OPEN LETTER TO THE STUDENT UNION GOVERNMENT (SUG)

The open letter below was found pasted on the walls of the Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku written by an Anonymous.

OPEN LETTER TO THE STUDENT UNION GOVERNMENT (SUG)

We are sorry to say that Delta State Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku does not have a union from the SUG executive level, the legislatures the school and various departmental executives.

How can it be said that with a school of over 20,000 population have started midterm test without text books to read in preparation for this test and the union is not sensitive to this, at least to deliberate on behalf of the student with the management to look for a possible solution to this problem, as exams is fast approaching.

Secondly students are being deprived from writing test, attending lectures and soon students will be deprived from even entering the school because of school fees as if we are primary school children, considering the current economic situation in the country, most of our parents who are being owed up to six months salaries have not being paid, our girls are now being pushed into prostitution and our boys into rubbery, with all this things in mind our union has done practically nothing on this issue, also considering the fact that the school fees was even increased from the usual amount and since the resumption of school the price of the school fees has being undulating like the price of fuel (not stable) and just one week after this issue was resolved a drastic action was taken against the student. Yet the union is still mute about the issue.

The most painful aspect of this whole issue is not even the increment but the additional N10,000 that is being proposed for late payment of school fees. The question now is that should the student now drop out of school because our parents have not been paid their salaries due to the current economic situation? Indeed our students union are really weaklings.

Also a memo was passed demanding that 2015/2016 graduating students to pay an additional fee of N10,000 for late submission of files and those who are in ND2 and HND2 respectively now are being stopped from submitting their files. The question now is the ND2 and HND2 are they 2015 / 2016 graduating students? Why are they being stopped from submitting their files? What is our union doing about this? IS A SHAME.

Another bitter pill that is so hard to swallow is the issue of JAMB REGULARIZATION, students regularize  JAMB at N5,500 while students who paid lately from march were told their payment were invalid as jamb has stopped school from registering the said payment for student, the new payment for the said fee is being pegged at N10,000 including extra N2,500 as processing charges, another question that comes to mind is what happens to the first N5,500 that was paid, no one is saying anything about it not even our REPRESENTATIVES the so called SUG.

In conclusion our union are more concerned on issues concerning MONEY than issues concerning students Their greatest challenge is fear, fear of losing their result on a fight for a just cause, their ambition is to put Naira in their pocket, they sit to apportion projects that will benefit them and not the students, those who are representing us are supposed to be accountable to the people because the people’s power is greater than those in power but today the reverse is the case, is not as if we are fighting the union but we have spoken secretly and no one seems to want to take the bull by the horn, now is time to speak out to the public.