Oyedeji Oludayo
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With sober reflections still ringing at the bottom of my heart for the government that was elected to the dividend of democracy but suddenly became a thorn and burden on the flesh and head of my statesmen. For them, I shed a bitter tears.
For the burden is heavy and deliverance is no where near. For them, I shed bitter tears.
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When a man is barraged with series of misfortune the broom in his hand can not scare a fly neither can it sweep the surface of his own room clean, it is in Yoruba culture to refer him to his local deity by recommending that one should follow up to worship his creator (eleda). When such person had done so, his land that has remained dead to plants would regain its fertility. Prior to this time, such person live a miserable life and unless he is fortunate to discover himself, all things he lay hands upon becomes ashes.
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Where is the broom of the governor of Osun state, whose eye has been too blinded by so many sycophants to realise he has brought the state into the jungle of perdition, Or has he met the Biblical Balaam, whose duty is to lay curse on people? No one would believe he has not been bewitched and inextricably enchanted.
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Consider and cry with intensity of feeling, when you remember the state of education in pre-Aregbesola administration. The sector was not loam but was not at that time a clay until the arrival of Aregbesola, whose strange policies disillusioned the whole system and turned it to ashes.
Like the story of elephant in 'erin karele o wa joba's' folk-tale, he flooded himself with day light sycophants whose weapon are blatant lies. The government did not only scatter the secondary school in the state but along the line galvanized trouble in the already peaceful academic process in secondary and primary schools.
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The governor’s self-willed approach to education has not but exposed his naivety in education sector. He has left no reasonable person in doubt as to his unfitness to judge the academic process, but owing to his self-centredness, he forced the weighty morsel down the throat of the people in the state. The ungifted hand syndrome, with which he calculated his errors, is still a surprise as he shrewdly backed his fruitless policies with public relations style of relief with the initiative of O-meal.
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Just when everyone thought it was all done, the hand touched the structure of the secondary schools and was applauded throughout the world until it was discovered to be an asymmetric project. He twisted and employed confusion in the process that many is yet to recover from the injuries inflicted.
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For its much vaunted stride, consider the adoption of the 'Tablet of knowledge' (Opon -Imo) and look no further for evidence that the hand is ungifted. The Opon Imo, as it was called did not live up to expectation until it was finally laid for burial.
The ungifted hand touched Osun State Polytechnic, Iree and the ego of the OSPOLites can testify to the filth that ensued. College of Education Ila Orangun lived with the same horrible tale. Who dare wait for ungifted hand?
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How will a hand that invested much in building classrooms but preferred settling politicians to paying teachers’ salaries be called a gifted one?
Surprisingly, the ungifted hand has attempted touching UNIOSUN, the institution that is still enjoying its tender glory, to sing the praise his political godfathers and loyal party men like they are heroes that are to be ever celebrated. It is indeed mean to place the futures of tomorrow’s leaders on political galleries for compensation when most of the campuses have seriously been combating with one issue or the other without any reasonable gestures from the so-called peoples Governor.
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For the sake of the oppressed, the deprived, the less privileged and the less-vocals, the time is ripe for the state government to stumble at reality and wake up from its self-inflicted hallucination it called policy that had almost assassinated the smooth-running of Education in the state.
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To this end, the governor should face his thorough business of dealing with the serious economic quagmire into which he has carelessly plunged the state instead of dangling into the affairs of UNIOSUN, whose nomenclature have become a spirit engraved in the hearts of the students of the institution. No father celebrates the change of name of the son he could barely feed for a day when the entire family is confronted by a plague. If Mr. Gov failed to realise this through the 'erin karele owa joba' set of configuration he is surrounded with, people like us should tell him because it is not far from becoming too late. Mr. Governor, be healed from your senility and receive the power to boost Osun economy not mortgaging its future for political weight (in Mountain of fire style)
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