The supervisor for local government administration in the State of Osun, Barrister Adejare Adebisi has advised the youths across the country and those returning from South Africa to see their certificates as means to an end and to an end itself.
Adebisi, who gave the advice during a live programme on OSBC radio monitored by Insight Media Correspondent in Osogbo, added that young Nigerians should develop their innate talents and skills and be ready to take advantage of opportunities presented by community and government.
He said the a typical Nigerian youths is blessed with a talent or skill that have potential to make an eminent person in life. “Youths should see their certificates as means to an end and not ends on it own. The South Africa returnees should look inward and I believe the government have enough programme to accommodate them and make them comfortable. Only that they must be ready to embrace challenges and leverage on opportunities presented by communities and government.”
He described the xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in south Africa as an act borne out of pure hatred for the foreigners by the citizens of South Africa. He said the country is repaying kind gestures of other African countries to free it from apartheid with evils.
“The issue of xenophobia in reference to the happenings in South Africa is not only limited to attacking blacks, it’s just a hatred of foreigners developed by the South Africans who are feeling threatened by the nationals of other countries.”
Adebisi added that there’s no country in the world that can live in isolation just as he advised the government of South Africa to take cue from developed countries around the world whose economy and socio-political lives have been greatly impacted by the foreigners.
” There is no country in the world that can develop without pockets of foreigners among them. Go to US, UK, Germany and other developed countries of the world, foreigners are contributing immensely to develop their economies and even shaping their political lives. I think the fear of South Africans is borne out of hatred and probably, laziness.”
Adebisi also advised the elderly people in the society to see youth reorientation and mentoring as their responsibility in order to have a better tomorrow.
“We the older ones should conduct ourselves in a way that younger ones will want to emulate. The onus lies on all of us who are forty years and above to take roles of reorientating the younger generation and ensure they see us as their role models, ” he advised.
