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The recent closure of the University of Liberia over disagreement between the administration and the students is a big setback and a big disappointment to Liberians. Many appeals were made by Liberians in different quarters, including the media, but both students and the administration failed to agree for the sake of our common bond, which is Liberia. We as Liberians, regardless of slight differences, we are all under oath and obligation to protect every fabric of our society, particularly institutions of higher learning.
The refusal by both parties to heed the numeral compassionate appeals by their fellow Liberians is not only unpatriotic but also narcissistic and unrealistic The University of Liberia is not only a public University, but it also represents the image of our country. It represents almost everything we stand for. It represents peace, justice, excellence, our identity and the list goes on. But instead, all we as citizens and foreign friends and partners see is a complete failure and indignity because fellow Liberians failed to agree with one another on resolvable issues. The University of Liberia has lost every bit of its dignity because it is perpetually problematic. Years out years in, the University of Liberia had had a variety of problems that rendered it ineffective and for the most part, considered virtually an irrelevant institution. Hundreds of University of Liberia graduates are not taken seriously by some Liberians, employers and significant others, because the University itself is not taken seriously. Now that you, the so-called militant students and the administrators failed to put aside your arrogance and insensitivity in the cause of your country. What has it profited you after the institution was closed down? It profited none of you except that people look at you as enemies of progress, who want things done their way and who believe waving a little bit heir your rights would reduce your professed respect in the community. But this article will confront you to make you understand none of you is a winner. Instead, you have done a great deal of disservice to your people and those who depend on the institution to further their education. And particularly to you the so-called militant students, this is not to say, this article is holding you in contempt, or suggesting you did not have the right to do what you did. But the fact is you overstretched your right by resulting to violence. The recent closure of the University, let the truth be told, was the result of danger that was posed to the institution by so-called militant students, who frequently caused disturbances by disrupting classes and wanted to escalate the situation, that might have the propensity to involve the government and other significant institutions, and caused greater harm to the university to keep closed for a very long time. Given the foregoing analysis, this article comes to a close with an appeal to the government of Liberia, particularly the Ministry of Education and the Board of Trustees or Board of Directors to begin a comprehensive inquiry into what led to the closure of the University. These authorities should after the comprehensive inquiry, try to find an independent committee that would comprise members of the Board of Directors or Board of Trustee, students and student leaders from the University of Liberia and Liberians from various professional backgrounds as well as chiefs and elders and members of civil society organizations with the aim of identifying all the problems that have confronted the institution in past years, so that recommendations can be made to put an end to constant disturbances at that institution. Meanwhile, this article calls on all Liberian students to desist from using violence as a way of putting forward their grievances. Let us be reminded that it is you the students? time that is being wasted. Let students regardless of how severe their situation may be, exercise patience and wait on authorities to look into their problems or grievances while they, students continue their classes uninterrupted. Students have the right to take their problems beyond UL administration if the administration failed to handle their problems agreeably or acceptably. Too many times and years, in fact, every year the University of Liberia goes through crisis. The most recent ones are the mass failure of students in the entrance exams that happened twice in succession. These events do not look good for the nation?s oldest university from which came thousands of men and women who are today in state power and others in places of nation building. |
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