‘Lazy Youths’ Allegation: NYCN Offers N1m For Evidence

The President, National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Malam Murtala Garba, has challenged critics to produce evidence where President Muhammadu Buhari portrayed the Nigerian youths as being lazy.

He therefore offered a gift of N1 million to anybody that would identify where the word lazy was hidden in the statement made by President Buhari.

In statement on Tuesday in Abuja, Garba blamed a section of the media and critics for descending on the President for allegedly describing Nigerian youths as lazy in a London round-table.

The NYCN President said his cell phone line was bombarded by youth groups across the country on the need to react on the alleged ‘lazy youths comment’ by Buhari.

The youth leader said after taking quality time to review the video several times to enable him react appropriately, he was shocked to discover that the lazy youths comment was just an imagination of mischief makers.

According to him, the word lazy never existed throughout President Buhari’s round-table discussion in London and challenged critics to show evidence where he mentioned the word lazy while commenting on Nigerian youths in London.

He insisted that Buhari did not use the word ‘lazy’ in his speech, adding that the President’s description of the Nigerian situation regarding its youths was apt and precise.

The NYCN leader also said many youths were already functioning as political thugs with the 2019 general elections approaching, lamenting that they are acting in a senseless manner, vandalising properties and disrupting political gatherings.

He said instead of some Nigerians running away from reality, it is important to appreciate the President for hitting “the nail on the head because some youths are lazy, but we don’t want to admit it.”

Garba maintained that Buhari is not the only leader who made similar assertion about the Nigerian youth and urged the youths to abandon the counter-productive race for emergency wealth, shun betting and concentrate on education and training.

The NYCN leader further challenged Nigerian youths to embrace the diversification programme of Buhari to generate wealth, adding; “It is unfortunate that some Nigerian youths prefer lips services like the youth will take us to the moon which adds nothing to their welfare.”

Similarly, he charged parents and guardians to inculcate core values of honesty, dignity and diligence in their off-springs in the overall good of the nation. – NAN