The way the older generation (anybody born before 1975) are going about this charade of calling our generation lazy and not hardworking is bizarre. They try to make us the problem and forget they are the problem.
They say we are science students,we take Tramadol, constitute nuisance etc. But hear this, we weren't the ones who went abroad on government scholarship, we weren't the ones who ate full chicken in school and drank milk.
We never saw a Nigeria flowing with milk and honey because they concerned themselves with eating and not thinking. They unlike biblical Pharaoh didn't store in the time of plenty against FAMINE.
Every old man and woman everywhere would tell a young person there is no job, that we are lazy and should become entrepreneurs, I understand the whole narrative of creating job blah blah... but excuse me sir and ma, you've been gainfully employed as a government worker since the 80s. How many jobs have you created?
It's funny how kettle calls the pot black. You are all scared to retire into misery and carry placards for unpaid pension. So you change your date of birth and fight for elongated stay in public service thereby giving less rooms to young vibrant, able bodied men to take up offices and move the country forward.
You said I should start a company, how many companies did you start when you left the University and got a house and a nice "tortoise car". How many land did you buy when there was bumper harvest during the days of the oil boom? Were you not buying wigs and dancing to James Brown's "feel good" doing "lagos night life".
Your generations are the ones in senate looting away our future, but you are more concerned with us having tattoos, dreads and saging trousers. Your generation failed itself and VOILA!! It's time to blame youth for moral decadence.... must I remind you of rapacious culture?
Was it not your generation that instead of investing money, you rather change new notes and spray musicians at parties, so many faults left unmentioned, you are old now and cannot change your fate so you try to appear holier.
All we are today is what you made us.
Education is bad, it is my generation that is handling educational policies. Abi is it not your generation that is asking for 5 ROUNDS OF SEX to pass a student?
We know know you want to render us useless so we won't take charge,but we will and very soon get our right.
And to my Y2K generation, let's get sense as we are already following the path of failure. Let's do right and the future would be bright. in the history of Nigeria, we have more entrepreneurs in our generation than the whole generation in Nigeria from its inception. Let's take our trade out of Nigeria. Let's be commercial hub of Africa.
Let's enlarge our coast, let's enlarge our coast, let's gain client from West Africa for a start and conquer Africa as a whole. We are the business generation and we shall succed.
Do have a blessed day.
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Culled from "http://www.nairaland.com/4460902/old-generation-youth"