IN PURSUIT OF FAKE AMBITION AND PLANLESSNESS..... Ten (10) people or more died today. This is not a question of APC or PDP problem orientation but a national problem. I mean that this is rather a leadership problem that anyone or group of persons could solve outside party affiliations. For instance, I do not expect the APC to seize the opportunity and sensationalize these deaths, I feel they should employ tact and innovativeness in their struggle to provide evidence that they can perform better than the incumbent government. That stated, I would become a fan, mouth-piece and a projector of the partys ideologies any moment they satisfy these demands. But, how do you trust a people on innovation when they buy foreign political consultancy aid? They have yet another chance to perform or get permanently aborted. Sadly, more than ten (10) Nigerian youths has been reported dead as a result of a stampede at the National Stadium Abuja and elsewhere over Nigerian Immigration Service employment. This is clearly a pursuit of a fake ambition contained in other to make ends meet after series of years at home after tertiary education. To be fair with young people, the tales of entrepreneurship told in schools and NYSC orientation camps is averse to the reality of power failures and hosts of adversaries/challenges to contend with outside the learning enclosures. So, after producing a hand-bag straightened on your belly, who buys them? The presidency? Of course we have tastes and individual minimum standards. If only this government provided stable electric power only. I am no longer interested in the burdensome stat manufactured on the cold tables of Abuja which lacks reflection on ground but in the observable efforts that could transform all sectors. In escape, some of us who engaged in restraint not because we consulted with Ifa but for the fact that our level of frustration is fresh and yet to hit roof tops stayed home instead of applying to the obvious sham of NIS recruitment exercise. Someone like me have minded my desk for too long to fit into non-regulated sporting activities sef. But, the olden graduates and logically the most frustrated went in pursuit of the seeming opportunities where they met untimely death. May they find peace. Now, it is NIS, tomorrow, it could be another....We never learn from mistakes. In the photograph, one is attracted to observe the number of applicants at a stadium in search of jobs contrary to their life ambitions, aspirations and dreams. What they need is to be employed somewhere, anywhere and anyhow. I am obviously tired of discussing the government and has ceased to incline my thoughts and posts towards them. The photograph depicts the situation around the federation today which could have been phased in such a way as to allow for a better/best handling of the process. One thing that readily comes to mind is cost, but these applicants paid monies fees for the exercise, did they not? Sometime ago in a facebook group, I contended that thousands of Steve Jobs are stifled to uselessness in the country every year. Many people would say, he was innovative and yes. But, he had access to basic facilities in his community which developed his creativity and innivation. I can also say the same about Bill Gates. He had access to social services including libraries. I watched his biography and had seen the young man slept on the door of his girlfriend sapped out by over-reading. These men mentioned also had access to stable electric power and other social services. Same day I wrote, it was possible for these men to stop going to school and still get to their dreams. Closely, my apologies to those who call him a school drop-out with minds inclined towards unseriousness. A school drop-out of unseriousness yet he voluntarily left the Mathematics Department just because someone came first and he was second? You kidding me? These men knew what they wanted, and they had enabling environments. Our story is different and I will always frown at the dolling out of 10 million to an individual in the name of YOU-WIN Sure-P while others go home with nothing. Now, where is the ripple effect? Zero! Back in Kogi, I told my students that, nobody taught me Mathematics and Geography. I had always perceived the teachers of these subjects as distractions perhaps because I went to schools that had few teachers. But, because my dad had a mini-library, I picked books on Geography, bought engineering Mathematics with the CD and made the best out of the duo. In a situation whereby you have no access to books, how do you succeed? In Nigeria today, how many schools can boast of a standard library? Alright, just a space called library? Outside the few located in the urban, the rest is none. I make bold and through informed assumption to say that an average Nigerian student do not go to the library. They listen to the nonsense some of the teachers blow and of course in short of the moral courage required to question the fallacies. However, let us return to unemployment problems. Whatever happens, I suggest that no agency should henceforth stage this class of national embarrassment in the name of recruitment exercise. The most bitter aspect is a simultaneous conduct of the exercise around the federation. This is a display of poor, rash or no planning. You have the number and the list of applicants, and should have made adequate arrangements for the exercise. When tensions sink, we shall begin to ask questions about the monies the establishment realized from jobless young people. Next time, plan very well, if you cannot give us jobs, do not take our life...
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:00:57 +0000
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