I recently lost my bike to some jobless youths in the street. I was rushing to an appointment, so I took my bike to the metro and parked it outside. I locked the back wheel, but I didn’t tie it to the iron anchor at the parking lot.
I thought I wasn’t going to stay long, and nobody would have the effrontery
to carry a locked bike in an open space. So, I rushed into the metro to catch the train.
When I came back, my bike had been stolen. I was shocked. I
wondered who could have done this in a public space. People are not even
fearful anymore. They don’t care about the law or the shame they will get if they are caught. I’ve heard a lot about young immigrants who are jobless
in the country, going around stealing people’s things.
These ones are hungry and angry. They are hungry for life, and they are also
angry about their situation. Many of them are asylum seekers. They have left
their embattled countries with their families and relatives, looking for a place to
survive. They’ve been in the country for many years without having
anything tangible to do.
They are uneducated and crass, agile and aggressive. You see them with red
eyes and frowning faces. They look hopeless and helpless. Many are asked to go
back to their countries, but they are still hanging around, hoping for
something to change. Those who are still in the asylum process have had their
cases long forgotten or abandoned. It just seems life
will not be better for them.
The only thing they can do now is to become a nuisance in the society. They go
around day and night stealing people’s things. They are reckless and mindless.
Looking at this situation, you’ll realize that having hungry and angry
youths in the environment doesn’t keep any society safe. These same young
people engage in a lot of inimical activities. They engage in drug trafficking,
rape, stealing, maiming, vandalism, terrorism, armed robbery, kidnapping, and
so on.
How do we make a nation better if the people are not better? How do we
change the situation if we don’t change our mindset about things? The issue is - there are many young people who are hungry and angry in the country, and as
long as that’s the case, things will always get worse. There will always be
more criminals on our streets. Immigrants will always feel secluded and
neglected, and that will make them more hungry and angry.
For many of them, the support they are getting from the government is not
enough. They have so much pressure from home to send money. They don’t have
access to jobs because of their illiteracy and lack of documents. The
situation keeps getting worse, and more illegal immigrants keep trooping in.
At some point, criminality will be the order of the day if nothing is done about it. We can’t keep having a bunch of jobless and hopeless youths and expect a society to be peaceful. There can’t be a huge number of hungry and angry youths, and we expect the nation to progress.
Even though we are seeing some progress, it is only a matter of time before the crime rates overwhelm
the value rates, and the entire nation is subjected to anarchy, where the young
people who are supposed to contribute to nation-building will be busy with
drugs and all manner of addictions and crimes.
It’s high time we took the bull by the horns and saw how we can transform
the lives of our youths—those immigrants who are hungry and angry, and don’t
have anything to do—how we can help them and offer them hope and the
assistance they need to rise again and stand on their feet.
Many of them (if not all of them) need education. They need encouragement.
They need support. They need orientation and inculcation of moral values. No
magic will happen if we don’t act. And it is our contributions in the lives of
these ones that will carry on to the next generation.
S.O. PIENS, MD
June 2024
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