In 2016, some youths that graduated from various Institutions of Higher Learning, in Kogi State and were recruited to spread lies on the various cables praising this administration that is leading Kogi to a deep hell.
These boys that have spent close to 5years preparing to go and face the labour market with the hope of securing a good job in order for their future and that of their family be secured especially their mums and dads. But unfortunately, they ended up as a political thug probably in the interim to make ends meet. To cut a long story short, few days after the inauguration of Ward Coordinators, the Coordinators with their groups went all out brandishing dangerous weapons in solidarity to the interest of their political Godfather. Information has it that everyone of the group was given five thousand naira each and an Itel 1506 phones respectively as the benefit for the assignment at hand.
In the political struggle, a youth was short dead after the whole issue. His group brought him to the home of the political father to show that they lost a team member. The response of their master shocked everyone to their bone marrow.
The political godfather told the group to search the pocket of their dead member if they would found the five thousand naira and the Itel phone given to him as his share of the assignment, provided he hasn’t spent it. They did as told and they found the money and the phone. Immediately the man responded that they should take the money to get a car and take the young man to his family or a cemetery because he doesn’t have a cemetery in his house. At least he settled everyone for the assignment.
In conclusion, that was the end of a generation. The end of a youth whose parents have struggled to build for a better future. That was the end of a young man who would have been a pillar for his younger ones. Even the political Godfather’s children were not part of the election violence talk less of his relatives.
Let us think twice before falling to the temptation of greedy politicians. We are humans like them and we are entitled to every benefit accrued to us as a Nigerian.
Dont be deceived to shedding human blood.
Your vote is your power!! Vote wisely !!!
Never allow yourself to be bootlicker. Never to be buried in the the now but to work very hard and tirelessly towards a future that holds the utmost promises.
Never for any reason allow yourself to take peanuts. I call it peanuts because every ill-gottenness only has its leads in temporariness – for the sale of your conscience and a future you hold so dear its offering of everything in decency.
And not give yourself the chance to participate in the promises of the now where the only guarantees are wastages. And these wastages are everywhere in the stupid compromise we are inducted.
However, I have a word of advice for youths.“The world might look oblique and appear like it has ended, but the truth is that it is just beginning”.
– Hon Alfa Tijani, a progressive minded youth, social crusader, writes from Ajaka, Igalamela /Odolu LGA Of Kogi State.
Contact : hon.tijanialfa@gmail.com
