Insecurity has become a great deal in the country and more pressing than poverty, as of today. Almost every part of the country is no longer safe for the citizens to stay, walk, work and carry out their day to day legal business without fear in their mind, going by the high rate of insecurity in the country.
Sadly, the insecurity has grown wings that it now covers and hovers around even the University Community, unfortunately there’s little that could be done to savage this situation, though we have all it takes to do better and outsmart the unscropulous elements perpetrating this evil acts of kidnapping, either for ransom request or for rituals.
It’s however with great joy that I welcomed the latest declaration of the school management, putting an end to passage of vehicles with tinted glasses into the school premises, both the main Campus, Ugbowo and the annex, Ekenwan Campus.
In an update released by the school management, titled “Prohibition of Vehicles with Tinted Glasses Within The University Premises,” signed by the School Public Relations Officer, Dr. Benedicta Ehanire, the school has taken a bold step in curbing this menace and surely this will go a long way in shutting doors on the noxious beings, who have taken delight in blood sucking.
Having taken this applauding step, it’s perninet to know that not only vehicles with tinted glasses can perpetrate this evil acts, but anyone else could, especially when they have free access to the school premises and out without proper check.
To this end, we as the Association of Campus Journalists, University of Benin write to plead to the management to also make it a pronouncement that with immediate effect, no vehicle should be allowed to leave the school premises without having their boots checked – who knows, a vehicle with religious body inscription could be used to kidnap. We know this will cause traffic congestion inside or outside the school, but are we not going to be happy seeing traffic gridlock than hearing of another kidnapping case?
In same vein, we like to also notify the school that the access to the school for vehicles with learner’s tag should also be abolished with immediate effect. What can be done to a licence carrying learner who hits a student to death after allowing them in at the first place?
If higher institutions like University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta amidst others don’t allow vehicles with learner’s plate into their school premises, University of Benin, the “Great Uniben” shouldn’t be seen allowing that.
With this little suggestion from our pen, we believe that more sanctity will be experienced in the school environment and rest will come to the mind of students and staffs, both teaching and non teaching that they are safe, within the community.
Written by: Ayoola Adeleke
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