Our demands remains sacrosanct !
Fifty-five years ago Nigerians fly’s the flag of freedom, the heroic rough and tough journey, the history of welfare, pogroms, massacres, assassinations, misguided ballot and misdirected bullets, the catalogue of catastrophes, the options of the confederations, the women liberationist, the labour unionist, students unionist, the prime ministerialists, the presidentialists, the collective dictatorists, the welfarists, the democratic, the socialist, the zero-party mentocrats, the static’s, the religionists, the provincialisms, the one-party unitarists, the multi-party federationists, the indigenous traditionist, the communalists, the revolutionary socialist, the French systemists, the billionairists, the anarchists even the coalitions of armed robbers,so many postulations for today’s existence.
NIGERIAN STUDENTS STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL EMANCIPATION
Nigerian students involvement in the Nigerian struggle is dated far before independence, the protest against the visitation of queen Elizabeth ii to Nigeria in 1956, demonstration against the colonial administration demanding for immediate independence for Nigeria when Ghana gained independence in 1957, countless revolutionary jihad for the democratization of education in Nigeria, the role of segun okeowo in eliminating illiteracy and eradicating ignorance. Consolidating predecessors struggles by the present generation of Nigerian students, struggle against disorganization, maladministration of the system, poverty, ignorance, conspicuous disease and other “mortuary wreckages” that litter the whole country.
THE NIGERIANS WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION
To describe Nigerian’s economic and social dilemma as masculine is to stress the obvious, the war against corruption from a leader with masculine orientation (military) is the long expected prescription to the menace but not in a feminine, gradualist and moderate approach the president is giving the Nation’s daily increasing problems. The lunching of war against corruption by the PMB administration is a welcome phenomenon however it should not be a political whip, witch-hunting or mare scary political statement. We like to assert that corruption is not exclusive preserve of the politicians but rather a cankerworm that has eaten deep into the fabrics of the society.
A CALL FOR THE ABOLISHMENT OF HND/BSC DICHOTHOMY
For decades vibrant student leaders have been pushing the struggle to equate Higher National Diploma certificate to Bachelors degree. The campaign of war against the greater corruption in the education sector, the injustice of HND / BSC discrimination from point of admission to the labour market, calls to notice of our derailing system from the legacies of the foreigners we tends to be emulating, comparison of our education standard with Ghanaians whose polytechnics awards Bachelor in Technology.
The verbal pronunciation of equating the two certificate by president Olusegun Obasanjo (fmr), reversal of the statement and latter upgrading four polytechnic to city university by president Musa Yar’adu, also upgrade reversal and setting up of committee to look into the duo certificates latter announcing upgrade of four colleges of education to university of education by president Goodluck Jonathan and also the reversal of the upgrade by the incumbent president is a clear picture of corruption at its peak. The abolishment of HND/ BSC dichotomy remains the panacea to the root cause of corruption in Nigeria.
FINALLY I hold the opinion that the past of Nigeria is black, that the present is bleak and that the future is blank. Because the future is blank however, there seems to be some ray of hope. This is why the struggle for meritocratisation of education (polytechnics must award b.tech) is not futile.
Long live Nigeria
Struggle continues
Victory is certain
Signed
Comrade Olugbode Damola (D-Mode)
National NAPS PRO
