MY CANDID ADVICE TO THE ASTUTE YOUTHS OF ZAMFARA STATE AND BEYOND ON THE NEGATIVE EFFECT OF OUR ROUGH HANDLING OF SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITIES ON POLITICAL BASIS
By: Abduljabbar A. Maradun
In the name of Allah, the most beneficient the most merciful. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon his noble messenger Prophet Muhammad (SAW).
I'm aware of the undeniable fact that many of the readers of this write-up would be astounded upon seeing the heading without going through the innards as to what could be the basis on which this article is penned down. Hence, I hereby request for their precious time to give this piece a cursory read in spite of their tight schedules.
One could easily notice how a large number of our youths are frequently becoming absorbed in political activities on social media platforms particulary Facebook and WhatsApp and how it is regularly turning into a competitive train among the youths from all the strong political parties known within the axis of Zamfara which has undoubtedly made them adverseries of one another as a result of their diverse opinions which everyone of them is entitled to and believes is the right path to be followed despite myriads of lapses that each of the political camps might have.
The extent to which show of derogatory attitude by these teeming youths is on the rise is extremely disheartening considering the harmful effects it could cause to them in the future which may eventually amount to 'twist of fate' for them.
Meanwhile, the long awaited 'brighter future' they have been dreaming of since childhood stage could be at the risk of being ruined as a result of wasting their time, exuberance and every other valuable thing in their possession that may be labelled as a tool of actualizing their dream in the future by disrespecting elders who are also our parents and mobilizing the candidature of someone whose concern is not channelled towards aiding them in the actualization of their dream after all the series of hardships and threats you may encounter along the line.
At this point, I want to make myself clear to you for the utmost fear of being misinterpreted or misjudged on the basis of writing this article. I'm not trying to label the idea of partaking in political activities on social media whatsoever by my fellow youths as a negative idea. No! It is just that I want to advise us to take precautionary measures on the poor handling of the aforesaid activities. "Prevention is better than cure" a popular adage says.
To be frank, political activities on social media are being mishandled to a greater extent which if precautionary measures are not taken, may throw its defaulters into a very dangerous pool of regret in the near future.
We are all aware of the path we place ourselves on, if we know we have veered up towards a wrong direction then we must quickly make a U-turn and advance towards the right direction in order to arrive at a violent-free and brighter destination.
I have been keenly noticing the negative basis on which we planned our blueprint of activities and if we fail to realize the danger it entails, we are in deep mess and I pity us.
It may interest you to know the much talked negative basis that is why I decided to list them below for your perusal.
1. The display of derogatory attitude by some of the youths in this 'business' (as they call it) is on the rise intermittently. Whereas, you will see a teen of less than 20 years posing himself in the awful act of dragging one's name through the mud.
It would undoubtedly break your heart beholding a teen turned mudslinger on social media insulting a highly respected politician who is older than even his father, saying all sorts of negative things against him in a bid to blacken his reputation and instead of those seen as matured people sharing same opinion with him politically to caution him they will end up giving him 'Thumbs up' and lauding his negative effort. You are deceiving him and one day he will turn out to be in your opposition side, he would'nt hesitate to give you similar treatment which you lauded him of.
It irritates me whenever I see our youths insulting statesmen who might be age mates to their parents or older than them.
2. We are all aware that Maradun LGA and Zamfara as a whole are left behind interms of Socio-economic development, educational standard and many other areas but because of the little means we earn from top officials of the goverment we refrain from voicing our needs from the government let alone to constructively criticize the government to return back to its right track.
For instance, this year's SSCE results were released nationwide few months ago but to my dismay the results of my state are withold over non payment of funds by the state government but we have remain tongue-tied as if we are not aware. Our siblings are stranded at home, the have utmost interest to further their studies but results are nowhere.
If only we could pressurize the state government and make the governor realize the danger of not releasing the said results through all the nooks and crannies of social media, notwithstanding our political differences. I'm very sure the state government must succumb to our collective demands even for the fear of the governor's image to be tarnished.
Moreover, those plying Danbaza-Maradun road are well aware of the dangerous and dilapidated condition of the road but the state government is acting like it's not aware of it. But despite all these we cannot tell the governor the truth about what we have in mind because of the fear of losing our gains or perhaps the utmost fear of incaceration.
3. It is obvious that in the mind of every youth there must be a dream for a brighter future but unfortunately we ourselves created an obstacle that could prevent us from actualizing the much-talked dream. It is nothing other than being absorbed in political activities on social media campaigning for those whose dreams are already actualized but they could not help you in one way or the other to achieve your own dreams.
Some of us are ND holders, NCE holders while some are still in the system aforementioned or even degree programmes but we are here wasting our precious time over someone who even his SSCE certificate is doubted upon. The time you may waste could be used to either look for job with your qualification or admission to further your studies.
Haba 'yan uwana, wake up to wakefulness mana.
This is not what our parents did in their juvenile age.
Let's be wise and be the masters of our fate as well as captains of our souls.
What most of them have in mind is that we are together with them to get money, and to some certain extent true, we sold our mandate and integrity, even if they wins they have every right to sideline us because we worked for them and get paid, nothing else we could do to convince them whatsoever.
4. The most worst part of it is that most of our youths in this act do not wait to know a person personally, his ethos, his contribution to the society, what captivated his attention to be in the race as well as his mission and vision; their minds get easily captured by the fancy and expensive dress he wears as well as his influence (wealth status). They will blindly go ahead to mobilize his candidature making lies to bag support for him.
In this case, they do not consider hailing from different towns or even states, all they see is what they will gain.
To this end, I'm please appealing to all my fellow youths to shun these negative and disdainful ethos to avoid the regretion that may follow afterwards.
Let's wake up to realities and support only those with clear vision to bring unprecedented development and not clowns.
Let's avoid insulting or taking one another as adverseries and as well eliminate the awful act of insulting our parents and elderly persons.
Let's do things in limits, do not let this dirty game to ruin your future.
Your future is your life, once ruined it could never be fixed nor return to normalcy.
I wish you good health and prosperity.
I leave you in peace!
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