I am saddened and heart broken seeing some faces and names that made up this list.
This doesn't speak good of my Alma mata.
I see and hear some people speak bad about the action taken by the University Management action to expel these jinx for their nitwitted behaviors and all sorts of evil act.
It is indeed a sad commentary, the moral decadence that has assailed the University, its host community and the society at large.
It may interest you to know that no University on the planet earth will allow its Name to be dragged in the mud like that without taking action against it.
Don't forget, degrees are awarded based on Character and learning. Read your certificate again, it is well spelled out therein.
I have known some of these aforementioned victims back then in school. On a normal ground, one will say they were friendly and well known because of their social activities in the school and it will be hard to have said they were involved in such activities. This shows that only God knows the heart of men.
My advice to the Nigerian Universities commission NUC, and other related institutional bodies responsible for admitting students into colleges and training them is that; they should channel their energy towards building students rehabilitation centres where such students will be kept, rather than sending them back home to their parents and the society.
Some of these students found themselves in this mess as they joined school and were exposed to bad companies and all sort of social vices that they became vulnerable to. On their own, they wouldn't have loved to involve themselves in such an unacceptable behavior.
Yes, sending them away is to set the ball rolling as regards to keeping and enforcing the university rules and regulations, but the implications to the students is that, they may lose focus as a result of that decision by the school. They will keep having a plethora of bad options occupying the front rows of the minds.
However, I advise that they should be kept in rehabilitation centres where they will be taken care of by experts, specialists or counselors who will ensure they do their best to revive these students and have them taken back to school or sending them back to their parents and charging them for restoring their child. This could even be a source of revenue for the school.
Recently, Babcock University sent a 300L female accounting student out of the university for her involvement in sexual act and videoing it which went viral on social media platforms.
Rightly, the lady is an adult, she has her right to do such, no law in Nigerian university has forbidden sex, no, but morally it forbids open sex or involvement in any sexual act and videoing it, its more of pornography. That was why the school expelled her despite the fact that she had sex in a hospital when she visited her sick Boyfriend who invited her to the hospital, and not the school hostel.
In February this year, that same boyfriend of hers was expelled from the same school for involvement in an unwanted activity and student misconduct.
Had it been the school has a rehabilitation house and have kept the boyfriend there, he could have been better of now and not dragging the girl into this mess again that cost all of them their education.
Sending students away from school is not the best. Nigerian universities should think of building rehabilitation centres to help rehabilitate affected students instead.
I pray that the affected students will use this period as a moment of sober reflection and see the need to start up again, as it is not yet late and will never be late as long as there is life.
Richard Nick Ben
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