Youths are important in the development of any nation.For this reason, a popular aphorism says: Youths are leaders of tomorrow. However, for a better understanding of that aphorism, bishop Godfrey Onah says, 'Youths are not only leaders of tomorrow but leaders of today'. Nevertheless, there is a fundamental problem concerning the realization or concretization of youths being leaders of today or tomorrow.
The piecing swords to the aforementioned aphorism is a case where the youths are living a lackadaisical life, portraying 'it does not concern me attitude', towards the issues of: Politics, patriotism, national consciousness, national morality and national development.
It is a thing of tears that youths whom are supposed to be agents of change are being used by the politicians or people who are contributing to the poverty factor of the country. Youths on there own due to bad influence have lost the consciousness that they are the leaders of today.
The youths are the powers of any nation and the fall of the youths is the fall of the centre which Achebe noted that when things fall apart, the center will not hold. Again the ignorant level among the youths towards their duties and rights have generated to a pinnacle of the rich and the nobles using the nation to do whatever they Will. For them, the country is not ours but theirs; it has generated to corrupted leaders and citizens.
Considering what is going on among the youths today, Kenneth asserted, 'OUR YOUTHFUL GENERATION TODAY, IF NOTHING IS DONE ABOUT IT, WE WILL BE WORSE THAN THIS CURRENT POLITICIANS'.
The perennial question is, what is wrong? Many youths engage in thuggry, kidnapping, cultism, and every thinkable evil. The fall of Rome St. Augustine opined was because they left morality. The youths have left morality, the youths are fallen.
Are you a youth? It should be brought to your subconscious consciousness that you are an agent of change and freedom. Change of good leaders, change of good citizens and change in economy and social aspect of man. You are agent of freedom. Freedom from evil leadership, freedom from corrupt people and freedom in all ramification.
Hence for us to be agent of change, we must be changed ourselves. Change must proceed within and from there, like a light it radiates to the whole place.
Every youth must say to him/herself: I AM AN AGENT OF CHANGE AND FREEDOM ! and should also put it in practice by CHANGING HIMSELF.
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