On this occasion Mr Ibikunle Amosun is summoned to our Editorial Tribunal to account for his unwarranted meddlesomeness in the Student Union politics/election of the Ogun State Institute of Technology, Igbesa as he is on record to have invited the students of OGITECH all the way from Igbesa to his office in Abeokuta to swear to an oath of good behaviour, something that could easily be done at their College Campus as we do not object to any civilize method that can keep the students in check.
This action of the Governor, even though well meaning is not only ridiculous, but is tantamount to descending so low from an Olympian height to getting involved in young people's affairs.
Affairs that concern students in any part of the globe can well be handled by a competent head, that is why serious nations, the world over have as heads of institutions, very competent people who understand students or young people's psychology, unlike in Nigeria where people are given positions of honour, not through competitive performance, but via hereditary privilege.
By inviting young people at that level to his office, is not only fraught with dangers on the way such as road accidents, getting attacked by armed robbers or in these days of general insecurity in the country, where kidnapping is rampant, students unlucky could get kidnapped, raped on the way, molested in one way or another or suffer many unforseen mishaps, but it is passing a vote of no confidence, probabably on his rector- stooge, Mrs Olufunke Akinkurolere, who by our reckoning if she had attained the position of rectorship through the instrumentality of competitive performance should be able to organise her students in the best possible way she thought pleased on behalf of their parents, the good people of Ogun State, and by extention, the Nigerian Federation.
By having time to get involved in students affairs, Amosun who now double as both the Governor of Ogun State and the Rector-General or Rector-in-Chief of OGITECH, should be asked the pertinent question: What time does he have to attend burning issues of the State? If by inviting students to his office to take an oath of good behaviour, Amosun is telling the Rector of the college: "I don't trust you to maintain peace and order at Igbesa", the pertinent question therefore, to ask is: Why keep Mrs Akinkurolere, in the first place to be receiving salaries for "gross incompetency?"
As the Rector of the College, Mrs Akinkurolere, in the discharge of her duties has the police to help out, if as an administrator, she perceived things could get out of hand during the student union elections. We believe very strongly that at that exalted level, especially in these days of general insecuirty in the country, the Rector should constitute a security committee who would be liaising with the police on daily basis as well as other operators of emergency services, especially with the location of the college in such an idyllic and a bucolic environment.
Amosun's unneccessary intervention brings to the fore the fact that virtually every facet of the Nigerian society has been corrupted by power-hungry political officials like him who want to have every person of voting age in their pockets to be teleguided during elections.
Needless interference such as this is what has led to the destruction of the once otherwise cherished values of independence in tertiary institutions across the country including student unionism as political officials have deliberately turned everybody within their sphere of governance into robbots, puppets and marionettes as exmplified in the current generation of graduates, hence the nation is today left with I CONCUR CITIZENS. This explains the current dearth in Nigeria of strong-willed people like Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Tai Solarin, Mrs Olufumilayo Ransome-Kuti, the Beko trio, Soyinka, all great Ogunians/Ogunites, Great Zik, Margaret Ekpo, Gani Fawehimi, Bala Usman, Aminu Kano, Gambo Sawaba, Chief Michael Imodu, Air Iyare, etc.
And Amosun upon reflection would agree with us that the entire nation is not only the worse for it because of the absence of such rebels, 'mad' citizens, iconoclasts, ultra-radicals, but was indeed better when such figures were still alive. The dumbing down of everything in the Nigeria of today accounts for the pervasiveness of cocoyam leaf citizens, whose number one consideration in all they think, say and do is their bellies!
Also, what Amosun and his ilks don't seem to know is the fact that the nation and Africa are the ultimate losers as it is such unwarranted intrusion by political officials in theaffairs of the continents' citadels of learning that has resulted in the type of low quality graduates who do not have confidence in themselves as being churned out from Africa's higher institutions of learning, hence the pervasiveness of increasing colonial mentality amongst Africans and their rulers, for did Muhammadu Buhari and other good-for-nothing political officials not just return from the U.S.A., where they had gone to receive DEMOCRACY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE TUTORIALS from their colonial Headmaster, Barack Obama, an African like them?
ABOUT THE FOUR MISSING LAPTOS AND PURPORTED DAMAGES
As claimed in the notice placed on the website by the Management of the College signed by the Registrar, there had been damages in which each student is expected to pay N10, 000 for the so-called damages which involved the stealing of four laptops and the windows the thieves had broken in order to access the Computer Laboratory which they made away with and also, each student is expected to pay N5, 000 meant for an affidavit to which they are to swear to, attesting to their good behaviours, whilst their studentships lasted at OGITECH.
But for onscience's and God's sakes, why visit the sin of a few on the entire students with respect to the stolen four laptops and the so-called damages which were just broken windows which enabled the thieves had access to make away with just four laptops?
Following the incident at OGITECH, the police as is characteristic of them took advantage of the situation and the students alike as they were going about molesting every student that came within their radar and hurling them into detension - this, the Board of Governors must look into and bring all such stupid and very officious police to justice and demand adequate compensations for their victims. The police should be going after Boko Haram, kidnappers, cultists and other criminals, and certainly not students!
Pray, what is the busisness of some meddlesome community leaders in college matters who have connived with the rector to 'rob' the entire student population of this enormous amount of money which is sure to run into millions of Naira, and cannot be accounted for at the end of the day - the money which we are very sure will end up in private pockets and bank accounts.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH OLUFUNKE?
What we can't understand is: Is Mrs Olufunke Akinkurolere so weak like Muhammadu Buhari that she cannot take decisions by herself? Why is everybody interferring in the affairs of the College she is presiding as the rector, is Funke so incompetent?
Why is every Amosun and Osun undermining Funke's authority, does she suffer indecision?
Or is she one of those institutional stooges/cronies holding forth for their godfathers?
As the payment of N15, 000 per student has been made a pre-condition for sitting for examinations, between the 23rd of July - August 12th, 2015, we hasten to warn Funke and the community leaders goading her on in this bare face robbery exploit, they must read the signs of the time - these times when parents and guardians are not being paid salaries, any additional burden on them by anybody, no matter how highly placed is not just purposeless malignity, but bare face robbery!
Funke, if we may ask: How did you, your management and community leaders arrive at this N15, 000 per student? Which firm did the costing?
What is more, any money that has been collected by the school authorities regarding these monkey tricks must be returned to each student that has paid with interest - save
their school fees.
