Utomi at Confab: ‘Government has treated youths like idiots’

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Political economist, Prof Pat Utomi, says successive governments in Nigeria have treated young people like idiots.

“Governments have been not trustworthy in Nigeria, let’s be very frank,” Utomi said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday.

“It has treated young people like they are idiots, repeatedly, and this is sad because most governments in Nigeria were first run by young people.

“If you think about military rule, they were in their 20s and 30s, most of them, but something in the nature of the command hierarchy of the military, compounded by oil coming in, led to a beginning crystallisation of a new class system in Nigeria.”