Student Appeals To Nigerian Youths, Their Parents, The Government
Legit.ng reader Dammy Afolayan from Akure, Ondo State, appeals to Nigerian youths in his message called Letter From An Angry Student To All Students, Parents As Well As The Government, with a piece of advice regarding their education. What's your take on his suggestion?
"You should read this if you're still schooling.
"Perhaps you see headlines like "FUTA 1st class graduate arrested for defrauding people of up to N5 million" every day.
"Five boys were involved in this particular case. Three out of them used to sit next to each other in lecture halls because they are close friends.
"The first-class graduate caught is a brilliant student, a genius in class. I had always imagined him working with the oil and gas big players. The rest of us had to make do with whatever results we could accumulate although we were all striving hard. But hear this, a couple of years on, this incredible brain is having to rot in his parent's home. No job, no source of livelihood. He has to survive. What choice do you leave him?
"I am not in any way supporting his misdeeds of duping people by setting up a website for people to buy a fake scholarship for N2500. But I never knew our nation could go this bad and wrong.
"The best graduating student in my faculty has no job, scholarship or social support. I can only imagine what is happening to the majority of my other colleagues.
"He is guilty of fraud. But we owe him an apology. We told him to go to school and succeed. He did that exceptionally well. Now the part of the agreement that is ours to fulfill, we failed him. Not only him, but also the rest of Nigeria.
"Imagine the genius he would have become in a more sane society. Now we've lost him. Same way we lost Shekau, the best project management and logistics brain this nation has ever produced: try abducting and keeping one person hostage undetected for over 100 days to see what I am saying.
"Students, youths! If you have any talent at all, don't shove it aside because of some-so called "academic commitments". That's a grave mistake you should never make. Rap, draw, do your graphic design, sing, write, act, go for shows, continue with your comedy performances. Exploit that talent to the maximum, don't put all your hope in the degree "they" want to give you. Trust me, your talent is worth a million times more than academics.
"This is Nigeria. This is what we have become!
"The sooner children as well as our parents begin to realize that "A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men" (Proverbs 18:16), the sooner we will all learn to encourage our wards in whatever talent they have been blessed with rather than shove books down their throats and say they must graduate with a first class degree."
This is one of the many letters we've got from disillusioned Nigerian youhts. However, we also get another kind of messages - positive and encouraging young people of Nigeria to take matters in their hands, never give up and become the leaders of tomorrow. Whose side are you on and what kind of necessary changes in the way the Government treats our youths would you suggest?
Source: Legit.ng
