Leadership failure caused slavery in Libya – Olanipekun

By Rotimi Ojomoyela

Ado-Ekiti

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Wole Olanipekun, has identified leadership failure and wanton neglect of youths by successive governments as being responsible for the sale of some Nigerian migrants to slavery in Libya and other countries.
Olanipekun said the slavery in Libya and other countries would “continue unabated if the government fails to identify and empathise with the unemployed youths.”
He stated this in Ikere Ekiti at the weekend when the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, commissioned the newly built Hall of Fame at the Palace of Ogoga, Oba Adejimi Adu Alagbado.
The museum, according to Ooni and Ogoga, will protect the historical heritage of the town and serve as a veritable ground for learning and research.
Speaking on government’s failure to create conducive atmosphere for employment generation investments in the country in recent times, he said: “When I was in the University of Lagos in the 70s, I had over six offers as a fresh graduate who had not attended the law school. But today, nobody sympathised or empathised with the youths, they were abandoned in their own fates.
“After graduation, no unemployment, nobody attends to them and they thought they have to take the tortuous, winding and dangerous routes to where the greener pasture is.
“And most of us who are successful are not helping matters, we are wicked. We don’t tell the government the truth . What is in Libya that
our youths are going for? This is a shame on all of us.
“Libya has just been rescued from a major crisis; they have no human rights protection mechanism, no freedom, because they have always been in military dictatorship. But let me say this, if Nigeria fails to take care of its youths by creating tomorrow for them, we are inadvertently planting a revolution and threat for the future.”

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