LETTER TO MY FELLOW STUDENTS:

LETTER TO MY FELLOW STUDENTS:

It’s more than four months and we are still sitting silently in this dungeon, like a patient waiting helplessly for the sharp blade of the knife of the surgeon. We have been help against our will, as captives of a decayed academic structure.

       What is rightfully ours have been forcefully taken from us. We have been denied our mental food; our limbs are now too weak to fight back.

       The infamous Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is gradually digging the foundation of our future (education), and has left us in the bitter experience of psychosomatic trauma. In a bid to salvage the academic structure, they are gradually unearthing the foundation of those structures.

       Our education sector is now a victim of the whims and caprice of politics. This strike is a typical solecism of our lettered professors. Their much vaunted academic prowess has been put to question, following their recent actions.

       We have heard and received a lot of canards with regards to the strike. But the truth is that we are not going back to school anytime soon. the last NEC meeting held on Saturday 23rd November 2013, was just another of those meeting held, merely to waste time and to fulfill all righteousness, as no conclusions were reached. While 60% of the academic gurus agitated for a call off, the rest were praying for a probe into the death of their colleague who they claimed was assassinated, and so the strike can go on.

       It is our belief that one day we shall be free from the mental torture and inhumane treatment meted on us by our captors (ASUU). This is a battle for our right and we must fight to any height.

Yours Sincerely

Augustus C.

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HOT GISTS:

HOT GISTS:

Ø     Those agitating for the total cancellation of Anambra guber elections are indirectly advocating for the extension of Gov Obi's tenure. if it took INEC more than 1 year to prepare and organize an election that will later be cancelled due to incompetence, how long does one think it will take them to prepare and organize an election that will later be upheld. Probably this time it will take 2 or more years, thereby extending Obi's tenure which has barely few months to lapse.

Ø     Hon. Uche Ekwunife should be ashamed of her recent political actions. During the campaign she was one of the APGA stalwarts that raised Obiano's hand and declared him the best candidate for Anambra. How come she's now going to court to contest Obiano's legibility to contest? She probably thinks that the events of Rivers state, (where Omehia won and Rotimi took over six months later, after Omehia's legibility was contested and won in court) would happen in Anambra. Her political advisors, if she has any, should wake her from this pipe dream. She should have a better dream than that of becoming a Governor in 2014.

Ø     Without being bias, I think this ASUU strike is becoming one of those dirty games of politics. They now claim that their dead colleague was assassinated, and so the mystery behind his death should be unraveled before they can call off the strike. They also want the President to pay them the 4months salary that was held during the time of their strike. Who is fooling who? Have we forgotten the saying: "no work, no pay"? You leave your work place for 4months in the name of strike, and expect salary for those months. I seriously think that all those professors need a therapy to evaluate their mental proficiency, because they are recently behaving like retards.

Augustus C.

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MIRROR OF LIFE.

MIRROR OF LIFE.

Each time I look into the mirror, I have three questions in mind. Do I see who I was? Do I see who I am? Or do I see who I want to be? Unfortunately, there is no one around to answer these questions but myself.

I have lied to myself most times. I have always thought that I am better than the drug addict that smokes hemp in the bush behind my house; I have thought myself to be better than the derelict that sleeps in the street; I have thought myself to be better than the drop-out who now uses the trigger to earn a living. Maybe I have been wrong all this while.

       Looking at the mirror this morning, I saw a shadow, a shadow I have thought for so long to be myself; A shadow that bears the exterior and not my interior resemblance. For how long have I lived  in ignorance. How long have I ignored my mistakes because no one was there to see them?

       What is the difference between me and the drug addict or the derelict across the street? They all made mistakes like I did, but people never saw mine like they saw theirs.

I have tried enough living in a borrowed world and covering my mistakes in ignorance.

Could this be my past haunting me, or are my being taunted by the image on the broken mirror. Who do I really see in this mirror?

I might have made mistakes in the past, but now I have to correct them, or join the long queue on the line of doom.

Most times in life we think we are better than others, but if we could take a closer look in the mirror of our life, we might see ourselves drowning with others.

Change is not far from the moment when you looked into that mirror. You might not be close to where it started, but if you try, you might be close to where it ends. A decision is taken in a moment, and that moment can change a life.

Augustus C.

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ASUU STRIKE: A HOSTAGE SITUATION

ASUU STRIKE: A HOSTAGE SITUATION

The problem with ASUU and the government is that they don’t understand. They don’t care to know where the students stand. They have been throwing these stones at each other for so long, without caring about who gets caught in the middle.

       Gradually, days run into weeks, months run into years and nobody cares. In a bid to salvage the academic structures of the country, they are gradually unearthing the pillars of these structures.

       What has the death of a man got to do with millions of lives at stake? Why not accord the dead respect with a minute silence or maybe an hour silence or even more, as they may prefer? But no! ASUU chose to postpone a crucial meeting that would decide the fate of Millions of Nigerian Students in order to mourn a dead colleague for seven days.

       I have wondered: what if this man never died? What if he was in coma? I bet ASUU would have told the students to wait till he is out of coma, before anything could be said about the 4 month old strike.

       This strike is gradually becoming a hostage situation. ASUU is the hostile, students, parents government and the entire Education Sector is the hostages. What ransom will be due for ASUU to release the education sector from this hostage situation? 

       I thought the grey hairs of these professors were insignias of wisdom, but their recent actions have made me wonder if these hairs were bleached. Where they should have fought with wisdom of their grey hairs, they have fumbled with dirt in their bare hands.

       This is a breach to our Human rights. We are entitled to sound education, but ASUU have denied us this entitlement, with their subterfuge to hold on the strike. It is high time we demanded justice.

       If we don’t rise up to the situation and tackle this problem with both hands, then we might be using those hands to bury more dead bodies and probably mourn them for the rest of our lives.

Augustus C.

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