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What Will Become Of Our Next Generation? by Cyojunior(m): 10:12am On Apr 07, 2016 |
COMING GENERATION SCARES ME...REAL HARD!
While we have been busy talking about Nigeria of today, I
wonder if we have spared a thought about how this country
will be in the next TWENTY-FIVE years. On October 1, 1979,
when Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari was sworn-in as
president, Goodluck Jonathan was just a 22 year-old
undergrad of University of Port-Harcourt. Shagari was 54
years old. Ayo Fayose was 19 years old. Bukola Saraki was
17. Yemi Osinbajo was 22. The generation of the likes of
Shagari, Richard Akinjide, Adisa Akinloye, Sabo Barkin Zuwo,
Ifeanyi Nwobodo, Ume Ezeoke, Akin Omoboriowo, Olusola
Saraki, Sunday Awoniyi, Garba Nadama, Awal Ibrahim and
so on has gone for good! Some of us in our 40s and 50s,
when in school, either in the university or secondary school,
had lofty dreams, both personal and societal. We were
always motivated by nationalists and inventors who had
impacted positively on the cause of humanity. We were
voracious readers of novels and other books. Nelkon for
our Ordinary Level Physics, Lambert for Chemistry, B.O
ADELEKE and Goh Cheng Leong for our Geography,
Phebean Ogundipe for Practical English, Achebe and
Soyinka for Literature and others like that. We were always
flaunting our knowledge of current affairs. Inter-school
quiz, Literary and Debating competition were the in-thing.
Nowadays, students can hardly string a sentence together
in English without errors.
Fast forward 35 years on and you are shocked and
disturbed. Have you ever spoken to or engaged a 20 year-
old boy? Ask him what motivates him and he is likely to
mention music, hip hop to be precise. He has hundreds of
downloaded songs on his phone. He can sing all of them off
hand. He knows all the singles of Nice, Neato C, Timaya,
Davido, Whiz Kid off had. The babes among them take pride
in enticing men old enough to be their father on social
media with buxomly physique. But s/he does not know
anything about history of nationalism in the country. Ideas
about good society, responsible family and good conduct
do not motivate him. He just wants to make money because
his friend who does yahoo is rich and rides a good car, her
friend who has numerous ‘aristos’ drives a SUV! The things
that interest him/her are things that do not add value. S/he
has google but never uses it for advancement of knowledge
but to download porn and other inanities. Yet, in TWENTY
years time, they are the ones that will be contesting to
become governors, senators, Reps members and even
president. They belong to a generation that does not care
about morality. They belong to a generation that is
motivated only by money and its acquisition. By 2035 to
2040, they will be our senators, Reps, governors and so on. I
wonder if we have ever spared a thought for how this
country will look like under them. I told a man recently and
these are my words: IF A GUY WHO IS IN LAGOS COULD
USE FALSE PRETENCE TO
OBTAIN $20,000 FROM SOMEONE IN UNITED STATES, WHAT
DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN IF SUCH A GUY BECOMES A
STATE GOVERNOR AND IS IN CHARGE OF AN ALLOCATION
HE DOES NOT EVEN HAVE TO OBTAIN UNDER FALSE
PRETENCE? WHICH HIS STATE IS STATUTORILY ENTITLED
TO. How did we get into this mess? How can we get out of
this predicament? I am worried, deeply worried. Are you? |
Re: What Will Become Of Our Next Generation? by PoliticalThuG(m): 10:21am On Apr 07, 2016 |
The next generation will be nice cos these our old polithiefcians wud be dead thereby giving our younger generation the chance to govern this country. |
Re: What Will Become Of Our Next Generation? by Cyojunior(m): 10:37am On Apr 07, 2016 |
PoliticalThuG: I dnt tink u read the article. Before droppinng ur comment ! |
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