Our President on Youths

Our President on Nigerian youths:  
So much have been said on media about our President’s (President Muhammadu Buhari)  comment about our youths at the Commonwealth Summit taking place in London  

Given the caliber of persons taking part in the conversation I also made one or two comments expressing my reservation over our President calling our youths illiterates and lazy!   Are these lazy and/or illiterate youths?

It’s only this morning I got to listen to what the President said that’s generating so much talk. 

He actually said about 60% of our population are made up of youths below the age of 30 and many of them have not gone to school and they have this mentality about Nigeria being an oil producing country so they want cars, houses etc without working for them.

He didn’t come across as malicious. He simply stated as is. And he didn’t say Nigerian youths are lazy bla bla bla as is being carried on.  I believe our comments are unfair to him. I apologize for believing he may have said so as I didn’t think it was proper he said that about our youths to foreigners rather than to us so we work on how to correct it.  

I understand some of us feel he was given a platform to market Nigeria to the world but he rather sold us cheap but let’s look at it again  

I’ve learnt that what separates the Achievers from others is that the Achievers see opportunities for value addition in all situations.

So I went back and listened again…it tells the investing public that education is under threat in Nigeria so opportunities abound and there is a huge population/market for them. That there are also opportunities for youths reorientation. He didn’t downplay on the security  situation  

Should he have told them that Nigeria is very safe and the youths are up and ready to engage in meaningful work? Then they come in with their investments only to see that all the leaders move around fully guarded with arms as though Nigeria was at war and the youths just keep kidnapping people as though it’s child play.

Who dey deceive who?

We truly don’t have to give a dog a bad name in order to kill it. Anything done based on falsehood don’t endure but it carries a lot of casualties we may not be able to remedy.

Let’s be more careful. Na ourselves we dey do or undo at the end of it all.

My personal opinion. Kind regards.