"A threat to justice anywhere is an injustice everywhere."
The circumstance which we have found ourselves today is uncommon, sober and reflective. The events of the past week have put to test the resolve of the management of University of Osun, the State Government and the State House of Assembly to give hope to the hopeless and the downtrodden. We are undelighted to note that the management of the University has demonstrated their hatred for the plebeians with their singular act. Today affords us an opportunity to protest the unjust and tyrannical expulsion of our fellow Students in the University in order to show our dissatisfaction against the suspicion, hurt and doubt which has been planted in the public by the act of the University management. It is an insult on the face of the University community and the entire country, and it should be of greater concern to all authority concerned especially Osun State government that the action which was taken against the Students of University of Osun is barbaric and uncalled for. It is so painful that the management of the University has failed totally in putting the Students interest into consideration before taking such a step which is very dangerous to our collective existence. It is so unfortunate that the University management failed to investigate whether truly the Students have been given their tuition fee by their parents as claimed. But, the truth still remains that many parents have been hampered in their financial responsibility owing to the country's economic reality to the extent that some of them have even withdrew their children from school due to their inability to meet the financial standard that is expected of them. In fact, many of these parents are civil servants that are being denied stipends they are being paid as salaries by the State government, and, those that are being paid are receiving half-salary instead especially those in Osun State.
