The Youths according to United Nations is believed to be people with the age bracket of 15-24 years, the Ministry of Youths and Sport in Nigeria in 2019 says the youth are people who are in the age bracket of 18-35years, while to a layman, youths are believed to be people between the age bracket of 15-45years old. These groups of people formed the larger part of th population and electorate during elections in a country hence they become vulnerable in the hands of the politicians.
The Politicians are elected officials into any government parastatals and votef by the people for a period of time. In Nigeria today, We have Politicians and Political elites who have been in the system for decades and still have full force on the governance of the day.
The Politic elites are those leaders who are in the age bracket of 60 years and above and are ever relevant in the Government of a country. These set of people are so mastered in the system of Government and could brainwashed the youths of the day for the selfish interest. They are so grounded in the system and understood the preys of the weak and fragile youths who would sell their mandates, right and vote for peanuts and crumbles from their table. These generation of political elites have what it takes to keep the youths at the call and beckon and indeed have kept them on the scale of living at the mercy of politicians, only few progressive political elites see the need to build anf groom the youth to empower them to be useful for themselves, the nation and become a leader in the making.
The Youths of Nigeria had long been deprieved from the kind of morals, exposure, education and mentorship that will empower them to be leaders and ewuiiped politicians in the making for the development of the grassroot, state and National development of the country, which could have given the Youths the voice to demand true and corrective accountability from the political elites in the country.
The Youths have long been deprived from the mentality of being innovative and competitors with the so-called political elites ruling the country for aged in order to secure the development of Nigeria's economy.
The Government Agencies and Financial Institutions in the Country are also not helping the with the issues on ground. The employment rate had gotten to the barest minimum which had rendered many youths jobless and idle and even those who choose the entrepreneurial and agricultural sectors have not enjoyed much financial stability and growth with the high rate of interest given to them by the banks, microfinance homes and other financial institutions.
The Politicians had made the larger percentage of the youth bracket in the country become liability and instruments of political thuggery as a result of unemployment or lack of financial support from family, leaders and Government.
How many of our politicians and leaders are engaged in genuine and functional empowerment programmes to help the youths around them? Majority of such programmes ended up becoming another scam or fraudulent ways of taking the little from this less-privilege under the disguised of helping them, yet they account to using millions of naira meant for the constituency to carry out such initiatives. Until the Youths raise their voice as one to speak against the use of Youths as instruments of destruction by the Politicians it will continue to be a trend till forever.
In the Youth Community today in our Nation, We have the Educated, Empowered And Privileged who formed a little percentage and are doing well for themselves and seeking the development of the nation while the larger part are the Poor, Deprieved and Angered Youths who are daily becoming destructive citizens and criminals causing the social ills in the land,they are the ones seen as tools for politicians to carry out their agendas and would never be seen as an agents of change.
As Youths and leaderd of tomorrow of our dear Country, where do we Stand? What happens to our tomorrow if we continue to allow politicians twist our mindset and use us against ourselves in the name of political differences and ideology and they keep stealing our mandates so we do not have the power for corrective participation as youths in the Governace.
What happens to our tomorrow???
M'o Empress
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