Effect of unemployment

The stampede and eventual loss of lives, and injury to scores of candidates, at the immigration service recruitment, are manifestations of the rate of unemployment in the country. It became more annoying when I realised that most of the people on the queue would not be employed because they were not connected to big men.

The beneficiaries of the scheme were at home, sleeping in  air- conditioned apartments. By the way, it’s not as if most of these applicants wished to be  immigration officers. They were forced by unemployment and underemployment-because most of them are not really unemployed, but were seeking greener pastures.

The blood of sadism is flowing in our leaders’ veins. We heard news of youth empowerment, job creation, poverty alleviation-some even promised eradication, almost on a daily basis. I wonder those who benefit from them. My father told me how college of education graduates were hot cakes in the 60s and 70s. Then, you were a king with B.Sc. Now, the reverse is the case.

Things have fallen apart, and the centre cannot hold.