A member of Volunteer Service Overseas, Mr. Michael Young, a
citizen of United Kingdom has charged Nigerian youths to stay in their country
to contribute to its development instead of risking their lives searching for
unreal greener pasture.
Young, who stated this along his counterpart, Miss Samuel
Joy Ben during a press conference in Ilorin to mark the beginning of
International Youth Day celebration in collaboration with National Youth
Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Kwara State chapter, said immigrants could make it
in their countries without embarking on dangerous journey.
Narrating his experience with Nigerian immigrants in UK,
Young disclosed that his contact with a Nigerian man with his family in his
country was not palatable.
“I met him in the toilet, he told me he has a wife and
children in Nigeria whom he had to cater for. He told me he has to work for 15
hours washing toilets in different places.
“The question is, why can’t they stay in Nigeria? You can’t
make it in this country because life in UK is too expensive. Youths can be in
Nigeria and contribute to the development of the country”.
The volunteer, who appealed to government to ensure good
policies on education, said it is through compulsory education for children
between 6 to 18 years that helped UK to reduce poverty and youth unrest.
Young caution Nigerian youths and immigrants to be sure of
where they are going if at all they want to travel abroad, stressing that the
risk facing foreigners are too challenging.
His counterpart, Miss Ben advised Nigerian youths to change
their attitude towards acquisition of money, stressing that there are many ways
they could contribute meaningful to the society.
In his reaction, the Chairman of NYCN, Comrade Kazeem
Adekanye noted that the main agenda of many youths in Nigeria travelling abroad
is to seek greener pasture which lures them into series of problems.
He appealed to Nigerian youths to stay in the country and
utilise their skills, talents for the development of the nation, stressing that
over 70 million Nigerian youths out of over 150 million Nigerians are enough to
build the nation
Culled: Nigeriafilms
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