I Mourn my friends! With heavy hearts, i write this piece, its devoid of all grammatical palaces and thrones, i am solely concern to passing the message across. I have read over 40 articles on print and electronic media as well as watched and listened to over 20 news reports on the tragic incidence of saturday, where young chaps died in a quest for a better life. From close call, i can submit that of all these articles and reports only a handful of them has nailed the real issues. Like in our usual parade, alot of them are rubbing the surface and are either scared or shy on taking it deeper. The call for the sack of the interior minister is not only wrong, it is unfortunate. He is just being crucified for a no just course. Some says, he didnt manage the situation properly and again, we miss it. Moro as the minister of interior in this particular context is like the Goal-Keeper, his job of course is to ensure Balls do not cross the line and now alot of goals has been scored. But what would the goalkeeper do, when his attackers arent forceful, midfielders are blocking and tactful and obviously defenders are closing in and marking, he is face to face with Ronaldo Messi and you expect wonders from him? Not all the time, sir. This is not to defend, NIS and the interior ministry for defrauding Nigerians of 1,000 each to apply for a job which our tax is being used to finance and run. Thats a sin, and God shall judge all of you. But i choose to focus on the real issues which i will deal with without bias. What this Recruitment tragedy should open our eyes to are simple; 1. That we have lost it totally with our educational system. We now produce graduates whose major objective is to take files round all offices, parastatals, organisations and companies. What we have as B.Sc, B.A, B.Ed, HND (B.Tech), and even ND and NCE holders are young people who all they have been taught or trained to do in 3 - 6 years is becoming a Job-seeker and not a job-creator. Our quest now is to be gainfully employed. If the hundreds of graduates that are being rolled out annually by our institutions are all seeking for jobs, when are we going to resolve our unemployment issues. As a matter of urgency, we need to revisit our curriculums and structures, the introduction of Entrepreneurial Studies into the system is obviously not enough. We must begin to restructure the system and be sure that 60% of our graduates are indeed graduates. That with little or no support, these young people can attempt to make a better life for themselves and even employ their friends who may still be in the 40% divide. Again, another worrying part is that as i communicated with my friends who sat for the aptitude test, i could recall the Engineers, Scientists, Technicians, Artists, Educators, Electricians and even Broadcasters all jossling to becoming an employee of the NIS which principal duty is to secure our nation borders. This means that, these folks were going to be employed but their real potentials to contributing to our Nation and Worlds advancement in their field of study would have been killed uncousciously. Yet, they struggle to kill themselves. So why struggle to read all the heavy textbooks, stay under the sun to study, burn candles, do awoko, risk your life on campus, stay in unending queues for clearance and pay for one thing or the other and even some had to do one thing or the other just to graduate successfully, if we knew that we would all end up becoming Immigration officers? We would have just gone to read one course, maybe Phone repairs graduate after 3 years and wait for recruitment. 2. That governments at all levels have failed to create an enabling ground for young entrepreneurs to strive. Even those of us that has resolved to put our mind to work and invest our potentials for a better life are not having any form of support. Only militants are been amnestized and packaged. We cant get a shop anywhere, There are 101 unions everywhere, regulating activities and denying genuine practitioners to doing their will, no electricity to power our activities, so we spend our profit on generators, no bank ready to give loan and support, to ask for only 150,000, you may have to dig a grave for the banks to see and those that may give you, get ready to pay a triple as interest, so you are indirectly working for them. You cant get a contract genuinely anywhere, even when you qualify for it, those with complimentary cards that may not know the jobs gets it not forgetting the set that uses bottom power to collect what you have used 3 months and all your savings to vy for. We need to brace up to these issues. Government at all levels (Federal, state and local) must work accidiously to creating the platform for young people to put their brains to work. Lets try this formula for another 5 years, let this same Immigration service advertise for employment and see if we would have these number of applicants. So friends, instead of strangulating the goal keeper who is the interior minister in this matter, let the attacker (the minister for education), the midfielder (the minister for labour and productivity) and the defender (the minister for power) as well as the coach (the president of the nation), the technical adviser (minister for finance) and the technical commitee (all governors, local government chairmen, senators, reps, other ministers and other all Nigerians) King JOEL AGHO
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:56:39 +0000
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