I am very angry and that is why I am addressing
you. You are the source of my anger and I want to vent my
spleen- maybe not at you directly- but at the arrogance of your
ignorance. Of all nations of the world, you are to be most pitied.
Do you still wonder what you have done?
You don’t have an Ivy League education but with the little below-
standard education you got, all you could do with it is to write a
petition against someone with the benefit of an Ivy League
education.
You can’t even run your personal economy as you’re almost
always and perpetually broke yet you arrogate to yourself superior
knowledge about the nation’s economy.
You sit in front of a computer and rant all day through social media
but with every click, you make money - not for yourself - but for
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook).
With every megabyte of data you spend complaining and maligning,
you make stupendous bucks for Etisalat, Glo and Airtel.
Over the next two years, the number of Nigerian millionaires will
jump by 47% but most likely you will not be among because you
are too busy whining and complaining. And yet about 60% of
Nigeria’s 170m population are below 35 years. Oh, what a waste!
By the way, Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he started facebook.
Africa’s youngest billionaire, Ashish Thakkar, is 31. He escaped
from the Rwandan genocide and relocated to Uganda where he
started an IT business. Collin Thornton, who made his millions by
fixing bad computers and setting up Dial-a-Nerd, is 35.
Adam Horowitz, an 18-year-old entrepreneur, started 30 websites in
3 years before he became successful.
The only thing you have ever started is an online petition.
Have you heard of Jason Njoku?
He’s 33 and the founder of Iroko TV. He received $8m investment
into his company just a few years ago. What he does? Sharing the
same Nollywood films that you spend hours to watch online. He
didn’t just hang around waiting for Buhari to make something
happen or blaming Jonathan for not making anything happen.
Kamal Budhabhatti was deported from Kenya but while on the flight,
he thought of the opportunities in Kenya. He found his way back
after 6 months and today his company is valued at $30m. He’s
36.
Have you heard of Chinedu Echeruo? Apple just paid $1b for his
app. He’s a Nigerian like you and all he did was attempt to fix a
problem. But for you, the only thing you attempt to fix are your
nails- and your hairdo! Chinedu moved to New York in 1995 and
found it difficult to navigate the city with ease so he developed
HopStop to fix the problem. Stop listing all the problems - we know
them already but what are you doing about them?
-Awolowo was 37, Akintola was 36, Ahmadu Bello was 36, Tafawa
Balewa was 34, Okotie-Eboh was 27 and Enahoro was 27 at the
time of independence of Nigeria.
In 1966, the first coup was led by Kaduna Nzeogwu (29) and
stopped by Murtala Mohammed (28), TY Danjuma (28),
IBB (25), Sanni Abacha (23) and Shehu Yaradua (23).
It brought in Yakubu Gowon as Head of State at 32 and Olusegun
Obasanjo at 29.
You are in your 40s and you still sag your trousers. Of course you
know Linda Ikeji. You’ve spent hundreds of hours on her blog
laughing and commenting while she smiles her way to the bank.
She’s just built a house for her father in the village- just by you
clicking on her gossip and sharing.
Your day is not complete without a stop by at her blog. She was as
broke as you are but she turned a hobby into a business. Are you
that void of understanding?
You think those politicians have any regard for you?
That is why I referred to the arrogance of your ignorance at the
beginning of this diatribe.
-You have a false estimation of yourself. You have an over bloated
ego.
-You are only as good as an election ticket - pure and simple.
-You are only good to used and discarded like a used ballot paper.
Who keeps a used ballot paper anyway?
That is why they only remember you every four years. You are like
a menstrual pad that is only useful during the menstrual period. Are
you hurt? Okay, let me help you.
Have you heard of Professor Olusola Adeyeye before?
He is a Senator of the Federal Republic at the moment. But before
he became a Senator, he was popular on facebook. Even more
popular than so many latter day facebookivists. I was one of his
many followers. He put up posts after posts and pander to populist
thinking. Then he was elected and one of the first things he did
was to deactivate his facebook account. Yes, you read me right.
Deactivate.
How many times do you still see El-Rufai’s tweets again? No
longer regular? That is how it will dwindle until he disappears
totally.
I’m not limiting it to the aforementioned alone and this is not
about any party. They are all the same.
Yet you falsely believe your future is in the hands of one politician.
You will grow grey hair with that belief. And by the time you wise
up, you’re on your way to the grave- not with a life expectancy
of less than 60 years in this clime.
Can you see you have wasted your time? And possibly your life?
See, people have been complaining since independence. And they will
still complain in 4 years. Will you be among them?
I agree with my friend who said Nigerian youth need mental
detoxification. And maybe I should add that you need a brain
transplant. Let me give you another example. I’ve watched you try
to pull some people down when you don’t like their face- or their
comments. You report them to facebook. And they get pulled down.
Momentarily. Just momentarily.
Do you know why? Facebook knows those people draw traffic. Their
posts get huge numbers of comments. And with every comment and
click, someone is making money. Will you allow your best customers
to leave? That is why though facebook pulled down Adeyinka
Grandson’s page, he was given a facebook fan page in return. Yes,
a fan page. You need to get
a job and you need to get a life. There is life away from facebook
or social media.
If you’re not making money from social media and you sleep on it,
you’re merely existing- you’re not living. I have seen some of
you take selfies and pose in all manner of ways as you paste your
photos on social media. Are you a photographer or are you selling
something that we don’t know? You’re unemployed because
you’re unemployable. You don’t have skills. Sorry, the major skill
you have is that of pointing out the problems and debating about
them. That’s a no brainer! You can’t even diagnose the problems
properly.
You think Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala is your problem? You are a self-
inflicted problem. You are afflicted with yourself and by yourself. If
you’re looking for the reason why you are the way, you are - look
no further than your mirror. Instead of occupying Nigeria, you should
occupy your brain. The only witch chasing you from your village is
you. It’s time to stop bewitching yourself.
Stop whining about lack of electricity or fuel. Do something about it.
Every adversity has a seed of opportunity embedded in it.
-Create something. Invent something. Start something.
Read up a book. Write a book. Take advantage of the present
situation.
Nigeria is a huge market. Nigeria is a virgin market. Waiting for
you. Unleash yourself. Release your passion. Follow your potential.
Invent your way to prosperity. Stop waiting for government,
government only needs you when they need your taxes. Don’t
depend on welfare.
People who depend on welfare don’t fare well. You think you lack
capital? No, the problem is not lack of capital but lack of ideas.
Just today, two men stepped into my wife’s office selling
the new portraits of Buhari and Osinbajo.
That’s someone grabbing an opportunity and seizing the moment. I
have a friend who started out by offering after-school lessons to
kids on her street- now she has a school.
I know a lady who was indigent and self-sponsored on campus. Each
night, she soaked beans and made ‘moin-moin’ in the morning for
sale on campus. I bought out of the moin moin as well as some
other students and that was how she paid her way through
University.
Not prostitution. Have you heard of A
her business with the last N1,000 she had on her.
Enough said.
Information is power....be informed!!!
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