The story on your website Saharareporters.com has caught my attention and I want to take pain to join issues with Mr. Adeyemi Azeez Olalekan, who claimed to be student union president of the Kwara State Polytechnic. Olalekan, from my perception look like a new recruit to Governor Saraki image making organization.
In an attempt to upturn the truth on the situation on Nigerian campuses, I am not actually perturbed by the responses from the Rector and registrar of the institution who are both government appointees and by implications are Saraki’s servants who must do his biddings at all time.
Of course, I am highly disturbed and disappointed with the response of the so-called student union president (Mr Adeyemi Azeez Olalekan). How would somebody explain to the whole world today that the situation of Nigerian public schools are okay?
If I may quote him again: “The student’s hostels are very okay and among the best in the country with all the necessary facilities like water, decent toilets, ward-robes, adequate power supply and conducive environment for study. I have been living in the hostel since my ND days. Each student has a bed assigned to him and there are recreational centers.”
Conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it. I am sure when Lekan sits down to analyze between the truths which he knows and the letter drafted for him to send to Saharareporters to polish somebody’s image, he will know that he has betrayed the entire students that elected him as the President of the Union. If really he was elected and not appointed by the rector of Kwara Poly.
The state of today’s students’ movement gives great cause for concern. Money politics, confraternal brigandage, ideological hollowness and questionable fraternity with any government in power are the order of the day.
A month old baby knows that there is no water and adequate power supply anywhere in Nigeria. Not even in federal institutions in Nigeria can anyone claim that there is a “conducive environment” to study talkless of a state Polytechnic that has been abandoned for so many years.
The situation in Nigeria today is beyond Bukola Saraki. It is about the corrupt system that brought people like Bukola Saraki to power with deliberate attempt to deny young people like you a sound education in order to perpetuate the culture of ignorance that will continue to keep people like you in everlasting darkness.
An educated mind is a liberated soul. The hopeful future of Nigeria is in the hands of young leaders like you and I. Everybody know the situation on campuses and state of education in Nigeria. I advise you never to allow yourself to be used again.
Oludare Ogunlana is former NANS President and wrote from Baltimore, MD, USA
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