The Vice Chancellor, Professor Chiagozie Cyril Asiabaka in a recent broadcast on AIT appeared to have said nothing will stop the December 9th exam from holding even if he has to bring on the army he would.
Now this is unfair to all the FUTO students. We are not saying we do not want to write our exams but all we request is time, atleast two weeks.

Futoites are the most fearful students in this Nation. A school where the SUG is bottled and toyed with fear in the blood stream of every student. The problem isn't that thesw students are just gutless or negligent, the problem lies within that so called signature and stamp imprinted on a paper called 'Form 6'. The From 6 is a form signed by all students during their clearance into the school as a fresher. It prevents any student from suing the school but agreeing to do all they've been ordered to do. This form has made the students of this great Citadel of learning to remain silent when they're being tormented and this has lasted for several years. Even the writer has opted to remain Anonymous to avoid any scare.


We are not seeking to undo this, No! All we seek is our right as students. If we can go to school in a week and write our exams the following week then our 5yrs in school is a total waste..
As students we did not request for this strike, we have prayed for it to be called off and that is still our prayers but calling us to come write our exams with just a week notice is an outright wickedness. Most of the students cannot remember what they were taught after staying home for over 6months. Most parents are not ready to risk the lives of their wards who leave afar off this festive period. The managements who took the decision are inconsiderate. This is the period where the roads are busy as lots of people are travelling back to their hometown for xmas and this is the period when tolls of uncertainties occur on the bad Lagos-Ondo-Benin-Onitsha road.

Did they consider the lecturers who are adamant not to return to classes after the threats of the sack? These are lecturers who haven't received their salaries in months and as it is in FUTO, any lecturer who marks an exam script when they are not happy might do that without their whole heart and could mark students down.

We must commend the SUG President and his comrades who are fighting so hard to ensure this exam is shifted but here's an open petition that we are sending to the National Association Of Nigerian Students. We do not seek to disobey the school management but what we seek is consideration. We are the students, the future of tomorrow. The FG/ASUU saga has already taken us aback now we request for atleast two weeks to prepare for the Rain Semester exams and it is important that our lecturers take about a week to refresh our memories of all they taught us in the class before the exams. Imagine a final year student who hopes to make good amends in this exam now facing uncertainties. We cannot afford to see mass failures. But at the rate the FUTO Senate is taking this, what we forsee is mass failures as students are not prepared for the exams.


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http://www.futogists.com/2013/12/futo-students-say-no-to-december-9th.html

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