Dear Nigerians, You Need To Read This

You're old now and you can't change your fate so you try to appear holier than thou and paint us black

By- Adebayo Hammed

‏Monday, 16th/April/2018

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, etc

But lemme tell them this, we weren't the ones who went abroad on government scholarships, 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. Every old man/woman everywhere would tell a young person there's no job, that we are lazy and should become entrepreneurs, I understand the whole narrative of creating jobs blah blah blah

But excuse me Sir and Ma. You've been gainfully employed as a government worker since the 80's how many jobs have you created, how many business did you venture into, it's funny how kettle calls the pot black.

You all are scared to retire into misery, and carry placards for unpaid pension. So you changed your date of birth and fight for elongated stay in public service thereby giving less room to young, vibrant, able bodied men to take up offices and move the country forward.

You said I should start a company, but excuse me Sir and Ma, how many companies did you start when you left 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 "feel good" doing "lagos night life". Your generation are the ones in the Senate looting away our future but you're more concerned with us having tattoos and dreadlocks. Your generation are the ones in the Senate looting away our future but you're more concerned with us having tattoos and dreadlocks. Your generation failed itself and voila!!! It's time to blame the youth for moral decadence.. must I remind you of your rapacious culture?

Was it not your generation that instead of investing money you rather change new notes and spray musicians at parties and you complain that the younger generation lust after money, was it not your generation that prioritized ill-gotten wealth over hard earned salary?  Who went to America to start credit card scam? Was it the Yahoo boys of today. Who went to Italy to prostitute and demean the Nigerian woman, was it the slay mama of today.

I can go on and on, but I get it.

You're old now and you can't change your fate so you try to appear holier than thou and paint us black with a paint brush from Vincent Van Gogh and probably cut our ears off with your sharp criticism.

All we are today is what you made us, and all we are not is your fault. Education is bad, is it my generation that wrote WAEC in the 2000's that are handling educational policies? Abi is it not your generation that is asking for 5 round of sex to pass a student? How many of my pharmacist friends has license to import tramadol? We pray that God deliver us from the shackles you put on us by the years you wasted doing things that hurt our future. We know you people want to render us useless so we won't take charge but we will very soon.

And to my generation "osha pran pran" people. 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 generations in Nigeria from it's inception ( don't ask where I got my data from ). Let's take our trade out of Nigeria. Let's be the commercial hub of Africa.

Let's enlarge our coast, lets get client from west Africa for a start and conquer Africa as a whole. We are The Business Generation and we Shall Succeed. 

Have a Great Day

Credit: @harmillygrinds