Senator Ibikunle Amosun, a former governor of Ogun State and senior member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has bemoaned the growing tendency of young Nigerians fleeing the country in search of better opportunities.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, many Nigerian young now view “Japa” as their last chance to leave their country’s instability and economic collapse.
Japa, a Yoruba word that translates to “leave” or “run away,” is currently used to characterize the widespread exodus of gifted young Nigerians who are leaving their country in pursuit of better opportunities overseas.
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Speaking to BBC Yoruba, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s APC rival Amosun referred to nations that provide Nigerians visas to support their “Japa” as wicked.
According to the former Governor, countries giving visas to Nigerian accountants, lawyers, and medical practitioners do not consider the effect on Nigeria.
He said, “I have heard about it, and the reports are scary. All our youths and young talents are traveling out of Nigeria, seeking greener pastures, and the prospective countries are deliberately giving them visas to leave the country without putting the origin country into consideration.
“What scares me most in all this is the proliferation of emigration. Foreigners will not fix our nation for us if all our citizens should leave the country. I am seeing the countries granting visas to our youths as wicked because they are not considering the origin nation from which their prospective labour force are coming from.
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“If you ask our people leaving the nation for greener pastures, they will tell you that they are not planning to return to Nigeria.”
Amosun, however, stated that those ‘japaing’ from the country could not be blamed as Nigeria is experiencing poor economy, insecurity, and bad governance.
He said, “If you look closely at the situation, you would see that all our lawyers, accountants, and most especially medical practitioners make up the largest chunk of the people leaving the country. We cannot blame them, however; insecurity is one of the major problems pushing our people out of the country.
“You will agree with me that our people are not lazy and are always willing and ready to work diligently. Most of the migrants are forced to leave the country as a result of bad governance, an unstable economy, insecurity, and other challenges.
“I am sure Nigeria will be great again, but the reports of migration recently have been disheartening for me.”
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