AN OPEN LETTER TO THE VICE CHANCELLOR, NIGER DELTA UNIVERSITY, PROFESSOR SAMUEL GOWON EDOUMIEKUMO.
Dear Vice Chancellor sir, it's been a while I wrote to you, but events of recent happenings has prompted me to write you this morning.
I am aware that the name Raphael Biweribo Samuel is a bitter pill in your mouth and an itching in your ear, but you will agree with me that all I have stood for as a student leader and issues regarding Niger Delta University are genuine.
I have carefully studied the decisions you have made over time in my alma mata, ranging from fees, to clearance, closing of portals, to uniforms and what have you, and I put it to you without fear or favour that they are draconian and inhuman policies poised towards depriving thousands of students from acquiring University education.
I am aware that as at the time the likes of you attended the University, school portals were not closed, infact, you categorically stated before now that you had scholarships and most of your fees paid for, you stated that your parents could not afford much and it was a tough one for you but those helps saw you through. We are also aware that the school you attended only withheld certificates after graduation so students can finish payment before collecting their certificates but not make them to repeat levels, you will agree with me that if the system you went through had implemented such inhuman decisions, you wouldn't be a graduate today, come to talk of being a professor.
You were a good man so they say, what happened to that good man that was just an economics lecturer, is it the power, is it the connections, but be rest assured that nothing last forever. You can not be vice chancellor for ever, and those you have connections with in government will not be in government forever.
You and the deputy vice chancellor were bent on the rustication of myself, and other executives and faculty presidents and my then SA media because we stood against your draconian policies and you did everything to silence us on the directives of the then governor, but the protest rocking NDU today is an evidence of the saying that you can kill the messenger but you can not kill the message.
Many have dropped out because of your policies, many are thinking of suicide because of your policies, Niger Delta Univeristy has become a laughing stock because of your policies and i wonder how you sleep comfortably at night, be rest assured, posterity will judge everyone of us and karma is a bastard.
Vice Chancellor sir, I advise that since you can not protect the interest of the institution you manage, you kindly take a bow and step aside. One day, they will rise and fight back, and It is happening already, because soon, you will not be able to intimidate anyone.
I am Raphael Biweribo Samuel, a proud Niger Delta University Alumnus, a son of Aluku/Igbidigbi, from Igbedi community.
I am no respecter of the unjust.