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Are we a product of our times or the failures of the past generation? Whichever we are, we are the millennials. A word of which we know not the origin nor its true meaning but those it describes.
Is it meant as an insult or a simple representation of what it hopes to describe? Children of a new millennium. Are we forever to be known as the failed generation even to our children?
History is best examined from the perspective of those who lived it and from those who preceded it. But the thought that keeps me up at night is if history will at all be kind to us. Perhaps to our grandchildren, we will become heroes, but to our grandparents, we are no doubt failures.
For many stakeholders of this State, corruption and crime is the enemy, but how much does this assertion hold true? A more critical party will retrace this fall from grace to a moral decay that now pervades our Nation.
Nigeria is not safe, it has never been, and will likely never be, but that singular lack of safety has never been more apparent than now. As fathers, mothers, and children come to that inevitable conclusion, introspection steps in and the question becomes, how did we get here?
Have we any retort to our questionable thoughts? Relationships are now a mockery of prostitution, Hustling now involves a tradition of ritual killings, kidnappings, and fraud, while leadership is no different from rulership. Who are we fooling?
The popular claim is herdsmen are killing and Buhari is tribalistic and nepotistic, while in the same breath describing northerners as savages. Easterners are called by unprintable names and southerners reminded of conflicts better left forgotten.
We position our brothers in positions for which they are not qualified and yet call politicians Nepotistic. Parents fail to instil moral values in children that will later grow to menace them.
The situation reminds me of a statement by ever-brilliant Awolowo who said “If we are in the habit of practising the opposite of what we preach, our admonition will not only lose their force and cogency but also we ourselves will forfeit every claim to credibility. An ounce of example, it has been widely said, is far better than a ton of precepts. “1970
Our failures as inheritors are rooted in the actions of past generations and the norms of today.
A policeman stands bravely on the highway, carrying a weapon and stopping motorists with it, then depriving them of their hard-earned cash. Is such not a mere robbery by another name?
Many speak of changing the country if they have the chance, but with the little, you have even now, what have you done?
Charity begins at home. It is of no use when we insult politicians about not doing enough when you have yet to do anything yourself.
Millennials are failures, but must we remain so?