The future of the nation builders towards Education

As we celebrate the father's day, I feel a dashing pain in my heart, a pain inflicted by the lackadaisical attitude of the so called fathers in the Nation towards EDUCATION, the bedrock of the nation building'.

Olajide Elijah Oluwafemi aka Aare

They see no reason for improving or contributing to making the educational state a better one because their children are not entangled in the web of this educational crisis. 

After series of strike, school fees hike, so much effort put in by the student to pass and earn a certificate, they become graduates whose certificates is laid waste because of the unemployment in the country.

 A quote from president Buhari stated "Degree certificate is not assurance to get a Job" 

It is so sardonic that the value of our Education is directly proportional to the value of our Naira, both have drastically devalued to the extent that a certificate earned remains a paper useless to the holder. What troubles me most is not the rate of unemployment in the country but the sensitisation of vocational training preached by the so called government who have failed in every dimension in giving the youths a better future. 

Those wicked homo sapeins tell graduates to embrace vocational trainings whereas their children do not do the same. They have refused to create jobs for youths and they come on the media to say graduates should learn vulcanising, bricklaying, farming, shoe making after spending time in the school racking their brains to graduate. 

Some years back, I remember a sensitization programme on the importance of Education, then it was a means out of poverty, not anymore now.

If we keep watching these go on, our certificates will be rendered useless by these gluttonous group of heartless humans. 

Look around you, you'll notice that 40% of the youth is into internet fraud, 50% graduates have dumped their certificates in a corner, learning and doing one trade or the other just to survive hunger. 90% of the undergraduates are already discouraged and have lost faith in education still in school. 

Education has lost its value in the country to the extent that  it's the so called graduates that are doing the most unskilled labour in the country. Come to NYSC, the most thing you do in camp is learn one trade or the other, they preach to you to indulge in it so that you won't be idle when you leave SERVICE because there is 80% probability that you may remain unemployed two, three years after your service year. 

"Why should I waste 5 years in the institution, passing through all those stress of rigorous exams, waste the funds that could have been used to start a good business and start a good family and later go learn barbing, bricklaying, sewing, fish production,..... Hmmm" is the question undergraduates ponder day in, day out. 

Do you even know some of our parents are still in debt of the funds with which they paid our fees, some are out of business because they used up their capital to pay for those fees, after graduation, most of our parents look so wretched, they now need our help to survive, and now we  children are just starting petty business to survive. 

Calling us the leaders of tomorrow, and telling us to go into agriculture while they sponsor their children to diaspora to come back and take over their business or become the next Gargantua politician. 

Should this political and human menace continue??? 

I don't even have the answer because I'm one of those graduates. 

One day I know we'll be out of this mess. 

I stand for a better Nigeria🇳🇬

Happy father's day.