RE MY FATHER'S GENERATION FAILED MY GENERATION by Tony Elochukwu

Reading this article titled "My Father's Generation Failed My Generation" By Lucky Chambers Umezulike. I was moved with this young man's Charismatic method of writing, the way he bared the truth very open I can't help but believe in all he said about my father's generation. Indeed My father's Generation, those who were born between 1930s to 1970s really have a lot of question to answer about the failure of my generation. My father's generation were born when indeed thing have not fallen apart. When the country had people of high integrity, people with ambitious zeal to put the country in the right other. They (My father's generation) were fortunate to come into this world when corruption isn't the other of the day. Like my friend Lucky points out in his article my father's generation got education of a superlative quality. They were educated when Nigeria’s value system and set of morals had not gone to the dogs or thrown out of the window. Today the reverse is the case. I vividly remembered that my father once told me that in those days things were put in good other for the youths. There were free education with qualified teachers and lecturers. You dare not bribe any teacher to go through school. In my father's generation public affairs were managed by zealous individuals not power and material mongers. But all these valuable assets of then the young Nigeria were damaged and crushed by my father's generation. Do you thing I am covering my generation? Never! But tell me of a smoke without a fire then I will tell that the whole thing is just a night time tales. I strongly believe that the failure of my generation has its strong root from the my father's generation taught us. They made u believe that our different tribes, religious believe is more important to our corrective ideas. They teach us on daily basis that how to bribe our ways to archive whatever we needed. Today just take a look at out educational system my father's generation are the principal, the Vice provost, Senior lecturers that encourage my generation on examination malpractice. They persuade my generation to pay for their assignment and got the mark instead of doing research for the assignments in school. Oh my Father's generation really contributed heavily to the failure of my generation. My generation has some fault of their own too. We are mainly concerned about our material needs than our education and disciplinary value. My generation harbour the suspicion that my own generation may be worse in managing the affairs of Nigeria, I seriously think that my father’s generation caused it, which you will have cause to believe too as we further explore this topic. Already, my own generation has started showing traces of pre-failure: a highly money-conscious and materialistic generation; a generation where someone leaves the university today and wants to own cars, houses, and all the modern gadgets within a year; a generation of showing off, and with little or no patience to grow in a responsible career; a generation afflicted by the worst side of corruption; a generation with apathetic attitude to academic excellence, exposed to low quality education characteristic of the Nigerian education sector with graduates that cannot speak good English as its regrettable products; a generation that graduates from the universities by sorting-bribing lecturers; a generation that browses answers with telephones during exams; a generation that depends on question-paper leaks to be able to pass West African Senior School Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE), National Examination Council (NECO), Joint Admission and Matriculation Body (JAMB) exams etc; a generation of exam malpractices across all levels of education; a generation that wants to make quick money as soon as possible through any available means whether such means be by crook or by hook; a generation of a good percentage of school dropouts, all pursuing careers in the music industry, as a gateway to instant financial freedom and yet never sang anything meaningful; a generation of young men wearing dreadlocks, earrings, with funny guitars, sagged trousers and all manner of chains which they call blings hanging around their necks; a generation that is marked by eroded values, integrity, and morals with sex as the order of the day. A generation where the National Association of Nigerian Students’ leaders do not have any cause that they are pursuing, never criticize the government or demonstrate, except to follow politicians up and down for financial gains.( thanks to Lucky Umezulike) My father's generation are the ones that send their Children abroad for proper education, they are the ones who sat and watch our security system ( Army, police etc) got corrupted by devilish and selfish individuals. They are the ones who showed my generation how to bribe to get a job whereas they told us how they got jobs mainly on merit and not on sentiments. In facts I blame my own generation for allowing my father's generation to influence them forgetting we are the future leaders of the country. My father's generation are the ones who sowed the evil seed of corruption in my generation. They are the ones who allowed my generation to stay unemployed after graduation whereas they told us how they got their jobs immediately after their education. My father's generation really failed my generation. In the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, they were the military dictators that fuelled corruption, nepotism and tribalism. They inherited a young country and never made the best of it. The ones that were not within the circle of the military dictators were watching arms akimbo, while their very mates were messing up the country. They never bothered about National Unity. They fuelled tribalism, and practically made religious schism State’s policy. They championed ethnicity rather than to build a nation, and then taught us to hate each other based on our ethnicity and religion. They are the senators that write recommendation letters for my generation to get jobs in federal government establishments as nothing is by merit any longer – a deplorable development they encouraged. They are the very ones that give us moneys to pay to get jobs in federal government establishments. They are the ones that never really protested for anything in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s against the military dictators or showed sufficient resistance that would have prevented the military dictators from running the country the way they did. They are still the ones that tell us not to protest against the government. ( thanks to Lucky) It's time my generation stand up and put to end all of these habits of corruption, tribalism, religious sentiments and focus on the corrective progress of our generation.     

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