Nothing Like #1.8million Phone calls - OAU student Leader

GREAT IFE STUDENT UNION LEADERS IS YET TO SUBMIT ANY BUDGET.

THE 1.8MILLION FROM SPACE

RE: STUDENTS UNION LEADERS BUDGET N 1.8m FOR PHONE CALLS
The attention of the Great Ife Students’ Union has been drawn to the malicious propaganda that has circulated the media as regards the 1.8 Million naira budgeted for phone calls for Students’ Union Officers in Obafemi Awolowo University.
The Great Ife Students’ Union which serves as a model to other students’ union will not watch and look as this incorrect information continues to perverse the mind of the Nigeria populace. It is extremely important to say that we are not new to this malicious and mud-slinging act and out rightly condemns the post on punch.
It is very laughable that propaganda came out at a time when the budget is yet to be presented, deliberated upon and debated at the level of the parliament. The parliament has fixed October 12, 2015 for the budget sitting. The clerk of the House, Hon Ogunkanmi Omotayo in his statement “I was utterly shocked to read the news, and sees it as a campaign of misrepresentation and calumny against the students’ union leaders. The parliament is yet to receive, let alone deliberated upon any budget whatsoever. Then where comes the 1.8 million news?”. The authentic report of the parliament can only be issued by the clerk and he is yet to be contacted.
We sincerely consider this falsehood as a reprisal attack from the authorities that felt affected by the rally, as the Students Union joined in the Anti-Corruption Campaign yesterday in Oshogbo by staging “An Aregbesola Must Pay Rally” where we demanded the unconditional payment of all Workers in Oshogbo and further issued a 14-days Ultimatum to the President of the Federation to appoint a minister of Education and further demanded the implementation of the 26% budgetary allocation as recommended by UNESCO. Prior to the mass rally, the Students’ Union already paid the sum of 1.6 million to bail out 85 indigent students who could not afford the fee and risk the losing the session.


It is instructive to know that the recent propaganda which is maliciously aimed at bringing the sacred image of the Students’ Union and University in the mud may not be disconnected from the yesterday’s Anti- Corruption Crusade and the incessant clamour of a better living condition of the Nigeria people.


The Students’ Union, Obafemi Awolowo University will not at any point in time derail from the basic principles of Independent Unionism which is based on transparency, accountability which are standing legacies left by the likes of Lanre Adeleke (Lanre Legacy), Adeola Soetan, Segun Okeowo, George Iwilade Afrika who laid his life for the Union.
We hereby re-affirm our commitment towards intellectual and radical campaign against corrupt and irresponsible leaders at the helm of affairs and will consistently push for a Nigeria where Education is considered as a Right and not a privilege
AMANDLA AWETU……… NOTHING SHALL DISCOURAGE US

Emmanuel Ojedokun
Public Relations Officer


Hon Ogunkanmi Omotayo
Clerk of the Parliament

Hon. Moshood Adebayo Adebari
Speaker of the Parliament.


Omotayo Akande
President