Once a people especially youth have no viable leader the
inevitable happens, things get escalated because they and even the tiniest of
situations get to be blown out of proportion just because they can and have the
freedom to do so. This is the case of students of Tai Solarin University of
Education who for reasons best known to them decided to take matters into their
own hands and show their grievances in ways they know best.
There has been previous situations like this that has been
resolved without anything being vandalized or the media getting wind of it. The
fact that the students believe they can vandalize school property and get away
with it still baffles me as it’s their future that is at stake here anyway this
situation pans out. Vandalizing
properties and passing your information are two different things, where one
tells of what you really want the other just simply shows what you would do if
such happens or has happened as the case may be.
It all started with the declaration by the school that any
student that does not pay the school fees before exams would not be allowed to
write exams. There has been widespread information even departments have pasted
lists of students that have paid and hereby qualified to write the exams hereby
making it easier for anyone who has a problem to either come forward or find a
viable solution. To every problem there
are 3 ways to go about it, its either you go above it, below it or go through
it, I can’t say the one these set of students decided to go with but its
obvious it backfired and to realize that the SUG President actually knew about
this act and let them go through with it leaves much to be desired, it only
shows that he is not qualified to be a leader neither does he have the IQ of a
politician. This situation has happened a couple of years ago and it was
resolved amicably without anybody carrying even a cardboard or placard, for it
to now escalate to carrying stones, sticks and all sorts just shows the level
of immaturity of both the leaders and the followers.
There have been protests all around the country since the beginning of this year and the only ones that resolved to violence are the ones involving the terrorists or Thugs hired by Political parties to disrupt meetings and conventions. Even in this same school when the sitting governor wanted to scrap the school there was a protest dubbed “Occupy Tasued” where there was always a meeting point and everything is said from motivational speeches to steps taken to resolve the issue, nobody carried stick to the government house or vandalized properties. If the SUG members are really ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ then not only have they failed the electorate but their generation as a whole from the President to the PRO and the SPC too.
After all is said and done the solution is still not in
sight, their goal has not been achieved and they might spend the next couple of
months sitting at home while some would nurse wounds they could have avoided
all together. It is really stupid for someone to still go about vandalizing
things at this age and time and thinks that would resolve issues. Their
counterparts in LASU never vandalized and still they were arrested, they simply
took to the streets and sat there cooking and singing making their grievances
known until they got the attention of the Governor. The deed has been done and I believe now is
the turn of school to do their own vandalism and I just hope it won’t affect
some people for the rest of their lives.
With that I say shame on the entire SUG as a whole, the
perpetrators, the conspirators and even the ones that kept quiet believing if
they don’t speak it can’t affect them. Shame on all of you. The lot of you
should never smell a public office ever or a place of authority except you have
learnt vividly the wrongs of what you have done and prevent it in the future.
Next time behave like educators, students, leaders and eventually Nigerians.
You can always leave your comments and contributions in the comment section. Thanks
No comments:
Post a Comment