My opinion on the FUTA 1st class graduate fraud story.

FUTA 1st class graduate arrested for FRAUD. You must have seen this headline. I have too, and I took peculiar interest in the story. There were about 5 of them who implemented the whole grift. 3 out them used to sit in the same lecture hall alongside their other levelmates which includes me. Lekan is brilliant. Mehn! The guy sabi. I had always imagined him working with the oil and gas big players. Of course he graduated, with a 1st class. The rest of us always did with whatever result we could accumulate. A couple of years on, this incredible brain is on the verge of rotting into oblivion. This is not what he bargained for. No job, no source of livelihood. He has to survive. What choice do you leave him? I am not in any way subordinating his misdeeds. But I never knew our nation could go this bad and wrong. One of the best graduating student in my faculty has no job, scholarship or social support. I can only imagine what is happening to majority of my other colleagues. He is guilty of fraud. But we owe him an apology. We told him to go to school and succeed. He did that exceptionally well. Now the part of the agreement that is ours to fulfil. We failed him.... not only him, but also the world. Imagine the genius he would have become in a more sane society. Now we lost him... same way we lost Shekau- the best project management and logistics brain this nation has ever produced. (try abducting one person successfully for 100days to see what I am saying). We should be grateful he did not establish his own franchise of terrorist clan. A nation that is not willing to invest in Education and create the best environment for maximum talent retention and reward for excellence should prepare to build prisons. This is Nigeria. This is what we have become! I rest my case. Dimeji Mudele

Before You Cast Out Demons

Before you start casting out DEMONS, please take NOTE: Demons don't make choices, people do! People make choices, good or bad. Whichever way, it is still their choice. The choices people make go ahead to make them and create their future. We just should learn to stop blaming demons for the results of our own wrong choices. RESPONSIBILITY is a critical variable in growth. We must know this: WHEREVER we are NOW, we made an appointment with life via a string of choices to arrive JUST here. And hey! HERE we are! Dimeji Mudele @cutemude