Awakening A Generation: A Call To Kogi Youths And Elders

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“Every generation must out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, to fulfil or betray it.” – Frantz Fanon.
When we look round this society that we live in and try to get an evaluation of this current generation, we are faced with a shocking discovery of how far down we have fallen, how weak our moral chain has become, how low our sense of societal awakening has gone and how comfortably we sit on a keg of gunpowder.
If any sincere seeking leader looks deeply at Kogi State at the present, will agree that from the best of intentions, we don’t have a true purposeful leadership in Kogi State. Policies, reforms and laudable economic strategies have been postulated but have largely failed in changing the plight of the common man that are grappling with the harsh realities of poverty, poor health care, failing infrastructures and decaying human capital.
Late Dr Stephen Makoji Achema and Prince Abubakar Audu. I concurred with visionaries, thattrue visionary leaders can take their state from practically nowhere to somewhere. These two distinguished leaders were youthful when they began their agitations for a better Kogi State. They were vision-driven, selfless, and sacrificial. And their pursuits paid off.
Kogi sadly is bedevilled with enormous challenges raging from leadership to ethnicity, to religion, to mis-governance and what have you. Kogi with its vast natural resources has what it takes to overcome these challenges.
Kogi state requires a leadership with a bold and audacious transformational agenda to radically transform the national economy, reform the polity and repair our social fabric. For me, radical transformational leadership is what is required to revolutionize Kogi’s path to national development. And no other set of people or class of people can do so than the youth.
What we have in Kogi State today are:
Mis-governance and poor representation of the people leading to embezzlement and treasury loot.
Flawed leadership recruitment system which admits crooks and sycophants into leadership positions.
Rogue political leadership culture that enlists thugs, thieves and questionable characters into leadership positions.
Recycling of old worn-out and clueless leaders who should not serve in advisory capacity.
Leaders without strong character, purpose, vision and mission for Kogites.
With the above realities playing out in our politics today, I doubt if any respite can be achieved in the current crop of leadership. Except credible, purpose-driven and visionaries leaders rise to the challenge. And this squarely lies on the youth. We need leadership but not from old and recycling leaders but from young, energetic, vibrant and emerging leaders. The elders should take on an advisory role.
– Tijani Alfa

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