A non-governmental organization,
Unified Nigeria Youth Forum, on Monday described President Muhammadu Buhari’s
remark that a lot of Nigerian youths want to sit and do nothing as the worst
statement any head of state can make about his people in a foreign land.
The forum stated that the youths
of Nigeria deserve an unreserved apology from Buhari and his administration,
giving the President a seven-day ultimatum to do so.
President of the forum, Abulsalam
Mohammed Kazeem, in a statement issued in Kaduna told Buhari, “Your
administration lack the moral right to call us names because the only thing
your administration have in stock is to blame past administration where over 80
per cent of your cabinet members are once part of that administration. Yet Mr.
President is misinforming the world by trying to hide his inadequacies by
blaming the youths when even the budget for education and health is not even
enough to fund the sectors.
“Our population as a nation is
supposed to be an added advantage, but is not, because of the inabilities of
both past and present administrations that have failed to fix our power sector.
“Mr. President should be ashamed
of himself, his generation and administration for spending over 20 billion US
dollars since 1999 till date and yet we are paying for darkness, no investors
will invest in any nation where there is no stable power supply like ours
(Nigeria). Where are the youth going to get the job from?”
The forum insisted that Nigeria
youths are not waiting for free money, stressing that “The youths are making
the most of what has been left for them, which is nothing as we can all see and
feel rather Mr. President should tell the world that their generation were the
idle generation because they have stolen the patrimony of Nigeria youth.
“It took the same president six
good months to form his cabinet and yet the only new faces on the list were
Kemi Adeosun, late Ocholi and Bar.Solomon Dalung, at this point it’s not wrong
for we “the youths” to say that Mr. President is suffering from intellectual
idleness for his in-abilities to give us a strong, new and a viable cabinets
within seven day of his inauguration?
“Under his watch, unemployment
has climbed from 8.2% in 2015 to 18.8% in 2018. Many of us want to work but
have no opportunities. Most youth today are willing and able but the fraudulent
system we found ourselves could not provide the enabling environment.”
The NGO however observed that
Nigeria remains a country of enormous potentials for several decades, adding
that the country ought to have performed much better in terms of human, capital
and economic development.
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