Is it not Boko Haram (BH) this time? In remembrance of victims of 2011 General Election (in the North) and the Saturday, March 15, 2014 Immigration Recruitment Exercise. If you are a stooge of the government who has been hired to attack critics of this present government or a non-committal personality, this article you are about to read is not for you. As discerning Nigerians, I think it is high time we should we reflect on the real state of our nation, particularly as affecting the poor youth of this country. Few months to the 2011 General Election, I vividly remembered the visitation of the President Goodluck Jonathan to Kano State then. He came to launch his campaign in the commercial city of the North. As a Batch ‘A’ NYSC Corps then, I was fascinated of his campaign slogan “the transformation agenda”, particularly his jingles on every television station- “let breathe the fresh air”, “I have no shoes”; “if I could make it, and you too could make it”. Then, I and most friends in the youth service bought the idea of Mr. President as we innocently believed the man. And in our own little efforts, we contributed to his success at the poll. Though there were different orientation in our host environment then but we stood by Mr. President’s words against all odds. Lives were laid down for the actualization of Mr. President’s mandate in the election to take place few months later. Today, I wish those colleagues who lost their lives could see from the high heaven the mess called ‘Transformation’ falsely sold to us then. If question is to be asked on whose section is the most vulnerable of various deadly attacks during Jonathan’s Presidency, the answer would not have been any group but the youth-these were young Nigerians who stood by him during his struggles to be president. I could recollect then the use of social media, and other communication network to sell “the unwanted PDP Presidential Candidate” to fellow Nigerian Youth. We promised this section of Nigeria’s population, on behalf of Mr. President, positive and lofty assurances. But unfortunately today, the president has not only failed to deliver these promises to the youth but has also subjected them to various life-threatening situations. So is the situation of the forgotten youth in Nigeria now. The ugly head of incessant killings of Nigerian Youth rears its head again following the loss of lives of some promising Nigerian Youth in the just-concluded Immigration Recruitment Exercise that took place across the nation yesterday. If Mr. President’s mouth-touted Transformation is anything to go by, such exercise should not have been conducted in such an unplanned, appalling and life-threatening way. While the assailants of dead corps members in the 2011 General Election are yet to be apprehended, the government which itself is the product of the youth could not be cleansed of guilt of killing hundreds of youths in recent time through its various agencies like the recent Immigration Palaver. As a concerned youth and one of the futures of Nigeria, I personally appeal to Mr. President to at least stop the killings of Nigerians, particularly the Youth as he too is what he is today when his personal life is kept sanctified by the government of his own youthful time. Otherwise,a time comes soonest when the poors will have no food left to eat than the flesh of the riches.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:25:27 +0000
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