Analysis: Those Who Destroyed Nigeria Were Born Between 1956-1976 - Bamidele Ademola-Olateju

Don't you think change begin with you!

 Bamidele wrote on her facebok wall thus:

Their fathers labored for Nigeria. They built a nation from nothing to something. They fought and won the civil war. They were good in anything they did. They were mostly teachers, civil servants, artisans, farmers and traders. Few were lawyers, doctors and engineers. Regardless of their profession, they toiled to educate their children. They were hard working, largelyincorruptible and very God fearing.They believed in family. They were stern disciplinarians. They imbibed the work ethics of the colonialists. Those who areeducated were very bright and sound by every definition. They trained their children and children of extended familymembers. They were frugal and contented. They built our public institutions.They gave their children the best education they could afford. They denied themselves. They showed their children the way of God early. Religious bigotry was unknown to them. They were apostles of free association and religion.Their children grew up and became self absorbed! They jettisoned all they were taught. They are the most hypocritical inthe history of Nigeria. They never foughtfor anything, they hold no enduring beliefs, no defining values and they stand for nothing.The worst generation brought college education into the mainstream. They arevery educated and very credentialed. They went to the best schools in Nigeriaand the world. They grew up in Nigeria’s gilded age. Oil money was flowing freely. They did not take cue from the upright in their father’s generation. They modeled their lives after the deviants of their parents generation. Their parents were noble, they were feckless!The worst generation are enamored withmaterial accumulation. They are avaricious and venal. They met a sterling civil service and corrupted it. They were handed a promising health sector and they kcompromised it. They were educated in budding world class facilities, they ruined it. Their father tilledthe soil, they disdain it. They discarded their culture and equated it with filth. They rejected their native language as not modern and unfit to be spoken. Theytraded their brain for money. They embraced Islam and Christianity and became more intolerant.The worst generation abandoned optimistic meritocracy. They unmoored Nigeria and reshaped it, as a nation of no standard. They abandoned the stew of shame we were fed that ostracizes the aberrant. They love travel, exotic vacations, luxury goods and anything with a high price tag. All these are not bad in themselves if they were able to acquire them from their own sweat. No! They are patently unable to distinguish between their pockets and the treasury. They are masters of conspicuous consumption.Their parents handed them strong communal ethos, they subtracted themselves to become individualistic and self-centered. Their fathers were open, they are closed and bigoted. Their parents gave back to society, they removed from it.They are addicted to a life of short cuts. They bought exam questions and admissions for their children to gain unfair advantage. They look for every opportunity to isolate themselves in their cocoon of indifference. They sweartheir children will not suffer as they did. Funny! This is not the generation that fetched wood for sale to go to school. This is not the generation that worked during the day to write Exam Success and City and Guilds during the night. They are insufferable asses who project their hedonism on their children.Look around! This is the generation in the Senate and the House of Representatives. They are the ones occupying the governor mansions today. They are the one on EFCC’s list. They are the lawyers holding Nigeria hostage. They are the saboteurs of Nigeria’s economy. They are the enemies of Nigeria. They are the problem. They gave birth to the aimless and miseducated youths. They mortgaged Nigeria. History will record them as the worst or at best, the rot of Nigeria will be traced to them. Sadly, I was born within those years!

Bamidele Ademola- Olateju tweets @Olufunmilayo