The population bomb you were writing about is what will eventually expose our internal adequacies to the whole world. As a people we are not prepared. We only pay lip service to the concept of population and its management.
For a people who do not have a near accurate population data we are not in a position to plan not to talk of implementing policies that would take care of our inevitably booming population. Schools are inadequate to prepare the vast number of children who require good education as a passport to escaping naked and vicious poverty in the land. Where these schools are available, the curricular is not what is required in the age of biometric algorithm and an increasingly knowledge economy. Even if the excess labour is diverted to agriculture, modern agriculture is no more labour intensive. What then happens to these people who are half baked or not even baked at all. They become irrelevant to society. They are ready recruits into the swelling army of discontented and a sure ignition coil for the coming unplanned and rudderless revolution. May God save us. This is a great topic, but you did not publish the article you said you wrote 6years ago. You have added 419 to your malady. Last line. Your mad boy, Okon will soon meet his Waterloo. His mumu will surely end.
- Babatunde Jose, Lagos.
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