I was very excited leaving Nigeria for Europe and I told myself not to come back anytime soon. My first day back to Nigeria, I cried, I cried both inside and outside, goodness, this is poverty, this is an unimaginable poverty and the poverty level has gone from bad to worse.
I was going to bring in some investors to Nigeria for a business that will be a Private partnership Project, while the man in charge of the government side was planning to frustrate my effort and also trying to hijack the project from me. He then emailed my investors on how NIGERIANS (especially my generation - I am in my late 20's) are the ones doing all the dubious thing, we are the ones giving NIGERIA a bad name outside the shore of Nigeria, we are all crooks, the only thing we want to do is to take investors money and use it for our personal use. These messages were coming from a person in his late 60's.
I woke up today and decided to do something, let the world know that My Generation are not being giving the choice and the ability to prove to these older generations. I am going to empower the youth, empower the youth so they will not be dependable on the government. I am part of the generation of Nigerians that is struggling to repair what our older generation has damaged beyond repairs. Sadly, this older generation got everything free from Nigeria including
a. Free education
b. Free overseas scholarships
c. Free stand by jobs waiting before graduation
d. Free accommodation after graduation
e. Free Car after graduation
f. And many more
They are the same generation that became
a. Lectures in the Universities that fails the younger generation if
a. They do not sleep with the ladies
b. They do not take money from the guys
b. That institutionalized corruption
c. Plundered our oil wealth over the last 40 years
d. Stashed all our sovereign wealth in foreign accounts
e. Bought assets all over the world
f. Collected several bank loans and refused to pay back
g. Destroyed the cocoa industry and other non oil exports
h. Abused the import license initiative
I. Looted all the funds to build good roads
j. Introduced violence and desperation and politics of force into our polity.
k. They have stolen the future of generations yet unborn
These older generations have turned Nigeria into a place where we
A. Have millions of acres of arable land and billions of cubic liters of water, but cannot feed
b. Produce rice but spend $1 billion to import rice
c. Have 60 million of cattle but spend $2 billion to import milk
d. Drive the latest cars in the world but have no good roads.
e. We lose the most brainy and productive people due to the potholes
f. Have schools with no teacher
g. Have classrooms with no roofs
h. Have all the major professionals gone abroad, and the rest are awaiting visas.
I. Have 20 million university graduate, but illiterate with no future
j. The results had been announced, before I could vote
k. My rulers are my oppressors
l. My policemen are my terrors.
m. Have 50 million youths with no jobs
n. Have sons in the South becoming militants.
o. Have daughters walk the streets of Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt doing nothing
p. Have my leaders the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private jets.
q. Where we can produce something, but import everything.
r. Spend a billion dollars to import fake leather.
s. Have four refineries, but prefer to import fuel
t. Have no security, but would rather send troops to keep the peace in another man's land
u. Have 160 dams, but cannot get water to drink
v. Have a million children waiting to enter universities, but limited seats.
w. Have the best source of power generation but sleep in darkness
Please join me, lets empower ourselves, lets this generation do something differently, let us support each other so that the poverty level in this country can reduce, let's work smart, let's fight to see us grow to become a living Icon within and outside Nigeria.
More to come........................
