Tunde Bakare, overseer of the Citadel Global Community
Church, says Nigeria’s coming generations must not be burdened with insurgency,
huge debt, and lack of basic amenities.
Speaking during a Democracy Day dialogue organised by the
Canada chapter of PTB4Nigeria, Bakare noted that the next generations of
Nigerians must not bear the brunt of the mess created by those before them.
The cleric noted that coming generations must not inherit
“generator-powered economy, pothole-infested road network and comatose
refineries”, adding that there should be a generation that will witness the
“new Nigeria”.
“Let me reiterate that it is our responsibility as
present-day nation builders to ensure national reconciliation, national
reconstitution and national reconstruction to provide an enabling environment
for the growth and optimisation of future generations of Nigerians,” Bakare
said.
“It is our responsibility, and we must not leave it to the
coming generations. As Franklin D. Roosevelt also said, There is a mysterious
cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations
much is expected.
“I perceive this emerging generation of Nigerians has “a
rendezvous with destiny.
“Consequently, the emerging and coming generations of
Nigerians, including the generation of my grandson, Rereoluwade, must not bear
the brunt of the mess that we and those before us have created.
“Their generation must not be burdened with tackling Boko
Haram, insurgency in the south-east, banditry, kidnapping, or the farmer-herder
crisis.
“Their generation should not have to exclaim “Up NEPA!” nor
should they be handed a generator-powered economy or a pothole-infested road
network.
“Their generation should not be burdened about comatose
refineries, nor should they be bequeathed a growing debt burden that could
render Nigerians slaves on their soil.
“Their generation should not have to march on the streets
against police brutality or the inability of the government to prevent or
resolve the abductions of hundreds of schoolboys and girls.
“Their generation must not be burdened with a failed
education system, nor should tens of millions of their peers be left out of
school without access to education.
“Their generation should not be confronted with incessant
strikes that turn four-year university courses into eight years of torture in
dilapidated facilities, under poorly paid teachers and sex-for-grades merchants
masquerading as lecturers.
“Theirs should not be a generation incapacitated with an
inability to match the rising population with corresponding growth in job
creation.
“Rather than these bleak prospects, theirs should be the
generation that inherits the New Nigeria, a nation that runs on the dreams of
patriotic fathers and the ideas and visions of a young generation of the most
brilliant minds on the planet.”
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