Yesterday I posted something on the NIS sham recruitment exercise and how i see the Presidents policy statement as getting us nowhere. Some people felt I was talking gibberish and didnt hide that fact. Let me tell you a story. I have a very good friend. Much more younger than me. He graduated two years ago. He is indigent; went to the university the hard way. Dad is dead. Mum and well-meaning people helped him through school. At graduation, he made a 1st Class! He broke the faculty record. At NYSC, he distinguished himself. He was one of those honoured by the Mountain of Fire Church (you know the church honours 1st class graduates every year with cash or gift incentives). As I type, He is still unemployed. A 1st class graduate! In Nigeria. When I go to visit him, I find him reading. Studying. Mathematics. Banking. Finance. He has searched and searched for employment. He is a genius who God just sent to Nigeria thinking we would harness his intelligence. The places where my young friend should have been employed have been taken over charlatans and mediocres who probably made 3rd class but know someone in power. They got a note from a serving public office holder and got the job. My friend went for the NIS recruitment exercise. I hate to imagine that he could have been one of the injured or the dead. Like my friend, many graduates, brilliant ones at that, are still unemployed. Roaming the streets with well-deserved and well-earned certificates. I am sure we get inundated by messages and requests to help with employment. So many of our brilliant graduates have taken up odd jobs as cleaners, drivers, factory workers where they are ripped off by greedy employers. Some have lost the will to go on. The occasional help we dole-out to them is demeaning as far as I am concerned. Demeaning to a young man or woman who has so much energy, willing and ready to burst with productivity. To my critics, this is what the government should focus on. People should be employed based on merit. Create more jobs. Make the environment safe and conducive for investors. Deal with corruption and nepotism at all levels. Cut down the cost of governance! It is too high! We are paying dearly for that. Show the unemployed youths that they have a father in government. Crime will reduce. Depression and suicide tendencies will slow down. Because, at the moment, every unemployed Nigerian youth is injured and hurting. May God direct our presidents noble path And guide him aright. Amen.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:27:27 +0000
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