For some years now, we have witnessed how universities and colleges final year brethren hold what they call the FYB (Final Year Brethren) week.
Within these period they use different outfits to portrait significant difference about the the past and present. They have the back to school day, the jersey day, the old school day, the cultural day, the corporate dress day, the jean on jean day, and so on.
As in the with many of our youths of this day, 99% of them do not wish to identify their back ground and tell us the true story about their past and even present conditions in their families. We see students who passed through government secondary schools or community secondary schools in typical villages parading in uniform meant for private schools.
They dress neatly carrying water bottles, expensive nice looking shoes and rucksacks. People who get to look tattered, with their worn out sandals or slippers and patched uniform during their secondary school days, while carrying their meagre notebooks in polythene bags.
This is very revealing as it tells the full story of where most of our young ones often lost and get it wrong. The fake life that is crippling the society usually originate from higher institutions.
This is where a student whose parents can’t afford two or three square meals is using a phone worth a million naira. On this day (FYB), every university students becomes sons and daughters from a rich home who went to sch with flashy stuffs. All lies, people with worn out uniforms.
Almost the FYB students in Prince Abubakar Audu university (PAAU), during the back to school outfit, only one student standout to portrait the real story about his secondary school days which got the attention of so many people in the campus.
23yrs old Isaiah Luky Oluwafemi, from the department of geography, social science faculty, Prince Abubakar Audu university( PAAU) Anyigba, Kogi State, He’s from Kabba LGA, Kogi State. The young man has expressed the pain and fun some of us passed through while trying to acquire formal education, although it was fun amongst the students but unfortunately wasn’t funny for their parents who struggled just to make sure they obtain prominent education.
According to Lucky, he says “dad will always say you must go to sch and be great”, unfortunately he lost his dad and his mom struggled just to make sure he goes to sch, he gives his gratitude to his mom.
He was rewarded by many people for being genuine.
– Ebiloma Dorathy Chubiyojo
Prince Abubakar Audu University, Anyigba.
