YSSB Foreign Scholarship Selection and Screening Committee

The news of the appointment of the Yobe State Foreign Scholarship Selection and Screening Committee was received by the public with mixed reactions.
On the one hand, some were jubilating because youth are fully engaged in the whole process as a testimony to a campaign promise kept by HE Hon. Mai Mala Buni of running a government of the youth. Believing that this youth will bring new ideas on board.
While on the other hand, others were skeptical and worried, which is to the least legitimate, about the credibility of the process as to whether the committee will be as transparent as possible, making merit the leading criteria in its selection exercise.
To be candid, the opinions of the two disparate camps are both valid.
Going by the antecedents of similar exercises conducted in the past full of flaws, where mediocrity called the shot instead of meritocracy, hence, the former's optimism that this time around it won't be business as usual since the baton is passed to the youth, while the latter's pessimism rooted in the belief that the youth would do worse.
Anyway, we can't tell who's right until after the completion of the exercise. Only time tells.
I, therefore, want to implore the committee to prove the latter wrong.
It's pertinent that the committee acknowledges the fact that the integrity of its members has been put on the line. This is indeed a litmus test to them. Whichever way is the outcome, it'll have a lasting effect on their career.
All eyes is on you. The ball is in your court. Do everything within your ability to protect your hard learned reputation