, Harvard and other multi million dollar schools abroad is an Al-Qaeda associate. A govt that construct a km of road @ #1.4bn but cant pay unemployment benefits to her citizen or create industry to provide jobs is actually a killer govt. You must destroy them. Dont spare them. Go to your villages, talk to your fellow brothers and sisters why they need to be part of the change. Use the next election in that country to effect a real change. Reject the known looters and defend your votes. If they try to arm-twist you, destroy them and if the country can boil let it burn. Enough is enough. But if you are satisfied with your current situation, good luck. Blame no one for your misfortune. Maybe your own children will fight for their own liberation after your own failure. At least your own parent did nothing and now its your turn. The choice is yours. We have been disappointed for too long, but we must not give up. All hope is not lost my fellow compatriots. Only if you can act now. (Sorry no time to edit) Maiyegun General.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:10:08 +0000
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