Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of
Transportation, has said Nigerian youths are not ready to embrace change.
The former Rivers State Governor
said this while stressing that Nigerian youths are copying the wrong leadership
model, an act which he alleged may jeopardise their future.
Speaking with journalists in
Lagos, the Minister said youth were not ready yet to embrace a corrupt-free
society because they were wrongly orientated by those using them for their
interest.
According to Amaechi, “The
problem with Nigerian youths is that they just want to take over from the elite
but they are not ready to embrace change, they don’t want reform.
“They say that the roles being
played by the elite are not satisfactory, but they must be ready to upset the
leaders of this country through their ingenuity.
“For example, during our days of
activism, we engage government over unfavourable policies and we get headlong
even during the military administration.
“Now, student union presidents
want a vehicle and a driver to be driving him about to attend meetings. During
our time, who dares have a car? We all struggle on the street.”
Amaechi urged youths to rise up
to the fight against corruption instead of supporting those that they feel were
their benefactor.
He said, “I will advise the
youths to fight against corruption with all their energy instead of giving
tacit support to those they think are their benefactors.
“During our time in the student
union struggles, we rose against impunity and organised protests; but what
happens today, the government of the day announces the money siphoned but the
youths keep quiet.
“Such astronomic stolen amount
government announced wouldn’t have happened during our time, all the street
would have been filled with youths protesting and seeing that the culprits were
punished.
“Today, we have some of our
youths dancing behind the corrupt politicians for a pot of meal that will not
last long thereby mortgaging their future.’’
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