Now That Our Country Risks Losing Her Youths to Drugs and Mental Health Crises, General Marwa and President Tinubu, Do Something

Prof:  Good day everyone. How was the holiday?

All Students:  The struggle continues

Prof:  Did any of you by chance travel to Burkina Faso, Rwanda, South Africa or that country near Egypt?

14th Student: I didn’t go to any of those countries but I was in Israel for pilgrimage and everyone please join me to thank God that we left before the attack on Gaza. Who knows what would have happened to us

3rd Student: It is better to die in a holy land while conducting holy pilgrim than to die of insecurity in your town.

8th Student: That is true. Holy Mary, the way small boys whose specialization is drug, drug and drugs have taken over our country is worrisome.

Prof: Oh pity pity. When you gave birth to children and handed over them to roadside reformists,  caregivers, uneducated teachers, self acclaimed philanthropists and name it: that is what you get- a society with a new generation of young persons with mental health issues. And let me remind you, anyone with mental health issue can kill his entire family. If he sees a gun he can finish an entire community and if that gun is AK-47 and they are up to one hundred of such adolescents with possibly some locally made explosives and  drugs as we saw in a viral video recently, then know that the  citizens of that country are in big trouble.

All Students: That is where we find ourselves ooooo Prof

Prof: l know and it is the reason I fear for our country. In fact l will soon jakpa.

Prof: Please don’t jakpa oooo. Tell us what we don’t know yet Sir

Prof: You know everything. The only thing you fail to realize is that as parents which most of you are, despite being postgraduates, don’t have time for your children. You are busy chasing degrees and money. To worsen matter, some of you drink to stupor in front of your children. Some of you even smoke Coke and bring concubines to your matrimonial homes. What kind of children would you be raising in that situation? Oh pity pity. I hear some of you are even complaining about this year’s JAMB. You have not seen anything yet, my Professor friend and CEO of JAMB, Prof Oloyede  is going to make things even harder for those children of yours that you paid someone to write common entrance for and sorted someone to make sure he or she has 9As in his or her senior school West Africa Examination. What you don’t know is that when some of them gain admission into tertiary institutions, their brains can not cope with the teachings. So some fail woefully in their 100, 200 or even 300 levels and before you know it, they crash out of school. Most of them you see involved in kidnappings, terrorism, robberies, and so on were introduced to same when they dropped out of school. Some went into cultism vandalism, oil bunkering etc out of frustration and for some, lack of jobs and now our country is burning.

17th Student: This year’s  poor JAMB result is as a result of system failure

27th Student: Our country is finished

36th Student: It has to be so because you can not preach morality to a hungry man

26th Student: Why do we have the Police, Army, Immigration, NDLEA, Church and Mosque?

4th Student: What will happen to our next generation and our country, the greatest black nation?

Prof: l agree that we are the  nation with the largest black people on earth but are we still the giant of Africa? Go to South Africa. Do you know that Rwanda has just lunched its 1st Smart Phone factory in Africa and Ninja is searching for where  cows will sleep across the 36 states including the federal capital territory?  Let me shock all of you. One out of every seven Nigerians between the age of 15 and 64 uses drugs. Do you know that children  as young as 11 years now take substances l don’t want to mention. The video of children taking drugs went viral the other day. For you to know that we are sitting on a time bomb, 14.4 per cent of Ninja people between the age of 15 and 64 are already afflicted by drugs and are either deformed for life or challenged already. Several thousands are in prison convicted for one crime or the other. If only our leaders can use our strength for massive agricultural development and technological innovations.

9th Student: But our children don’t also want to suffer like we did while growing up.

Prof: Some gave their children everything while they were growing up so what do you expect? Some have nothing to give their children so what do you expect those children to equally become? Princes and Princesses?