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Dear Omoyele Sowore,

As it stands, you are most likely the only hope ahead.
(Or who else do we need to try to see that the rest are birds of a feather in the same system?)
So maybe we should send reform ideas to you. Maybe we should gradually prepare for when this power eventually falls into the right hands.

I have an issue with how the NYSC program is currently run.
We invest 5 to 6 years, baking “intelligent” youths, only to send them to monitor elections, work as primary school teachers, or become teachers in schools with unteachable students.
It’s a waste of intelligence.
A waste of education.

Sometimes these NYSC Corps Members become side chicks to LG Chairmen or messengers to dumb Local Government officials.
It’s an anomaly.
NYSC should handle all the Local Government Chairmen positions across the states.
Yes, we should use NYSC well.

It makes no sense to have these graduates become nonentities for a full year after an active education program.
It’s not as if these LGA Chairmen are better.
We must deliberately set this compass. We must program educated, smart heads into governance.

We have some NYSC members who carried out great developmental projects in their place of state assignments.
Imagine what great heads will accomplish at that level as LG Chairmen.
Today, LG Chairmen are just reward positions for “thugs.”
Just another position to settle political structures.

Whereas that position is important.
I believe in education. I believe in the energy of the youth. I believe that we should not have governance resting in the hands of people that should be resting.
Or why should a man of 75, 80, or 90 be as concerned with the future he may not see?

When we have leaders that pay deaf ears to the plight of the people and national issues, I usually totally understand. I understand the disconnect. Why should an old man, bothered about present health and his transition to the afterlife, concern himself with the future of Nigeria?

NYSC can mean more than the current show of shame.
We have it all wrong.
These fresh heads should lead governance.

Your Better Nigeria Spotter,
Ediale

ForTheCulture

P.S. The smart heads are relegated to lesser assignments while the dull heads are promoted to lead — an anomaly.

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