Let's hope the youths will have the time and more courage to protest against the criminal hike in school fees which will lead to many youths dropping out of school. Just recently a female UNILAG student cried out during a students' protest against the senseless hike in their school fees.
She lamented: "I don't want to drop out". Her battle cry is not for her alone. It's also for all students/ youths from poor homes like Mohbad. If she and others drop out of school due to a hike in school fees, they may head to Lekki in Lagos or other "Lekki" in other states in search of survival, and may also end up with predators, drug barons, political mafia homosexual and other gangsters.
As we are rightfully remembering the dead with pain in our hearts, wanting to know the cause of his untimely death, I strongly feel the living youths should also remember themselves and others and the causes of their own misery, mass poverty, illiteracy, half education, unemployment in the midst of abundant national wealth looted by rogue politicians and other criminals. Mohbad's death is a time to reflect seriously on youth challenges.
No doubt our youths are under severe economic and bad peer pressure. Indeed "pressure ti wa" as one youth truthfully confessed during Buhari-Emefele naira recolouring madness that created aggressive naked customers inside empty bank halls.
The youths of today are the ultimate victims of bad government and the politics of gangsterism that ravages society. Bad governance and mass poverty, have further destroyed parenthood, extended family structure, and good neighbourliness that the older generations enjoyed. No more communal children that the whole community rallied around to help survive when in economic distress due to the loss of patents or products of very poor families. Of course, they will return to the same community and other neighbourhoods as criminals with few exceptions.
Indeed "Pressure ti wa" for the youths. Who are the role models they look forward to be and copy their characters? Who are the mentors the morally wrecked society tossed at them, and what philosophy of life does society inculcate in them? The "get rich quick by all means" criminal elites, political gangsters, popular crooks, looters, credit card scammers, identity thieves, forgers, kill & go land grabbers, high profile prostitutes and other unscrupulous elements society unleashed on them as role models. A society of criminal ruling elites will definitely produce more criminal youths who will make other youths victims of gangsterism in their desperate search for survival on the streets.
Adeola Soetan