Those who truly feel the pain of the recent
UON drama is us who have the name stuck with us forever. Even if I went to
another university and did the exact course I studied in UON nothing will ever
change about the fact that I spent solid four years of my life at UON.
I have been on record many times saying
that demos at UON are pointless and will never achieve anything not in the way
they are done! Never mind that SONU and food cannot be ignored (really!).
Dear comrades being in university should
set you apart from each and every other villager out there who has never had
the privilege of setting foot there. Being a university student means you were
among the best in more ways than one. It is expected that you have a certain
thinking capacity that millions out there do not have. But guess what? We have
just given life to the old joke of "selling a cow to educate another
cow". No sober university student burns buildings because they are
throwing a cheap tantrum, didn’t your mother spank you enough when you threw
tantrums at two!! Then you need to meet my mother! So how many solutions did
you get when you burnt down the SONU office? After burning down the Mess, how
many lecturers or the UON administrators went hungry?
About the vandalism at what was to be an event
by the US Embassy, really comrades did we have to stoop that low, hadn’t we
gone low enough already?
The ramifications of our thoughtless
actions will be dire my friends and trust me Sam Gichuru only showed us a tip
of the iceberg. Mo Sounds will never employ a UON graduate not because we are
all violent but because once beaten twice shy. You can insult Sam Gichuru all
you want but if you know what he does you should be peacefully matching to his
office with a bouquet of roses and perhaps attempt to appease him. Trust me
when more players in the private sector pick up the same spirit and attitude
concerning this matter and they speak in one voice we will all wish we studied
at University of Matopeni.
You do not stone cars that belong to a
potential future employer.
My dear comrades we are surely better than
that! We have allowed a hand full students decide the fate of more than 500,000
others. We have entrusted our legacy to a few people who stumbled and found themselves
in UON. Let the law take its course and let’s see real action, let people be
jailed and do not put them in a cell and allow them to take a selfie with a
bottle of whisky. It’s okay IG Boinet I took note of that and now I know there
exists classes of criminals. Last I checked electronic gadgets let alone
alcohol were not allowed in cells, but again not all animals are equal, RIGHT?
Dear Dr. Matiang’i, I liked you, your energy
and enthusiasm. Perhaps I still do. I had this illusion and a really good dream
that sanity would eventually return to our institutions of higher learning. Sir
we need you to stop acting like UON does not exist, let people answer and take
responsibility for slowly but surely degrading the reputation of that great
university. If for nothing else, do it for your grandchildren. They need to
have a better narrative about their mothers and fathers so that they not only
read about their ability to hurl projectiles and brave the torture of tear gears.
It’s an institution of HIGHER learning, please let it remain so. Don’t kill the
little trust I still have in you. It’s a cry from an innocent young girl who
shaped her life in UON. She also knows that there are many incredibly great
minds back there and still, a handful that only stumbled and fell there. They
neither value intellect nor the reputation of an institution whose name they
will carry throughout their lives.
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