Nigeria Youth : Hoodlums After Election, The Downtrodden During Campaign : See Your Life, "I concur" Politicians


Hoodlums, miscreants and rogues in this country are men and women with abilities living the lives of disabilities caused by lack of lack of leadership. And the number is increase astronomically everyday if left unchecked. 

During campaign and rally to win an election into office , we call the miscreants  the downtrodden, grassroots, even "my people". The nomenclature changed from street urchins or "agebros" to the poorest of the poor or "masses or the have nots". 

The cumulative impact of violence of the unwanted species of people in the society is caused by a leader who forget the so-called grassroots while in office only to remember them at the expiration of his or tenure. 
 Successive leaders have inherited this show of shame in silence. 

This is the time to give to the youth what belongs to them. Or else they will demand it at the door steps of the miscreants and vagabond in power. 

In a country of over 200 million people, every citizen is entitled to a Police. The current number of nearly 300, 000 police is not enough to guarantee rule of law, fair play and protect lives and property. A police who run out of emotions, is one who is experience shortage of equipments, gadgets and subordinate, excessive force or accidental discharge becomes the consequence. 

We should be convinced every police is special and specially trained to curtailed excesses of the miscreants after winning an election from the  grassroot, the downtrodden before vying for a position in politics. 

Nobody is a hoodlum in this country. Period. No human being is completely good or bad if not a product of physical, psychological, spiritual and economic environment. It is the defective environment that is responsible for some of the things we do. 

No rational human beings will blame his or her failure on the economy of a nation like Nigeria. Because everyone is fighting a harder battle to stand tall among peers,  occupy the center of his or her own world and never be victimized by it. This is in recognition of the fact a purposeful government has no business in busines. All the people branded as miscreants, hoodlums, thugs etc are demanding for a leader that can create enabling environment where businesses can thrive and everyone can go to bed with two eyes closed.

 It does not happen by Fiat,  the youth that is the hub in the wheel of economic progress must be actively be engaged in policy making at the boardroom of governance down to implementation level. The worst thing that can happen in government is to use senility or old age solution to solve young and ebullient youth matters. It becomes something greatly worse to use private solution to solve public matters.

I have much to say 

Inah Stephen Eyiene, Columnist in Koginfo

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