President Buhari Has Given Further Explanation As Describing Nigerian youth As Lazy.

President Buhari has given further explanation for his take down of Nigerian youth while speaking at a forum in London last month.
The president described Nigerian youth as lazy elements of the society who sit back, do nothing and expect the riches of oil wealth to touch them.
“More than 60% of the population is below 30, a lot of them haven’t been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria is an oil producing country, therefore, they should sit and do nothing, and get housing, healthcare, education free,” Mr Buhari was quoted as saying by The Cable during an April 19 panel appearance with world leaders at the Commonwealth Business Forum in London.
His comment provoked the whole nation and a flurry of protests sprang up on social media under soo many campaign tags, including ‘LazyNigerianYouth’.
The presidency later explained that Mr Buhari meant ‘a lot of’ and not all Nigerian youth.
In a recent interview with the Voice of America , which is part of his trip to the United States, the president gave what he believed was a clarification of his earlier comments.
He was asked by the interviewer to explain his what he meant by his previous statement on Nigerian youth.
In response, Mr Buhari said, “You know they say we are over 180 to 200 million people in Nigeria and 60% are the youth below the age of 30.
“In the North, for instance, most have not been in school before or they abandoned halfway. If not because we had favourable rainfall in the past two seasons; most of them have no job, just idling and jobless away.
“People like them, even if they go to the South, for instance, the money they will make will not be enough to even pay their rent not to talk of feeding, clothing and transport back home,” Buhari said.

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