The student opened the
letter she was clutching
in her hands and felt the
walls around her
crumble.
As Jane Ottah stood
outside her
departmental office at
the Rivers State
University of Science and
Technology, the reality
of what she had just
read began to gradually
sink in.
“What I saw in the letter
was the shock of my
life,” said Ms. Ottah, 28,
who was in her first year
in the Department of
Educational Foundation.
“This was a thing I will
never believe, this was
the one thing that could
have taken away my life
if it wasn’t for the help
of my friends who were
there when I was about
to faint.”
On January 30, 2015, the
university terminated
Ms. Ottah’s admission
over claims of speech
and hearing challenges.
“I am directed to state
that during your recent
medical examination in
the Health Services
Department, it was
observed that you are
medically challenged and
have hearing and speech
difficulties,” read the
letter signed by C.M
Ewhorlu, Principal
Assistant Registrar
(Senate) of the
university.
“I am further directed to
state that as a result of
these difficulties our
team of medical
personnel found it
impossible to
communicate with you.
“Since the
University does not have
special communication
facilities, the Vice-
Chancellor has directed
that you be de-
registered on health
grounds. I am in the
circumstance, directed to
inform you that you have
been de-registered on
health grounds with
immediate effect.
“You are therefore
advised to hand over all
University property(ies)
in your possession to
your Head of
Department and
thereafter leave the
campus.”
A ‘Special’ Student?
Despite the university’s
claims that she was a special
student, Ms. Ottah insisted she had
no such challenges.
After initially applying to study
Business Administration at the
university, Ms. Ottah was offered
an admission to read Educational
Foundations in September 2014.
When the school reopened a month
later, she joined other fresh
students for the admission
formalities, which included a
medical check-up at the
institution’s medical centre.
“As soon as I went there and I was
asked what is wrong with my
voice, I told the doctor that I have a
voice problem, that I can talk but at
times my voice is somehow,” Ms.
Ottah told PREMIUM TIMES during
a Whatsapp chat.
“I was not with my hearing aid the
day I went there., and she (the
doctor) didn’t understand me very
well but the other younger doctor
was there as well who was asking
me questions about what happened
to my voice and I decided to tell her
about my hearing problem as well.
“And she asked me some questions
like how did it happened and I told
her. She seemed to understand me
a bit but the elder doctor didn’t.
“And she asked about my eyes just
because I was putting on glasses.
And I told her that I do have eyes
problem and she checked my eyes
and put it down on a book.
”And she asked me if I was sick as
a kid because of my hearing loss. I
told her no. It just happened in a
way that one can’t tell.
“So she asked about my secondary
school, if it was a deaf school. I told
her no, it’s not a deaf school I went
to.”
According to her West African
Examination Council result made
available to PREMIUM TIMES, Ms.
Ottah finished from Hallel College
in Rumuogba, Port Harcourt, with
three distinctions and five credits.
At the university medical centre,
Ms. Ottah said she overheard the
doctors discussing the possibility of
her coping with the academic
rigours.
“From that day, nothing was bad. I
was busy with assignment, project,
test, and planning for my first
semester exams in February,” she
said.
The school went on Christmas
break on December 22, 2014, and
resumed on January 5th, 2015.
Everything seemed fine for Ms.
Ottah.
Until the first semester
examination began.
“On the first paper, there was a
paper that the lecturer will give
you to sign if your name is there,
and if you see your name on the list
you have to sign there and I did
mine,” she said.
Ms. Ottah said she signed against
her name during her second and
third papers.
However, on the day of the fourth
paper, trouble surfaced.
“I didn’t see my name on the list to
sign and I was worried that I asked
my course mate and she direct me
to go to the ICT centre to check,”
she said.
“I went there with two of my
course mates and we were told that
they couldn’t find my name on the
list but my name was there and
that they couldn’t see the course I
requested, and I was told it was
from the medical centre. They
blocked me from there.
“And I went with my course mate
and met with the doctor, crying
with a shaky voice which made her
not to understand what I was
talking about and I decided to call
my friend to speak on my behalf.
For example, I will talk to her and
she will tell them what I am
saying.
”As soon as we were done talking,
the doctor said she once one told
me that day I was in her office that
I should come the other day but I
didn’t. I was so busy that I forget
about it. She sent me to my
Department Office.”
It was at the Department Office
that a lady delivered the letter
which bore the shattering news to
Ms. Ottah.
“In school, no one ever knew about
my hearing problem, it was just my
voice they knew,” she said.

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Speech and hearing problems, and she is not even aware she had those problems?

Sister get Rid of these people...

the poster just above me need jesu

MKO4ever:

what they did was a crime.