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Why Do So Many Youths Want To Do Fraud?

So, this electrician came to my house the other time to fix some basic stuff. 

He did a good job, but I was taken aback this morning to receive a message from him stating that he is available to learn work from me, and in case I have an online update to share with him, he will be grateful because he is tired of this work. 

Online update? 

Confused, I had to call him in case I did not get the memo about the new online update. 

And then he said, 'Senior man! I know you Dey street. Please connect your brother.' 

I was further confused because I don’t understand what he means by street. 

Street! From where to where? 

Only for him to bluntly say, 'I know that's what you do. You are a yahoo boy. Please, your brother wants to learn work too.' 

I don’t know whether to get upset or to laugh because the whole thing sounded very funny to me. 

I also did not understand what he saw in me that gave him the impression that I’m a yahoo boy, but regardless, I spent the next 30 minutes trying to educate him that life is not binary, and you don’t necessarily need to be a yahoo boy before you live a comfortable life as a young person living in Nigeria. 

Look around you, there are so many life-changing opportunities around you that you can leverage to change your life, low-hanging fruit that can change the final outcome of your life. 

You are already doing well as an electrician; you just need to upskill to learn how to fix inverters and solar, you will triple your income and make more money for yourself. 

From there, you can travel to China to see how to import solar and inverters from China because it is highly in demand at the moment and a lucrative business. 

Start small with the importation of solar and inverter, then scale up. Your life won’t be the same again, I promise you. 

Update Dey my brother! You don’t necessarily need to steal from another person for you to live a comfortable life as a young person in Nigeria. 

I don’t know whether he was convinced by my sermon, but whatever it is, we have a job to do, my people. 

We can’t allow a generation grow and then waste their youth and potential with the mindset that yahoo yahoo is the only route to escape poverty in Nigeria. 

That is not true. 

Ezra and Shola are 40 years old; they were 30 years old when they founded Paystack. 

Flutterwave's founder, Gbenga, is 40 years old too. 

The same with Tosin, Moniepoint CEO; they are all 40 and they escaped poverty by going to school, learning a skill, and becoming valuable. 

That is the only way I understand. 

Learn a trade, a skill, and go to school. 

Any other thing is false and not something a young person should aspire to. 

I’m glad I spoke to this guy this morning. I hope he listens to me, but we need to convert more people with a twisted mindset like him before we lose a whole generation.

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