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SAVE OUR SOULS FROM THE TYRANT AND UNDUE INTERFERENCE OF MANAGEMENT BEHIND OUR UNION CRISIS - CHTASU EXECUTIVES
Frankz Fanon had us in mind when he posited that "every generation out of relative obscurity must define its mission; either to fulfil or betray it." For too long, we have remained silent and fought in silence against the bastardisation of a legacy handed down to us by our predecessors by one single wolf in sheep's clothing, Omoboyowa Oyewole Isaac. Omoboyowa masked himself a comrade and rode on the back of a grossly ineffectual management team to become the Students' Union President of Ondo State College of Health Technology, Akure. That singular mistake by the students have spelled untoward gloom over the campus.
As elected executives of the students' union, it is a privilege given to serve the mass and should be jealously guarded against the whims and caprices of those who our colleagues gave us the mandate to protect them from - management. It breaks our heart to inform our esteemed colleagues that not only have we been led to failure in this onerous task, but have been successfully handicapped. We owe it a point of duty to relay to you all what have been happening behind the scenes since the unfortunate proscription of the union and the subsequent appointment of a bootlicking Caretaker Committee.
Of a truth, while some of us took it upon ourselves to effect the desired change, Omoboyowa Oyewole Isaac enthroned himself a clog in the wheel. While snakes, scorpions, dangerous ants invade our hostels as a result of poor sanitary conveniences, bushes around the hostels, epileptic power supply, the management board cared more about what happens within the Union. We know this is not unconnected to the fact that they know a united executives council would have put them on their toes and demand for what's right. The effective use of divide and rule implemented by the management team suck deep into the fabric of our constitutional rights and since Omoboyowa Oyewole, in connivance with Management, has refused to inaugurate a Senate arm which constitutionally should serve as a watchdog to check and balance our excesses, we were left in the hands of a monstrous cartel that is dedicated to gagging us.
Nothing hurts more than to see a crime being committed by those who are expected to curb such crimes. Our institution, being a training College, is expected to be a decent place where the best behaviour are expected of not only the students but the trainers who should lead by example. One might mistake our campus for an NDLEA Dump Site as students smoke Indian hemp indiscriminately on campus without check. We have complained bitterly about this to the provost, Dr. Olawoye Felix and the Dean of Students Affairs, Mr. Ogunro but they seems incapable of doing the needful. Omoboyowa Oyewole that is expected to lead us to demand a clean up of the whole messy scenario is unfortunately the chief culprit. On numerous occasions, we've been threatened fiercely by Omoboyowa Oyewole and his fellow junkies -among the junkies were arrested one day and locked up at the security unit ,at midnight they broke the place and escape,when we informed the management, they did not do anything about it. How can a student of College of Health Technology dress like a rockstar to school? It smirks of every logic of reasoning. However, we've traced this to the gross selfish act of management to admit, for instance in the Community Health Department, Six Hundred(600) students for a class and the regulatory body will only accept Sixty(60). To prune the students after they have been duped of their hard earned money, Management set numerous traps on the way in the names of exams. The names of these exams are even as funny as the process; probational exam e.g A situation where six hundred(600) students sat down for the exams and over four hundred (400)students will score above 60-63% and management will still weed them after they might have paid huge amount of money . These students most times remain on campus and wreck massive havoc. They tint their hairs, smoke weed and rape our colleagues. When we confront management, they feign ignorance by claiming the weeded students are not under their care, again.
If only all these atrocious acts weren't enough, Omoboyowa Oyewole and management treat us with disdain for asking questions. Omoboyowa Oyewole became an emperor and ditched the constitution of the Union. Without a legislative arm, other executives met and wrote to him on 13th of December, 2019 to tell him we have passed a vote of no confidence in him and that he should forward a letter of resignation to us as we are setting up an audit committee to investigate numerous financial recklessness levied against him, which he complied with by resigning on the 16th of December, 2019 and the executive make use of Aticle 2 Section 3 of subsection 2 A&C of the union constitution and declare the Vice President Kamaldeen Rukayat to be the Acting President. To our utmost dismay, we got information that Omoboyowa Oyewole had constituted an Electoral Committee led by one Olajide Tolulope which he has no constitutional right to single handedly constitute. Out of nowhere, management proscribed the Union and in a funny reversal endorsed the fraudulent Electoral committee Chairman led by one Olajide Tolulope constituted by the suspended President Omoboyowa Oyewole now as the interim student union chairman. This is nothing but an act of provocation, invite to anarchy and abuse of powers. To turn the heat on us, management labelled us "anti-government". What's anti-government when the management has been sponsoring the suspended President Omoboyowa Oyewole against the government e.g NANS Zonal convention and other? What's anti-government in demanding for an independent executive council that will work to clean the school of the uncountable messes it's been thrown into? What's anti-government in asking that management stop duping the masses with its poor admission process? For too long, we have respected constituted authorities but it will be in the interest of all that everyone respects it's boundaries. Our eyes aren't blind nor are we dumb to talk. Let it be on record that it is the management that has encouraged Omoboyowa Oyewole to go against government and it's agents in the past. An example is the sponsoring of Omoboyowa Oyewole to Lagos for NANS Zonal Convention without informing the executives council. It is sheer overzealousness to name it anti-government when management has been the one taking maintenance and medical fees from us with nothing to show for it. Students believe all these money is going to government coffers which obviously reverse has been the case. What could be more anti-government than painting government bad in the face of students? For the records, when a student had an accident and was referred to Federal Medical Centre, Owo, the school management refused to released any of the buses or cars in their care to transport the student. If not for the intervention of the DPO of Ala Police Station, the student would have died and a massive crisis would have engulfed the institution. Sometimes, one wonder if the current management care about our welfare?
Conclusively, we plead that the Supervisory Ministry set up an investigative committee to confirm or debunk these claims, as if serious care is not taken, we will not be shy to go to the barricade. The massive infrastructural decay on campus is enough to preoccupy the management but for pecuniary gains, a blind eye is shown to our plight. Attached are pictures of hills wastes, bushes, dilapidated hostel, etc. We have nothing against government and this is not about government. The ineffectiveness of the management lead by Dr. Olawoye Felix to our plights is going to turn majority of students against government. Our right is our right!
Kamaldeen Rukayat
Acting President
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