19/03/2024
Why A students become lecturers and C students form the government.
Sometimes when I see our veterans who served this country with their life complain at newspaper stand why their pensions are withheld, I pity them. But most times don't.
They are all reaping the fruit of their inaction like plato once said. Our veteran's hatred for politics and its stigmatisation led to the worst among them going into politics.
It is too bad that this has lingered till day. Our parents keep telling the good students to stay clear of students. Once a student indicates little interest in politics he is quarantined into a group of unserious students.
This gives way for those whose main reason of getting involved in politics is to be like their political mentors who don't really care about any of us.
Once they place their feet on that elevator, their godfathers pull them up. Politics is not for the unserious people.
When Obasanjo spoke about democracy, everyone thought it was cruise. The civil servants didn't want to retire from their white colar jobs cause it was risky. Some years before, Shagari conducted an election that was annulled. They allowed the unionists who were after all unserious students in school to contest. The unserious unionists we have now.
No one took them serious and they had nothing to loose. That is why you keep hearing of certificate issues among this career politicians. The class of 1999 have recycled political offices like their boys are doing right now.
The career unionist never run out of offices to hold. But they don't care, why? Cos no one cares and they don't care too.
But the society has continued to tell the best minds to remain within their shell like a paraplegic tortoise. Do not over dream, they keep whispering in our ears. The best minds that decide to attempt unionism are brought to a stand still.
"Why border, you have a secured future, become a good lawyer or architect or like me a very comfortable civil servant" this is what the parents of potential great leaders tell them. But they tell us that the politician is the reason we can't resume to school on time because they haven't paid salaries.
Irony.
The best minds will eventually stick to their dreams, finish and japa to America. They will go and meet the mentor you forced on them. They will treat Ben Carson as neurosurgeons when he becomes aged. They will not be here in Nigeria when you need them. And the unserious students you warned them not to become like will become governors and won't pay your pension.
It's a rabbit hole because our minds need to be transformed. The civil servant life was designed to keep the African just enough to work for his colonial masters.
Let children grow with their dreams. May be the guy you so wanted to become a Reverend father was a politician. The gifts you saw in him was from your mind. The doctor you saw was going to become like Ben Carson who after fulfilling his dreams decided to go into politics because everything rises and falls on politics, leadership.
If he can operate the brain with his hands he can operate policies with his mind. Maybe your girls path won't be same but the destination similar. She may have to go into unionism as a medical student, become a doctor, then the minister of health who will formulate policies that will make Nigeria malaria free. Let the children breathe.
The question you should be asking them now is can they handle it? How are they doing? Help them grow.
You see Beta Idu, her parents deliberately helped her fulfil her dreams. She wanted Public Health, her parents gave her the best, look at what she was able to achieve in a short a period of time.
Though she messed up, but you get it.
I'm sorry if I sounded rude, I'm not reading what I am writing now, I will come back and read it later.
But I meant not offence.
Thank you for your time.
