Tough love

Exams are ended again. Students are now free. That is, psychological tranquility returns. There is a kind of bondage that exams usually create. The type that makes students unconsciously forget to pray, to eat, to brush tooth and most times, to bathe. Some students culture dirt, like a garden. They then release odoriferous body odors which distorts the smooth running of exams. This, of course, can invariably be related to the recent rise in examination failures. But exams are not an excuse for being unkempt.

A lot of rituals are carried out after final year exams. The writing on clothes. The tearing of shirts. Shouting. Screaming. And most foolishly, the pouring of water on graduating students. Even, some students have taken this fresh madness a step further. They now resort to pouring oil, urine, water from sewage, fuel, stew, kerosene and other ridiculous liquids they can easily lay their filthy hands-on.

The other day, as I walked past the female hostel, an unfortunate lady was ‘forced’ to sit on the bare floor while some bunch of hungry looking banana shaped-headed females emptied the contents of an alcoholic drink on her head. Pity. But what if, I thought, peradventure, another scatter brain student decides to spice up the show by throwing in a pack of matches, or maybe a lighter? Won’t the graduating student be turned to a graduating meat? Too bad.

It is a wrong way of showing love. The kind of love that is inconvenient. Hence, it is tough love.

Some students even go the extent of making pap, (akamu in local parlance), and after garnishing the delicacy with the not-so-popular ingredients, proceed without caution to empty this on graduating students. This is not fair to common sense. Again, the other day, as I stood in front of the male hostel, waiting for a friend and at the same time, wondering how to fill my belle; to my bewilderment, a huge headed black male student began emptying two live bottles of those big pepsi-cola drinks on another of his huge headed friend who just finished exams. It is a terrible tragedy to have such a head size and yet devoid of common sense.

But this habit of bathing liquids on final year students has a lot of downside. Some few months ago, we were told of how a student died from the act in Imo state University. Little wonder the faculty of pharmacy placed a ban on it. Some students are even bathed in places far away from their hostels. And before they walk to their hostels to change clothing, they start shaking like one of those cassava grinding machine. And for the ladies who take pleasure in wearing tight clothes, pouring any liquid on them make them appear further naked.

Everything ought to be done with moderation. Either you don’t pour water at all. Or, pour clean water, and at least, close to a place where the ‘victim’ can change clothing quickly. As for me; whosoever pour me any liquid, whether water, oil, or anything fluid, would spend the next 72 hours explaining to the EFCC where he got the money to purchase the water. It is corruption and Buhari is my friend.

Fake news on blogs

Some unscrupulous elements, tagged bloggers, recently threw caution to the wind. They went ahead to publishing lies on their blogs about the dead. They were pathological liars and devoid of the truth. They are like the devil, just as Jesus says, “When he lies, he lies of his own and he is the father of it”.

Recently, during the just concluded examinations, some students lost their lives due to some varying medical condition. But, instead of reporting the story as it was, some scatter brain bloggers saw it as a means to cash in on the death of these fellows. They then married their ghosts and placed them on a spiritual intimacy.

There was a story making the rounds of one crush liking another crush, and that another crush had to poison the girlfriend of the crush. I got confused on this ‘crushing’ story. It was a crushing lie. These perpetrators ought to be crushed. The University of Benin management and the SUG body totally frowned at it. Please desist from such acts. Confirm stories before they are published.

© Ezekiel Efeobhokhan

600 pharmacy UNIBEN

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