*Says She Was Suspended For Protesting Against School Fees Hike
*Says The Good News Is That Her Certificate Was Released While Professor Oba Is Still Alive
*Says Solution To Nigeria’s Problem Is Socialist Revolution
*Vows To Renew Her Commitment To This Cause
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Rasheedat Adeshina, one of the new wigs called to the Bar recently has recounted how she, in 1999, dragged to court the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Shuaib Abdulraheem Oba, and the University of Ilorin, UNILORIN, to compel them to let her sit for her examinations and later to release her results.
Explaining what caused the conflict between her and her Vice-Chancellor, she said, “Oba, as an Ilorin indigene mobilized lecturers and students who were also Ilorin indigenes against everybody and everything else. With the Emir and Government on his side, he was deeply pained and terribly disappointed that I did not only decline to be a tool in his hands but ended up being the leader of one of the most powerful student oppositions. He vowed that over his dead body would I graduate from the campus. On several occasions, he vowed to ensure that he ruined my life and make sure that I everlastingly regret my stand.”
According to her, what broke the camel’s back was the protest she and other students staged over the hike of school fees. That it was then that legal battle started between her and the school.
She said her suit succeeded at the Federal High Court and when the school refused to obey the order, she initiated contempt proceedings before she was allowed to sit for exams. That when they refused to release her results, she went back to the Federal High Court in 2004.
“Then commenced the long and difficult legal battles that ran for almost It started in 1998 when there was an astronomical increase in the school fees. Having banned the local union, I and other comrades along with the NANS Zone D massively mobilized students against this hated fee hike.
“Our peaceful protest was brutally crushed by both the internal security of the university, as well as the police. Many students were arrested, including the NANS Zone D representative who came in Ladoke Akintola’s (LAUTECH) Students Union bus. Even the bus was detained and taken to the police headquarters in Ilorin. The arrested students and the NANS Zone D representative; comprising students from LAUTECH and OAU were all detained and imprisoned at the Oke Kura Maximum Security Prison in Ilorin for more than 30days.
“I only narrowly escaped, then surprised to read in almost all the then-popular newspapers that I have been declared wanted. I could only imagine the trauma this had on my parents. I immediately went underground. As is always the case, suspension from school immediately followed.
“I challenged this unjust suspension at the Federal High Court in Ilorin and I won, but the university authorities in their characteristic manner refused to abide by the court order. I had to go back to court to get a committal order (form 48 and 49) before I could be allowed to sit for exams. It was such a very difficult period; you would have exam the following day and won’t be sure you would be allowed. Whenever I had an exam, I would go into the exam hall with the court order. My final year examination in the year 2000 started and ended in this manner. I would take out the court order and asked the person to sign that he/she was disobeying the court order.
“The Administration refused to release my result and consequently, my certificate. I returned to Federal High Court in 2004 to challenge this injustice and won in 2005. The University Administration appealed to the Court Of Appeal. At the Court of Appeal, once again I won in 2006. The management proceeded to Supreme Court to further appeal.” Adeshina said
She said she doesn’t have regret over her experience. That throughout the long and tortuous year, she remain solidly committed to the cause.
“The battle has only successfully strengthened my resolve to join all the revolutionaries to overthrow this monstrous Capitalist System and build in its place, a more humane society where human beings can freely develop their full potentials unhindered.” she said
She expressed belief that the solution to problems in Nigeria is socialist revolution and her future plan is to renew her dedication and commitment to this cause.
“The cheapest and most basic of Nigeria’s problems can no longer be solved by patching here and mending there. It is only through a Socialist Revolution that genuine emancipation of the working class and downtrodden can genuinely be won.
“Therefore, my future plan is to renew my commitment and dedication to this cause. The war of the elite against the people is still on and raging, the journey is still very far. The country is sinking, there is general decadence in the society, and the legal system in the country is not also immune to this decadence. I plan to exploit the law in the defense of the oppressed working class and the poor while having it in mind that real emancipation and justice for the working class and the poor can only be achieved through the revolutionary overthrow of this blood-sucking system of capitalism. The struggle continues until the final victory.” Adeshina said
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