GREAT IFE STUDENTS’ UNION

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA OVER THE STATE OF OUR COUNTRY

The Students’ Union of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, hereby uses this medium to register our dissatisfaction over the ridiculous state of our nation which has been characterized by teeming youth unemployment, financial misappropriation, snail-like political progress, staggering economy, and massive looting of our commonwealth by the ruling class. The current situation of our country can be aptly likened to a clueless and terribly damaged one with no specific direction. It is very disheartening that a country blessed with viable human resources as well as boundless natural resources cannot boldly boast of a reasonable level of youth employment, 21st Century education system, world-class security network, present-day social amenities among other indices of economic development.

It is unfortunate that the Buhari-led Federal Government administration has displayed a total disregard for educational needs of Nigerian children and youth by allocating less than 7% of the total budgetary allocation presented to the National Assembly contrary to 26% budgetary benchmark recommended by UNESCO. With this ridiculous budget allocated to the education sector, it is apparent that students will continue to receive classes under terrible and animalistic learning conditions; there will be further infrastructural decadence, unstable academic calendars (as paucity of fund will necessarily spur industrial actions from ASUU, ASUP and other stakeholders that are committed to righting the wrongs of the FG), etc.

However, our nation is not only bedeviled by the impecunious amount of money allocated to the, arguably, most important sector of the economy. Another great cause for worry is the inactiveness and cluelessness of the Federal Government of Nigeria in tackling the menace of insecurity in the country which has inadvertently led to loss of countless lives, destruction of property and subsequent displacement of millions of Nigerians. The Fulani herdsmen’s killings and wanton destruction of farms of hardworking Nigerians (mostly Southerners) are on the increase without any effective measure being put in place by the Federal Government in curbing their excesses. We find this very disheartening and painful. This situation has further compounded the level of havoc wreaked on millions of Nigerians by the Boko Haram sect.

Also, Great Ife Students’ Union condemns the tactical killing of the #NotTooYoungToRunBill by the National Assembly after the historic bill had scaled through the huddles of first and second readings. No excuse is logical or sufficient enough to justify the obnoxious and parochial decision of the National Assembly for preventing the bill from becoming a law. It is a well-orchestrated attempt by the ruling class to exclude the youths from participating actively in the governance of the country. By removing the age barrier which has inhibited countless industrious and purpose-driven Nigerian youths from standing the chance of being elected into political offices, the bill (if passed to law) would have encouraged fresh intellectual initiatives, coordination, and clearheaded policy formulation mechanism that will herald massive development in the country.

Finally, we are using this platform to demand the presidency to make public the health condition of President Muhammadu Buhari following his rather protracted sojourn in the United Kingdom for a couple of months now. It is impossible for some individuals who do not sum up to 2% of the total population of the country to keep fooling us by perpetuating the masses in the dark as regards the facts surrounding the health of Mr. President. As promised by the APC that they would be open and accountable in all their dealings, we challenge them to tell Nigerians the truth about the actual health condition of Mr. President.

OUR DEMANDS

1. We demand that the 2017 budget be reconsidered for review in order to accommodate disbursement of additional fund to the Education Sector so as to cater for educational demands of Nigerians and then tackle issues of infrastructure deficit, understaffing, etc. Failure to attend to this national cry shall attract nationwide media campaign against the Federal Government of Nigeria for their insensitivity to the plight of Nigerian students across all levels

2. We demand the Federal Government to be more proactive in combating insecurity in Nigeria

3. We demand the federal Government of Nigeria to immediately look into the rehabilitation of Ibadan-Ife road which has been a death trap to travelers for more than a decade

4. We demand the Federal Government of Nigeria to take a serious measure towards curbing the incessant attacks on farmers by Fulani herdsmen

5. We demand the Presidency to make public the health condition of President Muhammadu Buhari

6. We demand the Federal Government as well as local and state governments owing workers to start paying up as nonpayment of workers’ salaries has greatly exacerbated the living condition of Nigerian students across all campuses

7. We demand the Minister of Education to facilitate and implement policies that will bring about exponential improvement in the sector.

Signed:
Okediji Simon (ZUMA)
Public Relations Officer, Great Ife Students’ Union

Boluwajaiye Adeoluwa (FYNESTBOI)
Secretary General, Great Ife Students’ Union

Oyekan Ibukun Edward (DR IBK)
President, Great Ife Students’ Union

*Sir, you promised to make $1 = N1, stabilise world crude price and defeat boko haram*

Buhari :- I don't recall

Seems like some people are finally waking up. Anyways add to your demands that the Federal Government reconstruct that useless Onitsha Enugu express before December when I come home.

Open letter to who? When you have no president and osinbajo is caged?

Demand for the release of your president first.

Dem tell you say bubu dey read letters

vanbonattel:
Open letter to who? When you have no president and osinbajo is caged?

Demand for the release of your president first.

It is part of the demand.

mormonslayer:
Seems like some people are finally waking up. Anyways add to your demands that the Federal Government reconstruct that useless Onitsha Enugu express before December when I come home.

But your brothers here on Nairaland claimed that GEJ fixed that particular road.

You all planted the tree of deceit, you must now reap the fruit of disappointment.

Afonja students from Ewedu republic

Truckload of bullshit, if anything this letter shld come from NANS, these kids with less than 2.0 cgpa shld focus on their studies than writing trash marred with sooo many errors

great job.....

jaychubi:
Afonja students from Ewedu republic

Read the letter, read your post, then sit in one corner and think about your life.

the students who wrote this poo must be the products of the degrading educational system but their common sense should av informed them that we have no FG currently...

Abi they just want to be relevant?

Brown roof ppl. Na una be dey shout sia baba bcz you think say fulanis cannot compete with your law professor..

Now that they have caged your law professor, you r writing rubbish.

Apc n buhari will rule Nigeria for a dacade n nothing will change that.. Wether buhari die or alive. He must finish dealing with us

OkoYibo:


But your brothers here on Nairaland claimed that GEJ fixed that particular road.

on newspaper o.... lol

Great Ife Students' Union had influenced national policies in the past and can still do it again. If you don't know, the Ibadan-Ife expressway was dualized due to agitation of ever-conscious Great Ife Students. However, I doubt if the current corps of leadership the union is parading can take that bold step. All the same, the open letter is a welcome development.

Aluta against all oppression

Yhemit:


on newspaper o.... lol

Here on Nairaland, they were shouting themselves hoarse that it had been fixed buy GEJ whereas their people were dying in accidents on that road.

OkoYibo:


Read the letter, read your post, then sit in one corner and think about your life.

D letter is an eyesore written by students on probation it clearly shows that d level of education is at abysmal level today. Even students from good secondary schools will write a more constructive n engaging letter.

jaychubi:


D letter is an eyesore written by students on probation

You think Great Ife is like your backwater villages where mental retardation is a prerequisite for leadership?

For every one useful former student leader produced by your higher institutions, I'll mention 3 by Great Ife alone.

Same old demands Nigerians have been asking for in the last two decades

But am certain and sure they won't be yielding to this demands in the next 10years. Except, rapture will truly happen!

Great Ife!

When Ife was still Ife. They shook even military governments.

Now, no one takes this seriously again.

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NCANpatroller:
Fynestboi u re a mod
I'm going to insult you and break NL rules.
Stop disgracing the Alma mater.
Open letter crap stays in daily newspaper. If the sug is serious.
You come here to ask for vote on stupid competition. Scholarship u no gree win. Graduation u no gree graduate!
Stop moving nonsense about oau to fp.
Making it an object of ridicule.
On what authority. Do demand from FG?
Ur microcosm of importance of demanding from VCs made u important shey? Where were you when we had important and articulate sug leaders? Not this sham of sug!

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It is SU not SUG

Fynestboi:
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It is SU not SUG

I'm sure u re articulate with the rubbish you posted. Grow up son.
There is a Lotta challenges outside the cocoon called university

They must know we're here syndrome.



PLS CHECK MY SIGNATURE. THANKS FOR DOING SO

i commend this, i have bein expectin same from every youth to demand respect of our commonwealth, thumbs up tho. Meanwhile those their father are milkin this country wil nt suport this one.

Fynestboi:


It is part of the demand.

He who comes with equity must come with clean hands


What happened with your bus scandal ?

May be with this, the youths in this country can change the doom,let each school's student union do something like this, post it every where not just on nairaland but even on daily papers. Lets see how far it will go but i remember some schools have no student government body but just Union. If youths can team together and channel their strength in the right direction the country could be a honey dam for all to lick.

when will someone write an open letter to our judiciary that sentenced a poor man for stealing #3425 and keep on adjourning the case of huge embezzlement... also... when are we going to see a unique write up to our legislative members... who keep on milking on tax payers money and do nothing but show of shame... when will someone write a golden nugget to correct malicious behaviour of our Governors who keep on embezzling money and failed to pay salaries despite series of tranche bail out fund which in anyway doesn't stop the monthly federal government allocation plus IGR.. let do something.

This is an issue I been waiting for long...

Failure for Federal Government to comply of these narrative opinion.... Let all our our campuses embark on serious conflict that will bring dispature to this so call nation... Then Biafra's war will easily commenced.

Then mak una public youths grow up to your support & scatter, scatter everything....

Bukola Saraki & others house of representative should suffer for this pain & suffering that Nigerian is going through