UPDATE ON THE STRUGGLE AS AT Thursday, JULY 17th,2014. GREATEST IFE! ARTICULATE IFE !! Amid ups and downs which the Union has been engaged with on issues of late payment/ registration, investigation panel and death of our legal counsel,Barr. Bamidele Aturu among other issues, we deem it correct to oblige Great Ife students with the state of matters as far as our struggle is concerned. ON LATE PAYMENT/ REGISTRATION: Vis a vis the July 16th set commencement of late registration, the Union maintains its stance on DONT PAY. The deadline as the case may be remains a tactic by the management to ensure that students continue to pay the fees but having made a holisitic analysis of the matter, we established that late registration cannot commence when the University at the moment is not running any calender. This presupposes that the school resumes and the University Senate sits on a new calendar which time for late registration will be part of. Late registration does not commence traditionally until after Matriculation.E ven, some lecturers and some other key members of senate alluded to this points espounged above by the Union. We therefore maintain our stance on DONT PAY. ON INVESTIGATION PANEL SET BY THE UNIVERSITY SENATE: Yesterday, 16th July,2014, the members of the Central Executive Council of the Students Union appeared in turns before an Investigation Panel set by the University management to interact with University Stakeholders on the recent student disturbances in the varsity. The Panel which was made up of Profs and Drs from College of Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Arts and Sciences had quizzed staff Unions before now with a view to properly assess the recent struggles by the students and come up with enduring solutions on the matter. An harmonization of reports of interaction with all the CEC members and the panelists indicates the following as the TERMS OF REFERENCE of the panel: - to source for facts of events from the beginning of the struggle to recent period and truth of information fed to the Senate and the public by both parties -How and Why all that had happened was so. The role of each officer of the CEC in the struggle. - To draw up lessons for the management from the struggle and - To construct a road map for the future especially when this matter or other related issues arise for the continuous maintenance of peace and order in the University. The CEC members appearing before the panel individually at intervals gave their part of the story and the inevitability of our actions. We embarked on a mission to save public education in Nigeria. It was established that a Senate Relief Committee has been set up to help indigent students. Based on earlier demands from the Union during earlier negotiations, the Committee has now agreed to considering students with at least a GP of 2.0 for reliefs such as scholarship, loans, work-study jobs, etc. This means that the brilliance is no more a criteria for poor students being catered for. In addition, it was also revealed that the Committee has also considered an entrenchment of instalmental or two semester payment of fees to ease those who cannot pay at once. Futher recommendations were however made to the Panel some of which are: -involvement of the Students Union in the activities and runnings of the Relief Committee for the purpose of democratic and interactive administration of the commitee. -bridging the ever widening communication gap between the studentry and the management. Other students,some members of the SRC and the SRC leadership will be having their panel today 17th and 18th July,2014. ON INTERVENTION FROM ASUU,OAU BRANCH: Tuesday, 15th July, a congress of ASUU,OAU branch resolved to further intervene and see to a situation in which both students and management find a common ground on this increment in fees. The ASUU congress directed its Student-Labour Committee to interface on behalf of ASUU with both parties. This intervention is in furtherance of interventions from third parties to both Students and management and an expected intervention from the Minister of Education,Ibrah im Shekarau. A failure of the minister to intervene will mean an operation occupy ministry of education. The interface has begun and progress is being made. ON THE DEATH OF ONE OF OUR LEGAL COUNSEL, BARR. BAMIDELE ATURU: We continue in our sober reflections on the death of our legal counsel as the Union last weekend and on Sunday, 13th July paid condolence visit to his friends and family at his residence @ Cement area,Agege,Lago s and submitted a Tribute letter also. Burial arrangements for the legal icon goes thus: + 22nd July - Solidarity day and night @ the Secondary School opposite his residence @ Agege Lagos. + 23rd July - Christian Wake keep @ the Secondary School opposite his residence @ Agege,Lagos. + 24th July - Laying to rest at Atan Cemetry. We regret the exit of the legal icon a news of which co- incide with our invitation to appear before panel and we pray his soul to rest in perfect peace.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:43:48 +0000
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