₦airaland Forum

barcanista:
God bless you for speaking up!!!

believing in supernatural causes of evil is unnecessary, men alone are quite capable of every wickedness... (Joseph conrad)

Mynd44:
I am sorry bro but the truth is that Senator Obanikoro just had you people there he was thinking he would win the PDP Lagos primary and so he could use you to work for him during the election but that did not work out fine so there is no more use for you and countless other people.

I am sorry for your pains

when I got this same information last tuesday, I felt demoralized. So we had been pawns to someone's selfish political ambition. What a shame!

barcanista:
My brother OP, I understand your pains. You are one of the victims of the fraudulent government. A childhood friend on tellin me the SURE-P FTF stuff, how he has been "recruited", I told him that it was all scam. He left the "job" after spending 35k for kits and got a teaching job. It hurt me to see Nigerians being defrauded by the con artists-in-power. What we need from you Sir is to warn your circle so as to change the fraudulent government. Thank God you weren't among the unfortunate victims of immigration recruitment. You have a huge potentials and you are one of the incoming leaders of our generation. By the grace of God we shall bring down this fraudsters-in-power and make them pay for their sins. Stay cool... God will open your way!!

that's mightily kind of you bro!

But if we don't advocate for change now, then when?

Let me start with this famous quote

“In order to move others deeply, we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibilities” (joseph Conrad)

They just don’t care about us!
First of all, I don’t intend to antagonize anybody/government, all I am advocating for is a voice for us youths.
With that aside, let me give you a preamble of my journey into Federal task force Nigeria.
I am a Nigerian in every sense of it, I grew up in an ‘urban jungle’ (lagos, ojodu berber), paid money to rent bicycles, rolled tyres, etc. I went to secondary school, struggled to pass waec and jamb(for 3 years, 1998-2000), got to higher institution, endured strike actions, suffered endless tribulations in the university (times when we had to fetch water from a far distance, no light, mosquito bites, overcrowded classrooms, payment of hand outs etc).


I eventually graduated in 2006, served my fatherland (in Akwa-ibom,nsit ntai) started the job hunting immediately after service to no avail, I felt I needed to better my chances by furthering my studies, I went to the UK in 2008 and acquired my masters degree in business administration, I got my work permit (2yrs), I decided to stay back a bit to ‘test the waters’ in order to ascertain if UK would be better for me, it wasn’t, I ended up being a ‘health care assistant’, got fed up, packed my bags, and came back to Nigeria, come what may, its my fatherland (so I stupidly thought).


Ever since I got back to Nigeria (in 2010), I had been looking for a job still to no avail, I was either underemployed (35k), or I was overused. I was part of the candidates that wrote the ‘deadly’ immigration exams, i was only begging God for miracle, going for night vigils and prayer session became a ritual, I decided to go for my Phd, I was accepted (in Unilag) but unfortunately, ran out of funds, then the much awaited miracle came along in the form of Federal task Force. Recruitment was at toll gate, berger. Finally, I will have something doing…
I had to believe that the government had become sensitive to our plight, I mean, with this federal task force job, I would be able to serve my fatherland once again. I paid 25,000 (part of the money that is supposed to be used to fund my Doctorate program) for the recruitment with the belief that we were going to kick off soon and I would be able to raise money for my Phd later. That was April 2014. I went for training under the hot sun for 3 months, eventually, I had to stay home for the fear of depleting the meager sum I was getting from my old man’s pension (at my age I still collect money from my parents, am 34).


We got information that FTF (Abrev. For federal task force) would kick off soon, people were deployed to the roads, we were told we would be paid money for mobilization, that Jonathan was coming to ‘launch ‘ us officially at TBS, that was all a sham…

I eventually lost interest in the federal task force job, there was a particular day I was going home, I was in a traffic very close to the training ground at toll gate, I saw a lady (recruit)was being shouted upon (by the group commandant) to bang her leg on the floor (as part of the drill), I saw her desperate effort to impress the officer, she pounded her leg on the floor in a desperate bid to have a career, completely oblivious of the fact that she is a victim of a hoax, from the country which we are made to believe we can die for. Bob marley’s ‘emancipate yourself from mental slavery’ voice continued ringing in my ears…


Men of the FTF were deployed on the roads, and suffered abuses, attacks, curses, etc, and you know the worst part? They were not even paid a dime since its inception. Many continued to be hopeful until much recently…
We were told to come pick up a form at the toll gate,

all of a sudden, things stopped just as it had started, we were given a list of things you could make locally, (e.g. paints, soap, fufu, etc) and to choose one of the items on the list, and you would be trained for 2 weeks, thereafter (after the election) a certain amount would be paid to you to start up your own local business, and by the way, you are all not officers (or whatever you called yourselves) any more, you can go home now, that’s all.

My knees trembled under my feet…



I wept.



Where did we go wrong? How?

It’s a thing to be unemployed and searching, its another thing to be insulted on it, in the FTF, we have people with Phds, masters, and Bscs and we could all be treated, like that?
And yes, we were told we had to vote for jonathan/jimi agbaje if we ever want to stand a chance of getting the ‘certain ‘amount. During my personal investigation, I discovered that we were more than 100,000 that had been recruited, what a country!


What am I advocating for? I want my voice to be heard, this is time we youths must put aside our differences, Yoruba, hausa, igbo,igala, ibira, etc, we need to make our self heard till they care about us…
I am not against any party neither am I supporting any also, all I am saying is that; if we continue to keep silent, nothing is g oing to get better, even if government administration changes…
Be it APC or PDP that comes in come my 29, I really don’t care, I just want the best for me and my next generation, surely that cant be too much to ask our government for?



I advocate for a voice, to be heard, to have a better life for our next generation, so I am starting this hash tag for Nigerian youth.

#I WANT TO BE HEARD

We should ride on this train till it will get to the to people who might really care about us, according a cartoon, (Dr zeus)
“Unless somebody cares an awful lot, nothing is going to get better, no it won’t”


I hereby call on all the federal task force recruits, and all the youths in Nigeria and diaspora, to unite in one struggle, if they see our numbers, they will be forced to do something great for us (not only FTF but all the youths)
Just sign by dropping the hash tag in your comment box
CC seun, barcanista, lalasticlala,obinoscopy, Mizmycoli, etc you all know what to do!

A word for seun and the NL MOD’s
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”(martin luther ling jnr)

#I WANT TO BE HEARD