A newly discharged member of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has taunted most Nigerian graduates of lacking quality education and basic common sense.
Claudia Ayodele, who passed out from the scheme on Thursday, took to her Instagram handle in two separate posts to assert that the country faces the problem of quality education not the number of graduates.
In a separate but longer post, which she titled, ‘A brief recap’, Ayodele, howver, shared her frustrations, even as she highlighted some of the positive parts of her service year.
She started off by noting how she couldn’t wait to get out of her “horrible government uniform” and how she would not be showing off her NYSC certificate.
The ex-corps member posited “Honestly the last 11 months were not a joke. I don’t know how many times I wanted to literally quit NYSC but I kept reminding myself why I actually registered for the programme in the first place.”
Ayodele queried “Why? Because you just never know when Nigerians want to make your life miserable in the future. On the positive note, I learnt a lot about the way of life in this country
“Got to experience going to a state without an airport in its near vicinity. Got to experience what it’s like to be in the deepest jungle bush where even google maps imaging cannot capture the road.”
She bemoaned the prevalence of corruption and indiscipline in the society, noting “Got to experience how deeply ingrained corruption and indiscipline is in Nigerians from young to old. Got to experience how simple queueing is not possible… Over and over again.”
Ayodele ranted “Respect rarely exists. Humility rarely exists. Shame rarely exists. Self-Interest exists. Before anyone gets hurt by this finding, honestly there’s a big difference between poor and middle class not to talk of upper class.”
“They say the problem with Nigeria is it’s old leaders, I say Nigeria faces an even bigger problem when the young already show traits of the older generation clinging on to power,” she also fumed.
“For the first time I got to fully interact with Nigerians from all walks of life and it has been a truly humbling experience. I am grateful to those who pushed me to do NYSC because now I know up until a year ago, I lived in a bubble when it came to ‘knowing’ my country,” Ayodele was full of praises for the scheme.
