What is happening in our university is very disappointing and infuriating. Over 400 buses and 300 bikes were sent out overnight because they were considered “not aesthetic enough.” In their place? Just 50 buses and 30 tricycles donated by Her Excellency, the First Lady of the Federal Republic.
How do you replace a system that served tens of thousands with something that cannot even meet a fraction of the demand?
Over 10,000 students who already suffer from lack of accommodation are now forced to endure daily stress, delays, and exhaustion just to get to class. This is not reform o, this is unnecessary punishment.
And in the middle of a semester, students in Blocks 7 & 8 of Awolowo Hall are told to vacate for renovations, with no clear, humane alternative. Where are they supposed to go?
But here is what makes it even more painful and honestly very insulting. Students cried out, students protested peacefully, students demanded to be heard. Management called an emergency meeting… not to solve the transport crisis, not to address welfare, not to fix the broken system, but to tell students to GO HOME. Go home? For what? For speaking up? For demanding basic living and learning conditions?
This is a university. A supposed citadel of intellectualism. And this is how students are treated? No urgency for things that matters or the concerns been placed on the tables. We have poor health facilities, Irregular lecture schedules, Broken learning environments! These aren’t enough grounds to call emergency meetings??? But sharp sharp, immediate action when students refuse to suffer quietly and decide to speak up.
And the school PRO, this is not even the time for polished statements and big grammar. This is not a press exercise. Students are not asking for vocabulary, we are asking for solutions. Every time real issues are raised, you respond with carefully constructed words that dodge the problem instead of addressing it. Enough. We don’t need explanations that sound good and are false, we need actions that actually work. ‘Unruly conducts’???? Really??!! ‘Efforts to engage and appeal for calm’, you?
Her Excellency Ma, we refuse to believe this was your intention. A donation meant to help students has been twisted by the management into a policy that has made life significantly harder for thousands. If you truly knew the reality on ground, would this still be acceptable?
@KukoyiBusola
We are angry.
We are exhausted.
We are done being ignored.
Students are not decorations for the managements “aesthetic” goals on OAU campus.
We are human beings trying to survive, learn and graduate.
#SaveOAU #NoToBadTransportSystem #NoToRenovationDuringTheSession