I stumbled on this write up online.. And i think truely we need to reminisce on what the future of Nigeria lies on..


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 hand. The babes among them take
pride in enticing men old enough to be
their father on social media with buxomly
physique. But he/she 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. He/she has
google but never uses it for advancement
of knowledge but to download porn and
other inanity. 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?
Really we need to think..
Cc lalatisclala seun obinoscopy..