NOTE: Mr Adeyeye has since been rusticated for 2years by the school authorities for this write-up
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 NIGERIAN STUDENTS the jejunity of the mission
statement of the UNILAG, hardly had I finished the article when the
whole statement of mine started receiving fulfillment. 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, Ile- 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
misMANAGEMENT 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 the 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 too much of a
victim
of circumstance 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.
University of Lagos
April, 2016
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