UNIMAID: HAVE WE REALLY RESUMED?

By Emmanuel Onyekwere

One of the major reasons people are corrupt is not because they were not taught morals but because those teaching the morals end up leading immoral life. In the same vein, we have bad administrators in many spheres of life simply because the "king makers" are not in themselves practitioners of what they impart in those whose future is left at the mercy of their good or bad formation. Just like the African adage "while the mother goat eats poison, the kid watches and would one day have a taste of it", educational system is busy forcing bad waters down the digestive tracts of young scholars and nothing proactive I been done about it.

I have taken exception to what is happening in the university of Maiduguri, what I would call administrative flaws. It is very worrisome to consider how this citadel of learning is being ran like a local village restaurant where you go and see a regular post 'food is ready', dare make a request and disappointingly you will be told 'oga, it's remaining small'. The long and short of it is that food isn't ready!. University of Maiduguri on the 3rd of October announced that is has officially resumed for the 2017/2018 academic session but from every indication this is a mere announcement which does not in anyway depict the true picture of events within the University community.

It might interest you to know that nine days after resumption and with the announcement that the school's calendar must be strictly adhered to, the school environment was still the way it was throughout the four months long break. All the gates are still locked save two gates which are strictly staff entrance routes through which commercial vehicles are not allowed, if you must pass through this gate as a student (if you don't own a car) you  must use your 'legediz Benz' (trekking) through a way long distance to wherever you're going within the campus. All the hostels are still locked, in fact this is the most frustrating part of it, many students who had travelled long distances on getting to the hostel gates were locked out 'the hostels are not yet open' ( to me this is a way of saying that the school hasn't resumed). Where would these poor go to? Mind you the school has released accommodation list, by implication students have been allocated rooms in the hostels they couldn't gain access into.

The one I shouldn't have addressed but for the funny part of it is admission, according to the 'strictly to be followed' calendar, new students were to start their registration  today 9th October, with November 6th as deadline, you know what? The new students don't even know themselves yet and they already have a deadline for registration. Funny.

From every indication the university management is not yet prepared for resumption, so why the rush? it looks as if the four months break isn't long enough, oh there was strike action inbetween probably that was why they didn't prepare for the resumption; I feel their pain, it took them by surprise. I think this is not what you expect but a spade must be called a spade lest it turns a plank and unable to burrow even the softest of soils.