Nigeria and African society for has been paying lip service to the issue of youth agenda.
Barr. Maurice Oru Ebam a lawyer, youth and women advocate for inclusion in politics and advocate for Africa Agenda 2063, former National Youth Leader of African Democratic Congress (ADC), former Interim Chairman Forum of National Youth Leaders of Political Parties in Nigeria and National Youth Leader of Allied Peoples Movemen(APM) made this known has has the world mark International Youth Day.
Youths who are often engaged or patronised are youths from influential families while the family of elites themselves only join to chorus youth inclusion in other to make room for their children who they only want to take over from them.
According to him, “So after all the years we have sacrificed and suffered in the hands of older corrupt politicians and leaders they will still want us to continue such legacies of endurance in the hands of their children who they hide under the agenda of Youth inclusion to force them down our throats.
Godforbid.
“In the 2023 general elections we saw that more than 97% of the youths who won elections in the House of Assembly or House of Representatives where children of this so called corrupt politicians and leaders.
“We the youths in Nigeria do not have equal opportunities due to the discrimination base on class or social staus in society.
Bar Ebam further posited, “In Nigeria the ruling class has made it seem seemingly impossible that a son of a nobody maynot be a somebody.
“No Nigerian is more Nigerian than any other Nigeria.
“No serious society must see youths as a subset of the agenda, we are the real issue,” he said.
