A
student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Adeyeye Olorunfemi of the Faculty
of Environmental Sciences department of Building has been rusticated for 4
semesters for criticising the management of the institution.
It
will be recalled that the authorities of the institution recently rusticated 11
executive members of the school’s Students’ Union executives, including its
president, Muhammed Olaniyan, over the April 2016 protest.
The
affected students were rusticated between two and four semesters, which took
effect from the second semester of the 2015/2016 academic session.
Those
serving two-semester penalty were informed to apply for readmission at the
beginning of the second semester of the 2016/2017 academic session, while those
that are out for four semesters are advised to reapply in the second semester
of 2017/2018 academic session.
One
of the students, Adeyeye Olorunfemi’s was suspended for criticising the
leadership of the institution on their inability to manage situations as
“democrats”.
The
student expressed his mind in his article titled, "The Senate of the University
of Lagos; a Conglomeration of Academic Ignorami”.
The
article reads:
The
Senate of the University of Lagos; a Conglomeration of Academic Ignorami.
The
University of Lagos prides itself as a cosmopolitan University and over the
years has maintained the status quo of excellence among her peers in Nigeria and
the world at large. I promise not to make this BOMB as lengthy and circuitous
as my last post on this medium. I will also make it as lucid as possible.
I
mentioned in my last article WHAT IS GREAT ABOUT THE GREAT NIGERIA STUDENTS the
jejunity of the Mission statement of the UNILAG, Hardly had I finished the
article when the whole statement of mine started receiving fulfilment. One
would call me a prophet!
I
now see the reason for the backwardness of my Nation, we blame those at the
corridor of “power” forgetting those at the corridor of “education”; the
corridor of “common sense “.I am a discussant of History and it has made me
realise that from time immemorial, whenever there is problem in the society, tertiary
institutions are places of solace, they are citadels of solutions.
Government
would go to schools to consult undergraduates, lecturers; professors as they
posed to be the backbone of the society. Now, Nigeria is in shambles, the
economy is crumbling, where is Dr Nduibisi Nwokoma of the Economics department?
Buhari is still waiting for your economic model computation and those
econometrics rubbish theories you teach your students
Prof.
G.L Oyekan! There is infrastructural decay! Prof. Idoro Godwin, buildings are
collapsing and projects are poorly handled! This is not project planning class
where you come to disturb students with your unending battery of questions e.g
What is Objective?.. Answer- Objective is… Question 2 - What is “is”?. What a
comedian!
Vice
Chancellor sir! You remain a first class Chemical engineering graduate from
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife. What has happened to the Great Ife in you! Our
power generation is deteriorating and you are alive. The Nation’s investment of
knowledge on you to make you a scholar is a WASTE. Your first class honours
degree is the true definition of a FIASCO.
That’s
by the way, the protest that led to Senate’s resolution to dissolve the Student
Union and the forceful blood covenant Oath-taking was a peaceful one. One that
started on a calm note with the intention to end in a day only if the DSA or VC
came to talk to the students during the act. The Egocentricity of an African
man would not just allow them to come, they are PhD holders. I call them
ACADEMIC IGNORAMUSES.
The
irresponsibility, insensitivity and irresponsiveness to the welfare of the
students of the VC and his mis MANAGEMENT have shown that they are all misfits
when it comes to parenthood.
They
all stood up when the former mistake we had as president tried to rename Unilag
to Maulag because the brand UNILAG gives them the pride they need to sleep with
any girl-student and admission-seekers effortlessly. These are the goings-on in
Unilag, let the world know. The likes of Ogbinaka Karo were ready to tear down
the nation if the renaming was not revoked.
Now,
this is our own issue; Welfarism, we can’t find them. Are they telling me that
the Name issue is greater than Welfarism. Is the aesthetics of a building more
important than the structural stability? , If you don’t know, go ask the MD,
Lekki Gardens.
My
secondary school teacher once told me that during his days at the University of
Ibadan, they protested when the chicken on their breakfast meal was reduced to
1 instead of the usual 2. For Christ’s sake, was it this same Nigeria? .
We
never asked for all these things Bello and his cohorts enjoyed, all we asked
for was water/light and all we could get from a sensible Senate is the threat
of expulsion. Are there no “common sense” persons in the management anymore? We
mourn late Prof. Ayodele Awojobi freshly...
I
promised not to make this too lengthy but I stand in this era for change as I
don’t want to be much too a victim of circumstances because I have never gained
anything from this system of education. I learn everything myself just like
most of us. My lecturers are too busy to teach but are very ready to threaten
you with failure. Where is Julius Faremi?
I
am ready not as Adekunle Gold but as an active citizen for any step they might
want to take against me. E e ba mi ni’be. I remain Adeyeye Olorunfemi.
#IwontSign.
#RescueULSU
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