NIGERIAN YOUTHS NOT LAZY, BEN BRUCE FIRES BACK AT BUHARI OVER UNSAVOURY COMMENTS ON YOUTHS

Nigerian youths, hawking in the streets of major cities across Nigeria.

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has fired back at President Muhammadu Buhari over the statement he made about the Nigerian youths.

Buhari had, while speaking on Wednesday at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster, England, told his audience that Nigerian youths, though educated, were lazy and always wanted everything to be offered them on a silver platter.  

“Nigeria has a very young population, most of whom were uneducated but wanted everything offered them on a silver platter, just because the country is an oil-producing nation,” the President was quoted as saying, adding that “Nigerian youths like free things based on the notion that Nigeria is an oil-rich nation.”

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However, in swift reaction to this, Senator has come out in stout defence of the Nigerian youths, describing them instead as very hard working

“Whoever says Nigerian youths are lazy should just buy a mirror and he or she will see the real definition of laziness! I have over 1000 Nigerian youths in my employ and not one of them is lazy,” the Senator stated.

In his own reaction, Reno Omokri, ex President Goodluck Jonathan’s spokesperson wondered why the President would make such a statement when, according to him, there are numerous Nigerian youths hawking all day, even under hard weather condition.

“There are millions of Nigerian youths hawking from morning to night under hot African sun, yet their lazy President who hasn’t initiated, started and completed any project in three years called them, lazy people who want to ‘sit and do nothing, and get housing, healthcare’,” he said, quoting the President.

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