The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye
Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has said with the rising rate of youth unemployment,
Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder.
The Ooni, who spoke with newsmen
in his palace, said: “We are sitting on a keg of gunpowder, because Nigerian
youths are getting wilder and wilder by the day. 70 percent of our people are
youths and we are not even talking about birth control.
“Every weekend, you will be
getting invitations to weddings and after wedding, children will come. Nobody
is talking about these things. So it is about time we used our culture,
heritage and tradition to mould and mentor the up-coming ones.”
Throwing his weight behind the
clamour for the country’s restructuring, Oba Ogunwusi said it had its own
advantages.
His words: “I am not a
politician, so can only advise. It is a very political question. But what is
ideal for us is for every region to focus on their comparative advantage.
Competition is the best. You thrive in a healthy competition.
“If one region does better than
the others, the other regions can come and borrow from that region. It is still
Nigeria first. Nobody is saying it shouldn’t be Nigeria.
“Let us create competitions in
the regions. It worked before. It will work again.”
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