The first lady spoke in a recent interview with Arise News.
The wife of the president of Nigeria, Senator Remi Tinubu, has made fun of young Nigerians who have left their country in pursuit of better opportunities abroad for accepting jobs they wouldn’t do at home.
She lamented that Nigerians with their educational attainment fled the nation to work in low-paying occupations like cab driving, abandoning their dependents at home.
“Look at all those people who say they are going to Japan—they actually go there,” she remarked. Which tasks are you planning to perform? You know, you end yourself going to do the task that you refused to perform at home, where you had loved ones. They are taxi drivers despite having a lot of education, yet they won’t drive here.
Nigerians have been migrating abroad in large numbers, and many more are in the process of doing so, as a result of the country’s growing economic difficulties and increasing levels of insecurity. The nation’s never-ending quest for better opportunities has been dubbed “Japa Syndrome.”