by Adesina David

 

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”  – Abraham Lincoln.

This is just a piece of my mind to those at the helm of affairs in this country. As much as I remain a loyalist to the leadership and authority of this nation, and as much as I desist from blaspheming, or speaking wrong about what they have been doing, I feel it is of utmost importance that I speak in this regard, so I won’t be found guilty of keeping my thoughts to myself at the end.

Why in the name of God would you declare that students should not be allowed to go home to their parents’ houses during this period of elections? Like it or not, there will always be some miscreants who have been embedded with the lifestyle of evil and chaos, and they would love to perpetrate their evils in students environment where they are likely to see like minds. God forbid that someone like that should come visiting in my school, and I’m caught in the midst of the chaos that follows. What would be my fate?

Many other students like me are scared of this and majority of them are already packing their bags.

The only fear we have is this: our lecturers have a certain tendency to be very rash in their decision making process on matters like this. And it’s only a matter of time before they start taking attendances due to the scanty number of attendant students in the classrooms.

Let me also identify another important point for you to consider in this predicament of ours: it is no news that majority of students in federal universities are involved in the INEC adhoc recruitment with most of them waiting eagerly for the elections to start, so they can get over with the exercise and collect their stipends. The ones who didn’t sign up to be part of the staff have mainly registered to vote in their respective localities, and this “no-break” is not acceptable in any way towards the realization of any of these aforementioned plans.

This call is going out to whoever is involved: let us go home!

According to what Abraham Lincoln said in the quote I put up at the beginning of this article, your limiting our freedom is directly and proportionately tilting to the end that you yourselves are people not worthy of the same freedom.

I will not fail as I conclude, to reiterate this point clearly with this quote from Henry Ford which goes thus: “The real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” If we want to have history repeat itself like as in the past, then we would have at the end failed the ultimate test of wisdom.

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Adesina David tweets from @iamadesina

 

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