THE TRAGEDY OF
NIGERIAN YOUTHS AND IRRESPONSIBILITY
By
Gbenga Ademujimi
Dear
Nigerian Youths, I am compelled to write this letter by my daily experiences
and feedback mechanism which makes me sad every second.
An average Nigerian youth has lost hope totally in this great country 'Nigeria' and the best option they think is to run away from their home, but remember the mountain you run away from is waiting for you when you come back. Don’t run to Germany or else your DESTINY may Jam, don’t disappear to Australia so you dot STRAY away. Recently, I was addressing about 700 Nigerian youths and I just picked two of them concentrating on their mobile phones, I stylishly walked to their seat and checked their phone, it was shocking seeing XXX movies on their phones. I made an altar call in a church last year and surprisingly the worship leader came out with 'WEED' popularly known as Indian hemp in his pocket and the drummer with another roll. Our youths are busy sagging their trousers fighting, killing themselves because of foreign football clubs, may I ask, how many of these foreign players knows anyone of Nigerian youths.
Our
young adults contributed money and built viewing centers for those clubs here
in Nigeria. Some handsome fools and pretty dommies are going round driving some
form of Japanese and German cars and termed themselves as big boys/babes. How
do you justify a 50 year old woman celebrating her Golden Jubilee with a 2002
Toyota space bus and our youths are sharing testimonies because they got visa
to Germany, Ireland not because they are going to school but because they ‘taught’
they have escaped the problems in Nigeria. Are you aware that TOYOTA was around
40 years old when he was already running his registered weaving company which
later became the automobile company, His son Kichiiro took his father’s dream
to the next level at 47 years old. Today, TOYOTA manufactures over 10million
cars annually with over 340,000 workers worldwide. Karl Benz registered his
first company at 27years old and at the age of 42 he already had his patented
mark for trading Mercedes as automobile company. Soichiro Honda was 42 years
old when he started making bicycles and cars for humanity. Our youths had been
wrongly hypnotized that COMFORT and CONVENIENCE are the victory signs over
those who observe the ‘said’ comfortable ones, suffering and smiling. The most
expensive slum in the world is in Nigeria-CNN report 2011, the best cars in the
world are driven on the worse roads in Nigeria. Today what do we see in our
youths? Please check the DISPLAY PAGE of an average teenager/youth on your
mobile phone and tell me how many of them have a sensible, constructive and
future message on their DP…Elegushi things, Lekki things, Protea things, Gig
things, Versace bags things, wedding things, Dubai things,,,these are the
titles on their DPs.
When
you see a black man or woman at any airport around the world, what we do is to
be buying perfumes, clothing magazines, materials, materials, materials,,,but
check an average white boy/girl,,,you will see them buying books or things that
add value to their lives and make their minds robust and productive. This is a
big challenge of the time we live in. Ok let’s come back home, Chief Richard
Akinjide had been part of all the constitution writing in this country since he
became a member of the Parliament at the age of 24 immediately he came back
from studying abroad, Prof. Pat Utomi became the special adviser to President
Shehu Shagari at the age of 26, Gen. Yakubu Gowon became the head of state at
29 years old, Gen. Mohammed Buhari, Murtala Mohammed, Olusegun Obasanjo, Bamanga
Tukur, Ojukwu, Aguyi Ironsi, Gen. Adebayo, Fajuyi and many others had reached
their goals, aspirations and dreams between the age of 25 and 40, still many of
them are still controlling us, why? The answer is what I have been sharing with
us on this page. We as youths of this nation are too materialistic, vain and
vague.
Our
ladies don’t think anything again rather than talking, praying, fasting about
marriage and making babies. They are just sold out to the family and societal
pressure. Who says HONOUR and RESPECT is attracted by the title ‘MRS’,,,please
young ladies stop fooling yourself and go get your education, right exposure,
positive attitude and everything that will make you fulfil your purpose on
earth. The hair some ladies put on their head is far expensive than their
brain, remember the brain you don’t grow today will make you groan
tomorrow…Your PERUVIAN, BRAZILIAN, PARAGA or GBAGADA weavon has nothing to do
with the strength of your character, neither would it catalyze your level of
productivity. Don’t forget that you are a GIRL by CHANCE, a LADY by CHOICE and
a GENTLE LADY by CULTURE and vice versa. Mother Theresa never had her own
biological child but on her account was recorded over 3million children that
she cared for during her lifetime, some years ago she won the TIME magazine
award, ‘WOMAN OF THE CENTURY’ and not the woman of centenary. Two nations are
still fighting for her grave yard just because of the tourist attraction. How
many of our young women are still living without relevance, what a shame on
‘Aso Ebi’ syndrome. An average Nigerian youth is laboring, working hard just to
compete with friends and church members on Sundays, show off service instead of
worship service on Sundays. We work so hard from Monday to Friday and save some
money in order to spray on Saturday at a family wedding party or better still
on that Friday night at club houses. Our politicians, business people and
professionals are stealing the public funds just to buy the latest cars and
devices that people who are younger than them invented, what’s wrong with this
continent called Africa and especially Nigeria. We buy what we don’t produce
and produce what we don’t buy. We own cocoa and crude oil but still imports the
bye products, so the buyer of the raw materials determines the price for both
the raw and the finished, what a shame? Africa has remained the single largest
continent as liability in the whole global field. My friends, I want to appeal
to you with every sense of humility but without any apology that please take
your destinies into your own hands by following who through FAITH and PATIENCE
obtain the PROMISE and not following those only explains but those who had
already obtained. Anyone can doubt what you say but only FOOLS will doubt your
PROOFS. Many of our youths are not ready to do anything for free, don’t forget
the best way of becoming a professional is learning on the job(apprenticeship)
It is the degree of your LEARNING that determines your level of EARNING. Every
CHAMPION needs a COACH.
Volunteer
jobs are still out there and it still pays afterwards. Dear friends, please
election is starting very soon, let us make sure we shun evil and embrace
righteousness, we are 70% of the nation’s population and about 60% of us are
unemployed. An idle hand is the devil’s workshop my father told us when we were
growing up. Joblessness is not necessarily our problem but idleness and
laziness, agricultural programs are out there, let us engage ourselves in
something positive, yahoo-yahoo is not a good source of income, going to
Malaysia to sell your kidney because of money to buy Honda end of discussion is
nothing but lack of vision and risking your health status.
Do
something positive, learn a skill, we only get tillers, good POP makers and
even good plumbers from Togo, Senegal these days, there is DIGNITY in LABOUR
friends. I learnt how to make blocks, rings, slabs during ASUP 5 months strike
in 1993 and today no one can take the skill away from me, also I learnt graphic
design, printing and publishing some time ago when I had no job, I didn’t pay
for it because the owner was around my house and I will go there in the morning
to help them and in the process, I became one of them. I made grinding stones
from the left over of gravels, sand and cement, took them to the market and I
made a lot of money, by the time ASUU/ASUP called off strike, I didn’t need
money from home, I was ready for school financially. Please OKADA riding is not
a COMPANY but a temporary BUSINESS, you can make money from your business but
you can’t leave it behind you as a LEGACY and POSTERITY.
Also,
this our chest that we are exposing on Okada is dangerous to our health, where
are the hospitals that specializes in chest and cold treatments, I am afraid
for our young men riding Okadas of their health state in the next 10 years,
would we have men of 50 years old again, I hope our life expectancy will not be
shortened. Friends, offer yourself to an organization today and let them see
the value you add to their system, your employment will be automatic, read
books, go for seminars and stop wasting your time/money on recharge cards,
movies, BB, facebook, expensive phones that add nothing to you, empty your
POCKET into your BRAIN and you will never get BROKE Please not everyone will
become Entrepreneur, some will be academics, professional, find your track and
run your race with burning passion. There is danger in every young men/ladies
aspiring to become musician, dancer, comedian or going into showbiz because of
money.
Our
multinationals should consider other viable ways of compensating Talents, some
young Talents are silenced by the quantity of money they are exposed to at
their unprepared age, Talent is not only singing, dancing or making people to
laugh. Our media houses should help us here, where are the quiz competitions,
debate clubs and other intellectual engagements.
Remember,
TALENT IS NOT ENOUGH…The reason why people are SHUT DOWN before their time is
because they were SHIT OUT before their time.
To
DESTROY a man is to give him RESPONSIBILITY beyond his ABILITY at the age below
CAPACITY. Stop chasing MONEY and start chasing HONEY…Honey is that which you
add to someone’s life per day, you will surely be paid for it. We can’t
continue to run after mundane things and our government will take us serious,
if not the President will not appoint a former governor already indicted with a
fraud of N200M as the minister for youth development at age 56…Nigerian Youths
Decide by deep thinking. This materialistic lifestyle will not take us
anywhere, I pray that we will repent and do the NEEDFUL, amen. Remember, it is
IRRESPONSIBILTY that makes a man become LIABILITY.
God Bless Nigerian Youths.
gbengademujimi-@PastorGeeReform
‘The Navigator’
God Bless Nigerian Youths.
gbengademujimi-@PastorGeeReform
‘The Navigator’
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