…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
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