Greatest Nigerian Students ! This is injustice of the highest order,
please and please help broadcast this message till the
appropriate authority get it. We MUST sanitize and put a big
STOP to this impunity.

BY NOBLE EYISI JUN 26, 2015
Dear Sir/Madam: Therefore, I, Noble Eyisi, the impeached and
suspended Students’ Union Government President writes this
letter as an appeal for justice in my case. I was elected the
Students’ Union Government President on the 11th of December
2014 and was inaugurated on the 15th of December of that same
year. After my election and the Christmas break, on the 5th of
January, our government embarked on the reduction of
transport fare in the university from N30 to N20. At first, it
seemed an uphill task as the drivers went on strike but with
time and by God’s grace, they were back and conformed to the
new N20 transport scheme.

This gave us a very good recommendation and applause from
the university management, students and citizens of our state
and country. To be candid, the reduction of the transport fare
to N20 was a huge sacrifice from the part of the Students’ Union
Government as I, the former president sacrificed the sum of
N20,000 per day from the Transport Trust Fund (TTF), a sum of
money collected by the SUG from drivers. This Transport Trust
Fund (TTF) was illegal and unconstitutional as it extorted
money from the students (the higher the TTF, the higher the
transport fare). For the general students, it brought us love and
goodwill as we have helped them save N10 whenever they
board a bus, shuttle or keke but from my fellow executives,
Students’ Representative Council members (though not
inaugurated then) and the judiciary, it brought me hatred as
they felt I took away their daily bread because they were
supposed to benefit N8,000 daily from the illegal Transport
Trust Fund (TTF). I was by God’s grace able to navigate the
ship of SUG despite pressures to bring back the Transport Trust
Fund (TTF) up until second semester.

Before the resumption of second semester, I called my fellow
executives for a meeting where I pleaded with them and
convinced them to buy into my idea of reducing the price of
food from N200 to N150 inside the university campus. They all
accepted and agreed to it, the food vendors were called and
most of them accepted but due to the imminent first semester
examinations, we weren’t able to begin implementation.
At the eve of second semester, I brought to the notice of the
students our decision to bring down food price from N200 to
N150, which they all loved, accepted and supported since it
had been a cry in their hearts and it began working as most
food vendors complied. But this policy was greeted by a strong
university management resistance. The Vice-Chancellor called
me expressing his dissatisfaction with it and asked me to make
things right. I felt so sad but I had to obey my superior. So I
rested my case, very much against my wish but my students
felt that their rights, expressions and feelings were being
trampled on. Even if it meant that the rent collected by the
Commercial Ventures of the university from the food vendors be
reduced, let it be, but let the interest of the general students be
heard and protected.

Since the university management did not want the policy to see
the light of the day, I felt so sad and decided to rest my case,
but at the same time, my students still felt cheated. Despite the
management’s high-handedness on them through increment of
fees, institution of new fees, intimidation by university security
agents etc, the management still wanted to extort money from
them through the food prize. With the new implementation of
dues by the management and other increments, the students
began asking me questions relating to monies which they were
asked to pay which was new in the system, increment in some
fees and so on and this led me to write an 8-point letter to the
Vice Chancellor asking him questions which my fellow students
have been asking me. Please sir, find attached an exact copy of
the letter I sent to the Vice Chancellor. (Attachment 1)
It may also please you to find out that there are still other
issues which I did not point out in the letter which includes:
Increment in the General Studies (GS) fee of Year one students
from N1,000 to N4,000
Increment in the Continuous Education Programme (CEP) school
fees from N35,000 to N39, 800,
Payment of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) dues of
N2,500 and yet there is no clinic, how much more obtaining free
medical treatment; amongst many others which may still be
hidden to me.

After I gave him the letter confidentially on the 4th of May, he
called the management staff of the university, entire executives
of the Students’ Union Government, the Speaker, Students’
Representative Council and the Chief Judge of the Students’
Judicial Council to a meeting where he countered the entire
letter point by point. In the meeting which held on the 8th of
May, my phone was seized from me and I was almost slapped
and intimidated by words spoken by the management staff
present in the meeting. I still felt unsatisfied with the response
he gave us and unfortunately the letter got to other fellow
students. While the whole situation grew tense, the Students’
Union Government bus under my care was seized from me, my
friends were arrested and threatened and I too was threatened
by the Personal Assistant to the Vice Chancellor. Please find
attached a copy of this letter (Attachment 2). It is also
important to note that the University management never gave
me money for the maintenance of the SUG bus, though I have
written to them on countless occasions, rather my parents had
always provided me with the money with which I have
continuously repaired and maintained it.
Meanwhile, instead of addressing the issue, the Vice-
Chancellor instigated my fellow executives to sign a vote of no
confidence against me where they accused me of a 5-count
charge. It is also attached here sir (Attachment 3) and after the
impeachment, I responded to the charges and sent them to the
Vice Chancellor of which I am yet to get a reply to (Attachment
4). The response is also attached. My fellow executives also
sued me to the Students’ Union Government Court on a three-
count charge, based on why I brought down the transport fare
from N30 to N20, why I removed the illegal and unconstitutional
Transport Trust Fund (TTF) and why I reduced the price of food
within the university which was all student-oriented.
While the whole situation was growing tense, I thought the
Vice-Chancellor would have managed the situation well despite
media reports, rather he mandated that I be removed quickly
from office. Please sir, newspaper reports from this issue are
also attached here (Attachment 5). The only condition he gave
me to remain in office was to recant all I said in the letter by
calling a press conference which I will address. I was
suspended from being the Students’ Union Government
President of the university on the 18 May, on a Monday, which
was not the normal day the Students’ Representative Council
was to sit. The suspension was unconstitutional and also on
the 22 May, I was impeached. This was made possible by the
Students’ Representative Council members who had strongly
been influenced and bought over by the Vice Chancellor
through their Heads of Departments, hence, they ensured I was
impeached and more because they were threatened that
disobedience would result to problems in their different
courses. It will also please you, sir to note that the suspension
as the Students’ Union Government President was done by the
veto power of the Speaker as majority of the quorum of the
House seated on that day were against it.
After my impeachment, students were really sad and feeling that
their rights had been trampled on, peacefully protested. On the
3rd of June, a peaceful protest was conducted of which I was
also part of. After the protest, I kept on attending lectures
regularly and on Monday, 8 June, a court order was served to
the Vice President and Speaker by the Anambra State High
Court against my suspension as SUG President and
impeachment. On the 11th of June, on entering the university, I
was arrested in the university by a personal security aide to the
Vice Chancellor. I was intimidated and from the Administration
Block of the university, I was dragged into the security van of
the university and taken to the State Security Service
Headquarters of Anambra State located at Amawbia. There and
then, the Director showed me my suspension letter and I was
asked to pack my things immediately and leave the university
and also that I should not be seen in the university until further
notice. I was also asked to sign an undertaking to this which I
did. I kept on asking for a copy of my suspension letter but no
one gave it to me. Accompanied by security agents of the
university, I packed my things and left.

It will also please you to note sir, that on the morning of 11th,
a circular had already been shared to all the security agents in
the university that I should not be seen in the university as I
had been suspended. It was given to them by the Chief Security
Officer of the University. All this happened even with an order
of the Anambra State High Court which I had with me. Please
find attached the statements of the court order (Attachment 6)
and the Chief Security Officer’s circular (Attachment 7).
All through my stay as the Students’ Union Government
President from December up until May, it had been a selfless
service. The only amount of money I had ever received from our
SUG account which should be autonomous was N70,000 which
served as my take-off grant. It came weeks after we had written
a letter to that effect and ever since then I have never received
any of my entitlements as the SUG President. Even a transport
route in the university which the SUG ought to be in charge of
as an Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) for the welfare of the
students was high jacked by a personal security aide to the
Vice Chancellor, Mr. Anayo Anizoba and when I brought up the
issue, the wife of the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Gladys Ahaneku
called me and asked me to take 40% of the money and leave the
remaining 60% to the security aide which I disagreed to.
Finally, in a country where people’s rights are being trampled
upon, I still believe that justice must be upheld. I’m a very
young, patriotic Nigerian citizen of this great country who
decided to serve my country in the capacity of Students’ Union
Government Presidency of my university, and all through my
service in office, I have fought selflessly for the rights and
privileges of my students. I don’t deserve to be kicked out of
the university considering the fact that I have not been involved
in any illegal practices or misconduct. All I have done was for
the best interest of the students and for the good of my
country. I sincerely and desperately appeal to you as a father to
look with pity upon me and consider my case as I have no one
else to run to. Thank you very much sir for your time,
understanding and resolution to intervene on my behalf. God
bless you.

Comrade Noble Eyisi
Department of Political Science
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.


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So what and how do you want Nairalanders to help you?

I feel your pain bro, and I will like to say here that you are not the first victim and likely won't be the last. Exactly this same scenario has played out in my school when I was Vice president of my department as I was part of the coalition that stood out to defend Our honest SUG president when school management moved to impeach him, But our fellow students and some ingrates in the cloak of Man O' War were used to fight us after some threats from the police. The only difference from your case was that the President never allowed it to lead to being expelled from school as we his back up disappeared because we have seen were the problem is getting to as we have no medium to fight or defend Our selves though scouts have been sent out to obtain the names of people Involved, at that point he was impeached and everything went back to normal. I sincerely hope help finds your way but I doubt as these money issues have become a culture to school management and you may be surprised that the Government personels who should come to your aid are aware of the illegal dealings and will one way or the other brush it off.

Confusion everywhere...

This is unacceptable, days of impunity are over in nigeria.