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OAU Press Condemn The Proscription Of ULSU by loylextop(m): 6:46pm On Apr 25, 2016 |
The Education Rights Campaign, Obafemi Awolowo University
Branch, condemns the proscription of Unilag students' union. It
will be recalled that students embarked on a protest to press
home their demands for better welfare (especially, with exams
approaching), but got the response of a collective
victimization from the management of the institution with an
autocratic emergency school closure. It is paradoxical, that an
institution that is supposed to teach students to solve societal
problem is unable to solve the welfare problem of a relatively
small university community but responds with repression and
intimidation of students, and that can only mean insensitivity
and irresponsibility. It is therefore necessary for us to clarify
ourselves on this crisis against the blackmail and the
misrepresentation of the scenario by the University Authority,
so as to portray students as the cause of the crisis and to
paint them and the union as miscreants to the public. From
the response of the management through the Registrar of the
University, it was presented that the students turned a deaf ear
to the call towards resolving the crisis before it escalated; but
this assertion of the management is untrue as the Students'
Union had embarked on series of steps of decent
communication before resorting to protests. It was this
breakdown of discussions that forced students to embark on
the peaceful protest. Meanwhile, it is pathetic that students
have to agitate before the management can actually take up
its responsibilities of providing conducive learning environment
and better living conditions.
Some months ago, the students also had to embark on a
protest on a case of bedbugs which also led to the closure of
the institution. Also recently, premedical students have had to
sue the management over the attempts to exploit them and
forfeit their careers. All these issues resulted to protests on
the same campus, due to the hardheartedness of the
management. Upon this, it is obvious that the management's
aim to criminalize the protest of the students is the motive for
presenting it as the reason for the proscription of the Students'
Union. On this note, we wish to condemn the report of the
investigative panel on the protest of the students and the
recommendations of the committee of Provost and Deans
constituted by the management on this matter. This action
instituted by the management is absolutely undemocratic. The
root cause of the protest was premised upon the fact that the
management was unconcerned to the students plights. As a
result the management cannot stand to be innocent in the
investigation of this matter. In a situation where this holds,
nothing democratic should be expected, more importantly any
resolution or recommendation in this despotic committee will
be centered to clamp down on the students and to impede on
the students' democratic rights.
Noteworthy is the fact that the Students' Union at some point
was placed under undemocratic proscription by the
management for nothing less than a decade before it was
later restored after consistent agitation of the students. Ever
since the restoration, the management of the Unilag has been
exploring different ways to re-place the union under another
proscription as a result of the actions of the students to
always challenge the highhandedness of the authorities which
obviously does serve as a threat to the genuine interest of the
students. The attempt has always been modified with different
ways of influencing the elections of the students' union in the
past, to ensure pliable union leaders. The union till this recent
proscription, is yet to be totally independent of the forces of
the university management.
Thus, we call for the democratization of the decision making
organ of the institution comprising all the stakeholders in the
university community including all academic and non-
academic staff union and the democratic student
representatives. Albeit all this, we advise the management that
the incessant closure of the institution cannot serve as a
panacea to the students' unrest, in as much the social cum
material conditions which necessitate the protest remain
unsolved by the management and to also desist from
blackmailing the students in order to cover up its impunity. We
demand that management should accede to the demands of
the students if truly it is sincere in maintaining a stable
academic calendar and improving the welfare condition of the
students. Of course, we condemn vehemently the
conditionalities set up by the management for the re-opening
of the institution stating that the students should sign an
undertaking form while the parents and guardians must also
sign indemnity form. According to the management, this is to
ensure that the students will be of good behaviour and always
abide by the rules and regulation of the institution. We in the
ERC maintain the stance the students have always been of
good behaviour, but wherever it seems that the students
violate the rules and regulations, it is the management that is
always responsibly for the act, by impeding on the
fundamental rights of the students and subjecting the
students to grievous hardship which threatens the welfare and
security of the students. Also, the acceptance of this condition
by the students, the parents and guardians give students the
blame of the unrest and further blackmail the struggle.
We hereby advise the students also that upon resumption,
frantic efforts should be made to defy (in practice and
principle) the order of proscription of the students' union
towards the assertion of the independence of the Students'
Union. Series of organized campaign must be embarked upon
by the Students' Union, to link the struggle to the proper
funding of the university by the government, financial
accountability and transparency of the university funds, the
democratization of the decision making organ of the university
including genuine students' representatives amongst others.
This is the only practical way to avoid further clamp down on
the students which may definitely manifest in form of the
expulsion or suspension of the students leaders and other
forms of victimization.
.
Signed:
Adabale Olamide (Coordinator)
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Re: OAU Press Condemn The Proscription Of ULSU by Khd95(m): 6:53pm On Apr 25, 2016 |
But unilag students dey always protest when exams dey approach Juz asking tho |
Re: OAU Press Condemn The Proscription Of ULSU by calculator123(m): 4:49pm On Apr 27, 2016 |
why is nobody talking about the indemnity form?. |
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