WHAT ARE YOU DOING AFTER FORM FOUR?

Completing 8-4 of the 8-4-4 system of education is vital and very important though not adequately a fundamental aspect in the pursue of one's goals. Statistics prove 75% of the youths in Tana River have completed the exhaustive and tiresome course. But the question is,  are we eating the fruits of the investments we did? Or we are equivalent to our grandy that did not step in a classroom? Have we achieved our goals greatly expected?  Or do we discourage young potential learners who do not see the importance of education from our way of living?

Let us be sincere, what have you done that is educationally insinuated since your graduation from High school?  What do u see in you that is positive achieved from the course? Has the course brought any advantage or has it caused more misery to you?
 Well, it should have helped us great only most of us don't realize it or aren't striving to achieve it. Take a look at the photo below for instance....

  Some of these people are graduates from secondary schools but they couldn't see a better thing to do than taking care of somebody's motorbike periodically shifting from one rude owner to a more harsh motorbike possessor. When I move to the east I see energetic gentlemen and young ladies with great future changing sex partners in a days' interval I see young girls being mothers and some wives of "husbands". I stride to the west and witness High school graduates flooding police recruitment grounds like its the only job in earth these are the people who spend each single penny on khat(miraa) and other drugs. At the North, graduates sitting idle on idle-based coners termed "maskani" discussing nothing but  Arsenal's superiority to Chelsea or Amina 's killing beauty plus fantasizing winning the weekends Mega-jackpots. To the south are graduates aspiring-to-be winners by betting with a borrowed fifty Bob.  Leave alone those who travel to "abroad" looking for petty "skill-less" jobs at Garissa AKA Arab ndogo, Lamu and Malindi, those mobilised by hungry politicians to cause havoc forgeting they are graduates and those who floods ngoma and disco vumbi venues. Are we high school graduates really?  Is this how we should live after years of torture and sacrifice? The answer is a big NO! I
it's NO.

Honestly,  we are sitting on our potentials and abilities.There is this adage that says "nothing good comes on a silver platt
er". It's our duty to know our obligations and roles and work towards achieving them and inturn realize our goals. Let us not expect favours from nothing. The 8-4 should make a difference between us and the illiterate or those not at our level of education. There are so many things we can do to make a difference it all depends on your zeal and vehemence to making a difference. We can go for further studies for instance, start a business from our entreprenueral skills, chipping into small but good paying jobs like working for NGO's IEBC BOG teachers etc, blogging, start a youth group, you can even start a security company out from nothing and many others. I will cover this on my next article -How Tanarian youth can improve Tana's economy however. Let us not depend on other creatures or humanbeings for our well-being but as one fundamental factor in helping us realize our goals. Dependency on humanbeings for personal well-being will close our thinking ability stagnating our individual achievements and oftenly leading to misery at termination of the dependency.

Dear brothers and sisters. There is no shortcut here but your efforts. No Hiroshima Nagasaki excuses but the readiness to face the bitter truth. How many times did Abraham Lincoln fail before being US president anyway?... I remember when I received my letter to join the university for a bachelor of science in economics and statistics I had no single penny same to my parent's I searched for assistance all over to no avail, that's when I realized Iam the assistance. I raised funds on my own procedures some of which I have stated above and now see I thank God am year 2.2 and completed my CPA section 4 that is out from nothing. You don't have to be rich to study neither to start businesses or companies but efforts and determination are paramount. It all starts with you...

Let us change, let us behave like graduates, let peace prevail and let Tana River County prosper~Abubakar Godhana.
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