I find it interesting that Sh. Gumi says nomadic youth are expressing grievances about not receiving a functional education & not being placed into schools. If we asked almajiri children also about what they desire for their lives, I am sure they too may wish to be included...
We are reaping the dividends of successive failures to engage our youth, give them a sense of belonging and provide them with opportunities for life success. We stereotype and generalise them, we accuse them of criminal intents for protesting against brutality...
...We make everything out to be about politics when most youth just want to thrive, be free and be happy. We fail to acknowledge the intergenerational trauma of feeling excluded or collectively punished for the political actions of a few...
...We underestimate the mental health challenges so many youth are enduring without relief. We talk till kingdom come in our places of worship about love but how much love have we shown to youth who want to have their ethnicity acknowledged but don’t want to be judged by it? ...
...How much love have we shown youth who come up with solutions for Nigeria’s problems and use their energy and creativity for good but are dismissed by our corrupt leaders in favour of their own appointees and allies to help in looting the treasury? ...
...Insanity is when we keep doing the same things expecting a different result. Something needs to shift or we are sitting on another time bomb with the number of out-of-school children and other youth excluded from receiving any of the so-called dividends of democracy.

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