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David Okorie wrote........... My dear Nigerian
Youth,
I am very angry and that is why I am
addressing you. You are the source of my
anger and I want to vent my spleen- maybe
not at you directly- but at the arrogance of
your ignorance. Of all nations of the world,
you are to be most pitied. Do you still
wonder what you have done?
You don’t have an Ivy League education but
with the little below-standard education you
got, all you could do with it is to write a
petition against someone with the benefit
of an Ivy League education. You can’t even
run your personal economy as you’re almost
always and perpetually broke yet you
arrogate to yourself superior knowledge
about the nation’s economy.
You sit in front of a computer and rant all
day through social media but with every
click, you make money- not for yourself- but
for Mark Zuckerberg. With every megabyte
of data you spend complaining and
maligning, you make stupendous bucks for
Etisalat, Glo and Airtel.
Over the next two years, the number of
Nigerian millionaires will jump by 47% but
most likely you will not be among because
you are too busy whining and complaining.
And yet about 60% of Nigeria’s 170m
population are below 35 years. Oh, what a
waste!
By the way, Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when
he started facebook. Africa’s youngest
billionaire, Ashish Thakkar, is 31. He escaped
from the Rwandan genocide and relocated
to Uganda where he started an IT business.
Collin Thornton, who made his millions by
fixing bad computers and setting up Dial-a-
Nerd, is 35. Adam Horowitz, an 18-year-old
entrepreneur, started 30 websites in 3
years before he became successful.
The only thing you have ever started is an
online petition. Have you heard of Jason
Njoku? He’s 33 and the founder of Iroko TV.
He received $8m investment into his
company just a few years ago. What he
does? Sharing the same Nollywood films
that you spend hours to watch online. He
didn’t just hang around waiting for Buhari
to make something happen or blaming
Jonathan for not making anything happen.
Kamal Budhabhatti was deported from
Kenya but while on the flight, he thought of
the opportunities in Kenya. He found his
way back after 6 months and today his
company is valued at $30m. He’s 36. Have
you heard of Chinedu Echeruo? Apple just
paid $1b for his app. He’s a Nigerian like you
and all he did was attempt to fix a problem.
But for you, the only thing you attempt to fix
are your nails- and your hairdo! Chinedu
moved to New York in 1995 and found it
difficult to navigate the city with ease so he
developed HopStop to fix the problem. Stop
listing all the problems- we know them
already but what are you doing about
them?
Awolowo was 37, Akintola was 36, Ahmadu
Bello was 36, Tafawa Balewa was 34,
Okotie-Eboh was 27 and Enahoro was 27 at
the time of independence of Nigeria. In
1966, the first coup was led by Kaduna
Nzeogwu (29) and stopped by Murtala
Mohammed (28), TY Danjuma (28), IBB (25),
Sanni Abacha (23) and Shehu Yaradua (23).
It brought in Yakubu Gowon as Head of
State at 32 and Obasanjo at 29. You are in
your 40s and you still sag your trousers.
Of course you know Linda Ikeji. You’ve
spent hundreds of hours on her blog
laughing and commenting while she smiles
her way to the bank. She’s just built a house
for her father in the village- just by you
clicking on her gossip and sharing. Your day
is not complete without a stop by at her
blog. She was as broke as you are but she
turned a hobby into a business. Are you that
void of understanding?
You think the politicians have any regard for
you? That is why I referred to the arrogance
of your ignorance at the beginning of this
diatribe. You have a false estimation of
yourself. You have an over bloated ego. You
are only as good as an election ticket- pure
and simple.
You are only good to used and discarded
like a used ballot paper. Who keeps a used
ballot paper anyway? That is why they only
remember you every four years. You are like
a menstrual pad that is only useful during
the menstrual period. Are you hurt? Okay, let
me help you. Have you heard of Prof Olusola
Adeyeye before?
He is a Senator of the Federal Republic at the
moment. But before he became a senator,
he was popular on facebook. Even more
popular than so many latter day
facebookivists. I was one of his many
followers. He put up posts after posts and
pander to populist thinking. Then he was
elected and one of the first things he did
was to deactivate his facebook account. Yes,
you read me right. Deactivate. How many
times do you still see El-Rufai’s tweets? No
longer regular? That is how it will dwindle
until he disappears totally. I’m not limiting it
to the aforementioned alone and this is not
about any party. They are all the same.
Yet you falsely believe your future is in the
hands of one politician. You will grow grey
hair with that belief. And by the time you
wise up, you’re on your way to the grave-
not with a life expectancy of less than 60
years in this clime. Can you see you have
wasted your time? And possibly your life?
See, people have been complaining since
independence. And they will still complain in
4 years. Will you be among them?
I agree with my friend who said Nigerian
youth need mental detoxification. And
maybe I should add that you need a brain
transplant. Let me give you another
example. I’ve watched you try to pull some
people down when you don’t like their face-
or their comments. You report them to
facebook. And they get pulled down.
Momentarily. Just momentarily.
Do you know why? Facebook knows those
people draw traffic. Their posts get huge
numbers of comments. And with every
comment and click, someone is making
money. Will you allow your best customers
to leave? That is why though facebook
pulled down Adeyinka Grandson’s page, he
was given a facebook fan page in return.
Yes, a fan page. You need to get a job and
you need to get a life. There is life away
from facebook or social media.
If you’re not making money from social
media and you sleep on it, you’re merely
existing- you’re not living. I have seen some
of you take selfies and pose in all manner of
ways as you paste your photos on social
media. Are you a photographer or are you
selling something that we don’t know?
You’re unemployed because you’re
unemployable. You don’t have skills. Sorry,
the major skill you have is that of pointing
out the problems and debating about them.
That’s a no brainer! You can’t even diagnose
the problems properly.
You think Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala is your
problem? You are a self-inflicted problem.
You are afflicted with yourself and by
yourself. If you’re looking for the reason
why you are the way you are- look no
further than your mirror. Instead of
occupying Nigeria, you should occupy your
brain. The only witch chasing you from your
village is you. It’s time to stop bewitching
yourself.
Stop whining about lack of electricity or fuel.
Do something about it. Every adversity has a
seed of opportunity embedded in it. Create
something. Invent something. Start
something. Read up a book. Write a book.
Take advantage of the present situation.
Nigeria is a huge market. Nigeria is a virgin
market. Waiting for you. Unleash yourself.
Release your passion. Follow your potential.
Invent your way to prosperity. Stop waiting
for government- government only needs
you when they need your taxes. Don’t
depend on welfare. People who depend on
welfare don’t fare well.
You think you lack capital? No, the problem
is not lack of capital but lack of ideas. Just
today, two men stepped into my wife’s
office selling the new portraits of Buhari
and Osinbajo. That’s someone grabbing an
opportunity and seizing the moment. I have
a friend who started out by offering after-
school lessons to kids on her street- now
she has a school.
I know a lady who was indigent and self-
sponsored on campus. Each night, she
soaked beans and made ‘moin-moin’ in the
morning for sale on campus. I bought out
of the moin moin as well as some other
students and that was how she paid her
way through University. Not prostitution.
Have you heard of Ayodeji Megbope? She
started her business with the last N1,000
she had on her by making moin moin. She is
the CEO of No Leftovers.
I have shared the story of ‘Akara Ayo’ and
invited him to talk to us before. He left his
banking job to start a business frying Akara
(bean cake) in Ibadan. And added some
innovation to it.
Start a snail farm. You can start it with less
than N100,000. I started it with nothing- I
just picked up snails in my compound and
raised them. In a couple of months, I had
raised close to a thousand. You have a car
and you are complaining you don’t have a
job? Convert it for car hire. Take it to the
airports and see how people will hire it for
the day. Liase with good hotels and place it
at their disposal. I met a young man in
Calabar who charges N1,500 per hour for
the use of his car. There is something in
your hand that can give you the future you
want. The best moment to start is now.
For God’s sake, just do something!
NB: This is just an article to stir up and
challenge people and it’s intention is not
derogatory in any form
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