For some time now, I have pondered about the piece of write-up
to put down for this publication, aside our primary aim of coming to this great
citadel of learning. I do not see this as an opportunity to bring myself to
limelight or to display my vocabulary prowess, so my motive is not a victim of
prejudice. I see this as an opportunity to reach out not only to the environs
of the department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering (FUTO), but to
reach out to the students of all other departments in FUTO and in Nigeria, as I
don’t believe in limitation. I see this as a clarion call to all students,
literate youths, and illiterate youths who would come to know the content of
this article to rise to the responsibility of the saying our democracy.
We keep saying our government is facing challenges, we keep
saying our “economy is melting”, we keep staying in perpetual darkness while we
export electricity to some West Africa Countries that celebrate constant power
supply for decades, we keep going to school despite the fact that there are
thousands of unemployed graduates out there. The list is endless.
Someone once said “the bad people rule because the good
people are silent”. James Smut, an European Historian once said “Negro is the
most patient of all next to Donkeys” we must start preparing as the youths to
take our future into our hands, as the term “we are the future of our tomorrow”
is being jeopardized in our part of the world. Did I hear “it is impossible?”
Mohammed Ali said “Impossible is just a big word thrown
around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they have been
given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a
fact, it is an opinion, impossible is not a declaration, it is a dare,
impossible is potential, and impossible is temporary... Impossible is nothing.”
“We must learn to stand with him who is right, remain with
him while he is right and leave him when he deviates from what is right, as God
gives us the grace to discern right from wrong… Democracy is a government of
the people for the people and by the people.” Abraham Lincoln.
“We must learn to be so determined that our past mistakes,
missed opportunities and weakness cannot stop.” Eze Joshua
It may take us twice as long to take this “this future” but
it will come so long as we take up the opportunity once it arrives and never
let go, as “Tempus nefe et nefe”,
time that has flown away has flown away, and “Tempus fugit non regamus”, time lost cannot be regained. Nothing
great comes easy, just as “nothing is impossible to him who believes.
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