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What i meant describing Nigerian youth as lazy – Buhari

written by Samuel Etuk May 2, 2018

President Buhari has offered further explanation for his take down of Nigerian youth while speaking at a forum in London last month.

In a recent interview with the Voice of America, he was asked by the interviewer to explain his what he meant by his previous statement on Nigerian youth.

In response, Buhari said, “You know they say we are over 180 to 200 million people in Nigeria and 60 per cent are the youth below the age of 30. In the North, for instance, most have not attended school or they abandoned halfway.

If not because we had favourable rainfall in the past two seasons; most of them have no job, just idling away. People like them, even if they go to the South, for instance, what they will make will not be enough to even pay their rent not to talk of feeding, clothing and transport back home,”.

He added that the media might have caused the uproar generated by his initial comments and went on to say what his government had been grappling with.

He said, “That has not been explained enough and you know the media, especially the print, are simply doing whatever they like. We had two successful farming seasons, people went to farm and did very well, but no one is talking about that; only insults.

That is why the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, had to respond to the letter of insults released by Mr Obasanjo.

We spoke about it and I asked him not to respond but he refused and said he will just respond by stating the situation we met the country, where it is now and what was done in between and the monies we are getting,”.

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