Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Harrowing pictures of Nigerian Police Academy cadets' living conditons

This is not meant as a direct answer to Prof. Aluko's question, but I will like to raise another question centered around the theme of hopefulness. Have we ever thought that in Nigeria people are losing hope in the fundamental sacredness and dignity of both self and others? And that this may be as a result of the fact that every single institution of being (from which the aims, aspirations, vision, roles, responsibilities, and expectations of humanity is expressed) has failed them? So, why should people care about personal and communal hygiene when their reality, in reference to Mbembe, is one filled with "magico-poetic violence"? 

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:

My People:

There is ABSOLUTELY no reason why the police barracks should look the way they are from the pictures that we see, and you must not blame the leadership ALONE.  Those who live in those hostels have a MINIMUM responsibility to keep their IMMEDIATE environments clean - the beds (or iron sheets) that they sleep on,  their rooms, the outside grounds of their hostels -  even if the amenities themselves are NOT first- or even second-class. 

At the university at Otuoke, I am INSISTING as VC that ALL students (male and female)  ENSURE that their own rooms are clean (we have provided brooms, mops and wastebaskets throughout the hostels; we plan to have at least one each per room on the long run), and that the university will only be responsible to provide cleaners and groundsmen to ensure carting away various collected REFUSE away from the hostel.   In a police college/barrack or army barrack, the discipline should be even higher than in a secondary school or university, and the Commandants should be able to insist of that of the residents..

There is no doubt that lack of electricity and water present problems in institutional residences - particularly water, which is essential, but so dependent on electricity to pump to tanks for mass storage and usage - but merely keeping the PHYSICAL environment clean does not depend on either of these.

I stand to be corrected....and there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:55 PM, <ojodumi39@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, go check round all our institutions of learning/training from secondary to tertiary to NYSC orientation camps and you will find even worse scenarios. Our leaders all know, they only pretend not to. Which way Nigeria?

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From: Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com>

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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:24:20 -0800 (PST)

To: Toyin Falola<USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Harrowing pictures of Nigerian Police Academy cadets' living conditons

My people,

 

Please view these pictures. How do we explain this travesty? Have we no shame? I think every living Inspector General of Police since Independence should be hauled before the people to explain this savagery.

 

- Ikhide

 

ps.

 

I have news for you all; many  public '"educational insitutions are just as bad."

 

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:

Ikhide:

Horrible facilities, not fit even for animals...one is then not surprised at their episodic behavior when they "graduate"...

But what is this guy below doing again?

Inquiring minds want to know...

Bolaji Aluko

Shaking his head

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:

My people,

 

Please view these pictures. How do we explain this travesty? Have we no shame? I think every living Inspector General of Police since Independence should be hauled before the people to explain this savagery.

 

- Ikhide

 

ps.

 

I have news for you all; many  public '"educational insitutions are just as bad."

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