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“How can they change if they haven’t been empowered? How can they be empowered if they haven’t been trained? How can they be trained,if they haven’t be encouraged?
Youth empowerment has be masked lately as stomach infrastructure, with no lasting effect, but rather selfish motives of the giver or sponsor. The obviously huge and scary reality of marginalisation in the kogi state civil service and the percentage of unemployment has shown how Bunu youth has been neglected, down trodden over the years and has been denied equity and justice.
Bunu district of Kabba-Bunu local government area of kogi state, is not only a blessed land with great minds but its also blessed with a huge demographic percentage of youth as a window of opportunity to the state and country ,if the government and other stakeholders could invest into empowerment, education and employment of Bunu youth.
We, the young people of Bunu land, are hungry for better options. We say ‘NO’ to the status quo and demand a better future. We are passionate to bring trophies in sports, new inventions in science, honour in academics, and keep effective value chain in agriculture.
The journey to empowerment should go way far from petty stipends or materials. Its time for a serious government to focus on the major issues of growth and development, far from just school attendance but an enabling studying environment, away from the dilapidated primary and secondary school structures scattered all over Bunu land. Let’s move from eye sore laboratories and libraries to effective scholarship and sponsorship as a culture to honour diligence and dedication.
In a nutshell, there’s an urgent need for the diversification of training or empowerment into entrepreneurship; small and medium scale businesses, vocational trainings/ institutes, ICT, establishment of technical schools, promote the economic aspect of our local crafts, encourage mechanized agriculture among youths and even include credible Bunu youth in the process of governance.
At this juncture, in the history of the Bunu people of Kogi state, we say; ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
– Isaac Kayode Obajemu writes from Bunu.
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