There are millions of Nigerian youth today whose potentials have gone rogue because of the failure of successive government to create an excelling springboard off an economy that has marginalised them time and time again. The rhetoric around hushpuppi’s actions is exacerbated by a false dichotomy, it shouldn’t be a question of his stupidity or sagacity, after all, its little by little that a pig’s nose enters the yard. Whether in science and technology, sports and recreation, manufacturing or engineering, there are huge opportunities for a government who understand the basics of developmental state to harness its young population, it takes real skill and talent to pull off what he did. 
Unfortunately the lacklustre response from the men of the ballot papers leaves much to be desired. That failure by government has in part marred economic prosperity and made the youths the forgotten young boys and girls of our country, like a sheep lacking a shepherd, many make their marks taking off from a point of disadvantage because of the non existing catalytic synergy between them and the political elite. This political ineptitude has produced a “hushpuppi” and other cyber-criminals from Africa’s “city upon a hill”
The reason why Hushpuppi has calved a negative image on the global scene is closer to home than it seems. This trend of our youthful countrymen scamming some of the richest men and women on the planet at the scale and success they have is not beyond belief, it is a symptom of the political sickness, our leaders should face the court of public opinion for serious negligent and gross misconduct. Hushpuppi may be a lost soul, but sadly his story represents millions of wasted youths, more sadly, it represents the failure of the mediocrities parading themselves in political office.
