An agenda for youths

IF the youth are leaders of tomorrow, what they are expected to be today must be stipulated by the society. We have a society that has shelved all moral consciousness and embraced moral decadence. Our sick society has not stopped birthing new generations of citizens with perverse values and will bear the brunt in line with the adage that says  that”he who produces a criminal child must bear full responsibility for that child.”

Our society actively sustains the ingredients that facilitate the high level of moral degradation in the world today.

However, even though our society might have made us what we are as humans, like the proverbial man with a wounded leg, we must, in our own interest, rush towards the medicine man in order to get relief from this self-inflicted agony.

The interval between childhood and adulthood is regarded as a period of youthful existence. The youth of a nation are its go-getters; they are the active, proactive and agile part of the country’s population. They decide the trends in such a country, they determine the rate at which the nation develops and what type of development it should attain. We are in the 21st century, the electronic century, the period when everything moves at a supersonic rate.

However, rather than being amazing, Nigerian youths have turned themselves into elements of amusement. They have shelved the advantages offered by the technological advancement in the world and opted for the myriad of disadvantages offered by this technology. At the birth of the information  communications and technology (ICT), we realised that the world was becoming a global village and that this would be advantageous to all, but Nigerian youths made ICT an instrument for fraudulent activities, theft, deceit and perversion. Our youths only want to be rich and not wealthy; they have been infected by the popular get-rich-quick syndrome and every legal means of getting wealth seems to be slow and archaic.

Our youths need to look inwards and see what value they can add to the society. They must look for something good in everything they come across, they must see themselves as those that would dictate the future of the world.

Jimoh Hammed— mroctomed@gmail.com.