The Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and social media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Lere Olayinka, has criticised the perception of some members of Generation Z about Nigeria\u2019s economic situation, arguing that the country has improved compared with previous years.\n<\/p>\n
Olayinka, who spoke during an interview uploaded by the African Independent Television on Tuesday, said many young Nigerians only began to appreciate the country\u2019s economic realities when they became adults and had to provide for themselves.\n<\/p>\n
He argued that while their parents catered for their needs as children, they now had to shoulder the responsibility of meeting their own needs.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why people, a lot of the Gen Z generation now, because of what they have seen, because when they were growing up, and this is very funny, when they were growing up they didn\u2019t know how Nigeria was. Their parents were providing for them. Now they have seen, they have to provide for themselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The minister\u2019s aide also compared the country\u2019s current technological environment with the challenges journalists faced in the past, arguing that technological advancement had made several activities easier and created new employment opportunities.<\/p>\n
Recalling his experience in journalism, Olayinka said he used to travel by road from Bauchi to Jos to uplink reports, while video recordings had to be transported in VHS cassettes to television stations. <\/p>\n
He said technological advancement had changed the process, allowing people to create content and earn money through social media platforms without leaving their homes.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, technology has even provided jobs for a lot of people. Things that were not available to us, growing up,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Olayinka urged Nigerians to move away from what he described as a persistent narrative of hunger, arguing that people were still building houses despite the economic challenges.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cSo let us not keep this mindset of telling people there\u2019s hunger, there\u2019s hunger, there\u2019s hunger, there\u2019s hunger. People are building houses now, today, as we are talking,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
He also noted that homelessness existed in developed countries, adding that the government\u2019s responsibility was to create an enabling environment for citizens.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing the government can do is to provide enabling environment,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n
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