ARE WE SO MUCH LESS VALUABLE TODAY?

ARE WE SO MUCH LESS VALUABLE TODAY?
Our President is 73 years old, our Vice President is 59, at least ten of our Federal Ministers have clocked 60 already while I know of just 2 who are yet 50 years of age in the long list (though they are 49 already). Even for some time now, I have been thinking, why are these people not affected by the Nigerian Civil Service retirement age? If you ask me, in my opinion, I would say they also should be classified and regarded as other civil servants and should be retired just as other civil servants after 35 years of service or at the age of 60 years.
Every year, the population of the jobless youth across the nation keeps increasing and I get to wonder, are there no job opportunities anymore? The most recent experience is the 10,000 job openings in the Nigeria Police Force which already had more than 1,000,000 applicants to have registered; what a pitiable state. Majority of my friends who have finished their National Youth Service are still jobless after a year, while the few working are either employed as teachers in local schools or in substandard less reputable organizations except for very few who have translated their skills into their professions. You can imagine university graduates being paid N30,000 monthly as salary - God have mercy.
How then can there be openings for the ever increasing youths when the oldies are refusing to leave their offices even after clocking retirement age? What do we expect when those who are due for retirement are still applying to be contract staffs and are being retained in the name of 'experience'? What then is our hope as youths when even the Youths minister is over 50 years of age; when a governor in 2013, without any ignominious feeling could publicly voice out to the media: "we should find a way to retain those who are 60-65 years of age, up to 70 years unless they retire voluntarily". (I wonder the state of the youths in the state he governs). The Nigeria we learnt about from history of about 50 years ago was one governed by youths, one where you would hardly find a 50 year old in power, that is the Nigeria I long to see again. If people could believe in our dear President, Mohammadu Buhari to be a State Governor at the age of 34 and be the Head of State at 41 years, why would himself and many other influential figures not believe in capabilities of the youths of today? Are there no longer youths with vigour and wisdom like Joseph, David and Daniel who had an excellent spirit with proofs in governance? I so much believe there are more than enough, they are just not given the platform to manifest as it was in the past. ARE WE SO MUCH LESS VALUABLE TODAY?

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