BY ADEYEMI OKEDIRAN
The rightful position of the youth within the framework of national development of any society needs to be critically analyzed.
Any country with abundance of disillusioned and frustrated youths can never achieve its full potentials. That’s the universal truth.
One factor that’s crystal clear is that once we provide a platform for youth participation in public life, the positive prospects are endless.
This is often due to the energy, originality and creativity in thoughts and approach that youths bring over to the table.
The most frustrated section of our society is the youth. Over the years, the ripple effect of their lack of inclusion has prevented this otherwise vibrant clan from taking part in their rightful role within the evolution of the society they found themselves.
The onset of declining economic process has solely amplified the hardship being felt by youths across the board. In turn, the youths have been a number of the toughest hit, in want of imperative attention.
It is an established fact that today’s young are tomorrow’s innovators, thinkers, inventors, builders, and leaders, but they need the total support to pull down barriers and to remodel their ideas at the long run.
Globally, youths have created, and are still making marks in numerous fields of human endeavours together with sterling display of leadership skills.
The youth is an asset for national growth and development. There’s no gainsaying within the undeniable fact that the youths are in the productive stage of their lives. They need proper orientation from the responsible adults to approach the civic world with a positive mentality, youth agencies and civil rights teams must come in this respect to make sure that the youth build impact in national development of their several countries.
Generally, youths have innovative ideas and are turned on for modification in any capability they realize themselves, but the abundant desired modification within the political landscape will solely happen if the efforts of the youths are inspired by the larger society.
The youth must incline an opportunity to make use of their intellect. The young professionals from numerous academic backgrounds can create significant impacts within the economy by approach of contesting for elections and being appointed into political offices.
A passion to serve and move Nigeria towards her destiny must be at the centre of their hearts. It is bound that there’s nearly variant youth within the space, capable of and actively seeking work but being unable, for some reasons, to access good employment. As a result, their life decisions are considerably restricted, and that they are progressively exposed to a variety of vulnerabilities and threats. It’s disheartening.
We must ask ourselves why this is happening. Despite the non-public and money investment that goes into getting an education or occupation skills, it’s shameful that such efforts are undervalued within the next stages of one’s life due to a socioeconomic, political and cultural structure that failed to ensure inclusion and participation.
However, if they’re neglected and not provided opportunities to be productive, these same youths will exacerbate social tensions in their communities because as the English saying goes,” an angry man is a hungry man.”
Therefore, economic growth opportunities through youth development are galore if broach and nurtured fittingly. This is an undeniable fact that is accepted by all and varied, that the importance of youths as veritable tools for the development of any nation can’t be over stressed, neither can any society neglect her youths within the scheme of things in her quest after National, social, economic and political development.
