The Cry of The Masses

To the Federal Government of Nigeria, to all our state Governors, Our Senate, Reps and to all it may concerned. I am writing this piece because I can’t stand it anymore, I can’t stand the burden on the poor, the cheating and how the less privilege are being deprived of their rights.

I have written several articles on this but not from this perspective. in this my article I want to go deep into what is happening in our higher institutions.

As we all believe and with the mentality we breed in this country that the foundation and future of this country is Education.You have made us believe that Education is the vehicle for every development, but why are you burdening people? I have noticed that the poor hardly go to higher institutions these days especially during this present administration. You know why? Because with the economy of this country it is very difficult for the poor to afford the school fees, some of these people hardly eat a day with the current economy situation of the beloved country.

The poor families chose Federal Government owned universities over State and Private Owned Universities because of the cheap fee they are known for and with the hope of being at ease to pay for their wards’ school fees and other petty fees, but it is so saddening that these federal government own institutions are not different from those state universities, not any more. The school fees are increasing daily and the people are burdened, imagine Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife which is a Federal government owned institution paying over Seventy Thousand naira (70, 000) per session and Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko which is a state university paying something around forty thousand naira only (40, 000) per session. And Federal University of Technology Akure, another federal government university paying fifty thousand naira (50, 000) for acceptance fee not even school fee and they are expected to pay within two weeks, and Osun State University a state university paying forty thousand naira (40, 000) as acceptance fee. I hope you could tell the difference.

These federal universities are hoped to be the refugee for the poor, but it has unfortunately become a no going area for the less privilege. Must it be so? Is that how it should be? Is that how it was? Is that how it has been over the years, over the past administration?

But what can the management of those schools do when the federal government has asked them to generate income on their own? What other source of income do they have? Should they turn classrooms to shopping mall? Or are they expected to turn school environment to farmland? Tell me, what other source of income do they have other than school fees and acceptance fees and accommodation fee, for those institutions that have? Our people are lamenting, people are suffering, people are crying, people are burdened. Or maybe the poor shouldn’t go to universities anymore? Are higher institutions now meant for only the rich? You want the less privilege to be serving your children? APC government is a burden to the people; I never see any good they have done for the less privilege. Oh! You think with Npower you have done something? Well, as for me, sorry to disappoint you, you have done nothing, I am even so highly disappointed in people praising the federal government over the silly Npower program, well I guess they are satisfied with the way they are now, thirty thousand naira for two years and then it stops. Actually I’m not talking about that now; I’ve said it before and not going to repeat it here but what I’m trying to say is that we shouldn’t leave what should be done, the priority, the future of this country, the future of our people and praise them over what they have done, or rather what they have partly do.

I don’t know if it’s because this administration has lesser or no value for education, or because they want the higher institutions to be for the rich kids only. I have said it and I will keep saying it, and will keep quoting the saying of Yoruba that say ‘Omo ti a ko to ni yio gbe ile ti a ko ta’ that is literally translate in English as ‘The Child we fail to raise and build well will eventually sell the house we dedicate our lives to build’.

You keep constructing roads and building houses while the destinies of our people are on the line, you fail to pay attention to the poor and you want to sleep in peace? You want to travel on the road you construct in peace? It can never be so! You know why? Because you have failed to give our people the legacy they deserves, and then they become thieves and armed robbers, they become kidnapper because they don’t have the resources to build their future when they wanted. I write this for Federal Government, the state government, the APC administration and all other people that this concerns to hear the cry of our people, to know of the pains and challenges we are passing through. Well, if you keep silent and do nothing saying we will get used to it, well, I am sure God is alive and the destiny of these people you are destroying will definitely ask you.

I have said my own; it is left for the people, the media to publish this for the Federal Government, the APC leaders and other people it is concerned to hear my voice. Just show you care for the future of our people by broadcasting this piece, I look and rely on you to let people see this, save our people. Thanks and God Bless.