The Fees We had to Pay

Then why should collegiate fall victim and act ignorantly even though they said they are in tertiary institution and ready for labour market. What an insolent? That means learning has not yet taken place. The Nathan administration has lost all its equilibrium and it cannot return to it. As if the administration as been inveigled by the management. Less he forget his relationship suppose to be union – students relationship because they voted him not union-management. But the invariant attitude of capitalist whose main motive is the end not minding the means has infiltrated the union and the union has forgetten that is the union, not just to compromise unwisely. Shakespeare in Henry iv says unease lies the head with a crown with connotes with Damocle sword, therefore the President should take note. I am less of important in discusing or suggesting any decision to the Union but to find it as an avenue to expresss my pains since the unions mottos reads in consideration of a single whole which is me. A newly occupied position requires a person who occupies the position to possess any of the following that is wisdom and experiences in other to be succesful. Wisdoms entails using others that are intelligent and competent to serve as an adviser while experiences entails your pass events in occuping a positions but the President has none of the two, it take these two in other to revert from negative trends to positive one, if not it ruin like the captivity of Israel in Babylon. And it can be like the road of Damascus where change took place which make St. Paul to pave the way for modern Christianity, pray I so for Nathan, so that others SUG’s President will emulate from him. I write this, not as to mire the union or him but the longer the moment of truth is delayed, the deeper the slump will be, is of this mandate that I chose to put it here so as to get the hard copy instead of discussing it verbally. Therefore, he should take it and his cabinet not as a Voltaire’s approach but as an act other to readjust and amend where leaks and act in quickie on decision that affects one which will eventually affects the others because one thing leads to many. And as they have seen for themselves, the frauding of many students; and to serve as a deterrent to others so that they wouldn’t act ignorantly and finally to be as a wake up call to all who intend to be or who have be and hold positions to take drastic steps to liberate the massess from the oppresion of some selected few which we continue to experiencce in our life, homes, place of work, schools, society and country at large. Now the consequences is the fees we had to pay. Please share this message to so that it will reach one and teach one. Say no to oppression, say no to ignorant.

The Fees We Had to Pay

…and somewhere from my first days, other notes came out from my memory to join them but not out of freewill. Then recall I Shakespeare’s Sonnet 27 I quote then begins a journey in my head… I dived into intrinsic thoughts of what freedom I envisaged in the nearness future, of what unionism emancipated, of what typed of unionist one has to be, some use to be die-hard, others radicalist, and others go-between. Thought I again how to rise above the disguise of hostility timidity of tuition fees. These thoughts, have made me in my solitary confinement but not in a dungeon hole but on a spot held by Bursary memo titled to Students or should I say to me alone? I stood dead silent for hours, only to be tap from behind, it distract not my free thinking but the adrenalin of the thoughts continues to flow like a flood of sun in my innate mind as i conversate with him. My mind eye reflected deeply on how to ease or bring the best solution to my malady as I brainstorm. Recall that a Union exist in the institution and its motto reads an injury to one is an injury to all… really that’s a good brainstorming, recall I that the Union has conducted one of the best peaceful election and it was free and fair, and I’ve casted my vote to the President on seat. I ran to him. The SUG President was seated in Block A when I approach him with 3 comrades to relate my oddity in other to sought relief, I presented the Memo and I says take a look at this, he unfold it overtly as he reads… I say you ought to do something about this, he says I will do… that was how our dialogue elapse and I left. I met him again he says a letter has been forwarded to the Management. I was bless assured that, my probelm was entertained and awaits better result if not circumvented by some cabals who wants the admonishment of the masses, which am opportune to be e paribus unum. Then I went home, luckily there was a synonymous outcry ringing daily on the national dailies and as well as news media it makes headlines precisely at Lagos were the SUG fought hard for the reduction of their fees and they won their mandate , next to that was at Osun, were the government made insinuation of reducing their fees just to get cheap political end. The Union fought back at this. Is at this point that I try calling the SUG President but his number is not going. But reverse seems to be the case in our school. A union which has the masses at heart suppose to stop all the channel of communication since a letter was issued to the Management for dialogue amd it has not yet started. To make the case worse, the Bursary was issuing bank tellers to the collegiate. Worsen more, others paid the fee due to they have confidence in the union or due to poor communication. People need results which they can see, touch and feel not just mere words which you will utter to them. As a realist I believe on what is real is real, what I can use my senses organs to see and feel is term metaphysics on mind is not only being real but is real enough. Not to go off the road, is of this circumstance that others student fell victim of a fraudster who paraded himself as a benevolent thirdparty or as a go-between to ease their pain in the payment of tuition fees due to not having the full money and there is no installmental payment. What a cunt! This is a puerile words of divulging from the masses for personal gain since he is not entitled to pay the fees. The union is displaying all the symptoms of senile decay since it cannot stand or seat face to face with the Management to negotiate for the masses. Therefore, if an illicit fee is levied by the Management to the students, is of this, that the students will be extorted by the aid of the union since it has failed. I’ve started to lose hope from the led Nathan administration. How will a final year student be fraud, after staying more than two years in school? How will my younger be educated? When the country constitution stipulated that all have rights to equal and affordable education? It is a thing of distress that the students who fall victim of circumstance was necessitated by I don’t have and the union failure to stand for them. This is a call to all Students to shun being an educated illiterate. Martin says our life begins to end when we keep silent on things that matter, is of this that i intend writing and share my perspectives, higher learning is a not place to earn certificate only it is a place where rights and moral are learnt, it is place where rights to be defended, it is a place where you correct the wrongs happening in the campus and the society, it is a place where shyness is erased to wear in boldness, it is a place where boldness is learn in other to be well articulated, it is a place where courage and team work is build, it is a place where adversity is build and how to stand and overcome it is a place where ignorancy is quench in other to embrace enlightenment and also is a place of interaction… To be