Tiv community leader challenges youths on Nigeria’s destiny

A Tiv community leader in Zaria, Dr. Joseph Nashakyaa, has urged Nigerian youths to stop being used by the elites to sabotage the growth and development of the country by involving in illicit practices. Nashakyaa made the call at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria while launching the Tiv students’ almanac, saying that youths determine […]

A Tiv community leader in Zaria, Dr. Joseph Nashakyaa, has urged Nigerian youths to stop being used by the elites to sabotage the growth and development of the country by involving in illicit practices.

Nashakyaa made the call at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria while launching the Tiv students’ almanac, saying that youths determine the destiny of any nation being leaders of tomorrow.

He said; “Our generation of elders who have no respect for posterity and lack strategic planning, mortgaging the future of children with overburdened debt, then steal from the debt to entrench Godfatherism and recruit the frustrated youths to be insulting and killing for peanuts.

“These elders are intolerable to brutal fact, which is why they surrounded themselves with sycophants that worship and serve them. Leadership is for the youths who are agile, energetic and can execute projects or programmes ethically. I am here to put life in your crippled legs that have confined you to be sitting beggarly for peanuts at the gates of crooks you say are your leaders for life.”

Dr. Abdulhamidu Abdullahi of the Department of Local Government Studies of ABU advised Tivs residing in Zaria to continue to live in peace with their hosts for national unity.