WATCH WELL AS YOU REST YOUR SOULS- OWONOLA ABIODUN EQUITY

Its four years you left us.We reflect upon the life itself. Life, not without its lessons, sweet and otherwise. As we remember you this day, what came to mind are your deeds when you were alive.You were all shining stars in your domains.

Abiodun Akintola, you were the SUG president of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo and the only child of your mother. You were a wonderful and a dependable ally.You were no doubt your parent' s bet for the future. You were never found wanting amidst valedictorians during your times.

Phenomenon, as you were fondly called by your friends and foes alike, you were a command in leadership. We never got your best.

Olotu Oyinkansola, mother as I often call you,you were a fearless young lady who cared less about whose horse is being gored when it comes to telling the truth. You were afraid of poverty .Hence, your resolve to forge ahead amidst d absence of your both parents at a tender age. We missed what you aspired to become.

Adedapo Julius Awopegba(DPO.DUE PROCESS ONLY), as your name suggests,you were in greater order a great observant of the rule.

Dapo, you were a gentle friend who most of times, we challenge your interest in the murky water of game of politics. Dapo, you were a pastor turned students leader, you were always quick to quote the bible to justify your actions and inactions. I call you my gentle friend. You could travel to the UK ,a month later. Your family in Ibadan will have to wait eternally to get from their child their hopes of generations, Adieu.

Aremo Olugbenga Oyebode (Ibile).For years, yourself and I were quick to call to order any erring leader and follower respectively. My no nonsense friend,you lived and stood for what for what you believed.

At a time,you were suspended along side other colleagues of yours, other the account of your opposition to the draconian policies of the school authority. Ibile, you were loved by many on your pragmatic dispositions to issues. As NANS/JCC chairman ,ondo /Ekiti Hemisphere, which we both fought for but you were favoured, you were the first to make peace with me even while I was fighting you. You later allowed Ondo Axis to remain without fussion and friction. Do I say, you were the NANS president we never had?. Rest on, a great leader and friend .

It is often said that" integrity is doing what you will do, how you said you will do it and when you said you will do it. "As we mark the fourth year you left us and we reflect over events that greeted these years, we wish to remind you that we have always preached what you lived for.

July 13th, 2012 was a red letter day. This day, you lost the battle with the Almighty death and few others were permanently disabled.

Some move from one hospital to the other in search of good health .One of your friends now talks off points anytime you initiate discussion with him. One could not conveniently rotate his neck well. Sadly, no one talks about them anymore.

My dear friends, you will recall we fighting together the Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo cause on several platforms and fronts. There were times we had to shuttle media houses and outlets. We fought hard to secure an appointment with the then minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyat Rufai in order to put an end to the crisis on your campus. We met with her hours before you bade us bye.

Shortly after you died, at ACE, Ondo, your friends and colleagues, sold your struggles for paltry sum. The management later imposed reparations fees of about #18,000 each on the students. This we vehemently opposed till death put asunder. I know you will weep for our generation.

As I groan in pains, somewhere in Ibadan, the news filtered to me that the governor of Ondo state Dr Olusegun Mimiko visited FUTA in order to pacify the protesting student's who were protesting the death of their president, Dapo Awopegba. The governor promised to immortalize you all and to take full responsibilities of those injured in the accident, these happened on the eve of July 14th, 2012.

On your immortalization, we have boundlessly took on the authority concerned to redeem its pledge.

My dear friends, we have had courses to ask if the sack of lecturers and non academic staff of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, was a form of immortalization two months you left this world.

Comrades, let me not belabour your souls. Few months you sojourned to great beyond, lecturers of Rugipo who were agitating for the welfare of the friends, lost their lives in an acident while returning from meeting they had with the govt of Ondo State. The students paid dearly for this. I am sure you all fraternize together in the bosom of the Lord. In the same Rugipo,fees were increased astronomically with students leaders who expressed dissenting view rusticated and some suspended.

My dear friends, the pitiable state of Osustechstudent Okitipupa, do not reflect your aspirations.

This school was 3 years old when you left. As I write, the school has only a faculty and five departments in all with only one standing building. I know this will amuse you. The studens pay through their noses, with their lecturers and non academic staff in perpetual hunger.

As I write you, your friends and colleagues are home for over 2months when staff could. Not longer serve with empty stomach. Ha,your brothes and sisters now live and study in the zoo along igbokoda road.

My dear friend, your brothers and sisters you left here here no longer enjoy any privilege in form of bursary and scholarship from the this outgoing govt.

My dear colleagues, just recently, an inhumane and wicked reparations fees were imposed on the students of Aaua. Some students leader rusticated and some suspended without fair hearing.

Colleagues, I am presently sad as the management of Rugipo is planing to impose another wicked reparations fees on students. This is connected to the face off between the students and men of Nigerian police force recently.

Some students leaders r presently facing studtns disciplinary committee.

The rot haven't excluded your friends and colleagues you left in the struggle. Your once highly respected constituency is now a huge joke. Your friends now first grade liars and hypocrite whose stock in trade is now backbiting and backstabbing.

My dear friends,rest on as I write you in my yet to be published works namely :The man and the government and The scars of a journey .

Owonola Abiodun Equity, Survivor ,July 13 ,2012, accident.