Our Leaders Have Gone Mad Again -By Shittu Aminah

I read a post on LAUTECH STUDENTS’ UNION PAGE about #FundLautech and it was then I decided that truly, ‘our leaders have gone mad again’. I cannot imagine that a state university that is funded by two state governments can be in such crises. I expect such a state university to be one of the best in terms of timely payment of staff, stable academic calender, academic and residential facilities for students, health care system for its students and staff. But, the case is not so as the university can only boost of one of the worst academic calender with students in the same class since 2015, unpaid salaries of staff to the point a staff cannot afford to pay for health care for his child, which is highly pathetic.

A state of emergency should be called on both states as the ‘so called economic crises in the states’ is the reason for this. The Leaders of these two states need to get their heads checked as they keep releasing uncouth statements about the situation day in day out. With the way things are going in this country especially in the education sector, resuscitation would no longer be an option. ‘Survival’ would be a desperate call, as Nigeria might be likened to ‘a vast mass of Land with ashes everywhere, ashes of all sectors in this country, ashes of the Labour of Our Heroes Past, ashes of the Future of the Unborn Generation, ashes of the shadows of the Giant of Africa’.

A vivid example is the CCT trial of Saraki, a shame to our Judicial arm of government. The so called ‘anti-corrupt President’ called Saraki a ‘pure politician’ and I am trying to get the whole message behind it.

If we as a people don’t ‘take the bull by its horns’ and set things right, we will have ourselves and only ourselves to blame.

On this note, I am soliciting for help from well meaning Nigerians and Foreigners, philantropist, stakeholders of a better Nigeria and all and sundry to please come to Ladoke Akintola University of Technology’s rescue. If truly the youths are the ‘Leaders of tomorrow’, then they should be entitled to their Legacy which is education.

I also want to use this opportunity to solidarise with the entire students’ body of the University of Ibadan and every other tertiary institution facing oppression in the face of tyranny. The tyrants who believe being the ‘constituted authorities’ give them the rights to oppress the oppressed will one day soon, meet their waterloo.

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