No Job On Ground Poem by Okoemu Okoemu Okoemu

There is no job anywhere
in the country
No vacancy anywhere
Find your way after school
All the ministries are filled up
No empty table in any commission
The agencies and institutions
are over crowded
There is no work on ground
The queue of unemployed people
Is longer than rope and time.

Yet,

There are vacancies for your child
who is still in the womb
Yet, your child gets a job before graduation
There is a directorate office
waiting for your child still in primary school
Yet, ancestors are on desks
Refusing to be 60 or 70 years old
There is no work in the country.

Because it is not a senator's son
who applied and needed the job
Not an honourable's daughter
Who came for the interview
He has no complimentary card
from a party leader or his majesty.

He will be jobless
Because his father is not
In aso rock
Nor is her mother a woman leader
In the ruling party.

No work in the country
Learn skills
Get handiwork.
Which of the President's child
Is a baker or makeup artist?
Which of the governor's child
Is a tailor or shoemaker?
Is there any Senator's child
That is a barber or...?

Learn skills
Get handiwork
Wait not for white colar job
Alright,
Someone struggling for a square meal
Where will he get the money to start up?

We have heard
We will learn skills
We will learn handiwork
We will try our best.

There is no vacancy
Your child just get a job
He just dropped the pen
There is no work in the country
You are working
Where did you get yours
Where did the work go?

You have been there
For a life time
And still you are not over 50 old
And you haven't serve up to 35
Yet, my mother was 15
When you marked you 40th
Now my mother is 57
You are still too young.

-Okoemu Okoemu Okoemu