WHAT IF NO JAJA?

The lackadaisical attitudes of health personnel in jaja clinic, University of Ibadan by now ought to have been thoroughly checked. Many among us have one or two story to share about Jaja clinic but the present situation in Jaja can be linked directly or indirectly to the National problem generally and the fear among everyone that" ah! may he or she not die on my hand. I cant write statement o!"

In 2010, a friend died in jaja with similar experience. He slumpped on the field but died either while on d way to jaja or in jaja, no one can say succinctly. Another astmatic patient too died in 2007 in similar fashion. A close friend of mine was almost becoming a victim in 2009 when we went to jaja for complains and immediately they started their act of where is your jaja card, what is your jaja number. Some drugs are not free, I immediately drove him out of the university to a private clinic off campus for better treatment. And at the end, a life was saved.

Without jaja, how can we save ourselves? How can we put condition in our hostels to an appreciable conducive condition even if the management has neglected us. My answer is that as students living in the hostels, we are all members of the Executive arm and that of the students union too even if not actively part of them.

While in UI as a student and chairman of Tedder Hall, myself along other executive members and all tedderites ensured we lived independently without the hall management and the university management. We went all out sourcing funds from our alumnus to make condition of our hostels better for us. We bought generating sets to pump water and another for entertainment. We drilled borhole to ensure suffiient water supplies and we protect our well water and ensure easy access to it in difficult times. We liaised with the management on grey areas in the hall thereby reaching a common ground to avert unplanned difficult situations. We got a bus for the Hall for official use and hire in order to improve the igr within tbe hall and many more but in all our doings, no one was perfect. God that gave life takes it whenever he pleases but the condition surrounding the lost of lives are just accidental.

I also want to state that when students make complains the management are supposed to act fast to curtail the unexpected.

Like some weeks ago, I wrote about the caging of tedderites in tedder hall and the need to remove the cage gates in order for proper and free movement according to the lay down design of the hostel and till now nothing has been done to that effect.

For many years to now, students leaders have been busy involving themselves in misplaced priority activities and we as alumnus have been pointing to these lapses with an equivalent abuses coming from within the university. The multiplier effect of bad leadership from department to faculty to hostels and the students union are the consequences of the very present death situation we are withnessing due to negligence as a result of frivolities and misplaced priorities of the students leaders even though uneasy lkes the head that wears the crown.

Let us think outside the boxes because I believe that without jaja we can save ourselves. A stitch in time saves nine.

May God give the family of the deceased, the fortitude to bear the loss.

Thank you.

God bless the University of Ibadan

God bless uites n UiSU

Akande Akin Sanyaolu

Alumnus.