REALITIES OF RUNSA IN YOUR FACE

The basis of human existence is to serve others; service is what Redeemer’s University Students’ Association (RUNSA) is meant for. A lot has been going on lately that leaves the mind wondering if some RUN students are really capable of effecting the change that we have been willing to effect when we go into the larger society.

The good thing about RUNSA is that it has bought out ‘the beauty and the beast’ in students. Students you would have earlier believed would be the most objective have become so biased that one cannot help but ask: Is there still hope in this generation? The truth is that, those that are faithful in little will get more; if students are unable to handle the little that has been placed in their hands now (RUNSA), how would they handle that which is bigger (Nigeria/world).

For any reasonable person to conclude that the world is about ‘politicking’ makes the work of politicians inhumane and anti-human. I believe the aim of any reasonable leader is objectivity and service. If a leader begins to think outside this box to favor personal interest of any constituency (Chapel, hostel, or college), then, we have a big problem in our hand. If a leader is not thinking of how to make others comfortable as much as he/she is comfortable, then, this generation has lost the battle; it can as well continue in the steps of the generation it has so much reviled because they sort solace in tribalism and segregation. Like a student said, ‘this world is full of evil, but life is good’. If we don’t learn to make the world as good as life, selfishness will be the order of the day. Humans will return to the age that was considered ‘harsh and brutish’ by Thomas Hobbes.

Although, it is quite understanding that some of the students have their corrupt parents as role models, they must begin to disabuse their minds from the dirty politics going on in our country and fashion out new systems that will help serve the purpose of human existence. If Britain is practicing parliamentary system of government, United States is practicing presidential system, etc, must we copy them. If the biggest political party in Nigeria is involved in making life unbearable for those that don’t share in their selfish philosophies, MUST WE DO THE SAME.

If our generation does not break itself from the shackle of the past generation, especially as it relates to objectivity and justice, then, the next generation coming behind us will call for our heads and we will be worse than the generation we have so much criticized. If our excuse is that we are just starting and we condone the things we can change now in our foundation, those that will come behind us will have justification for their willful inadequacies, and we will have no moral justification to condemn them or blame them for what ever we think they are doing wrong. Don’t forget, we will remain alumni in this school and our history book will one day be opened for all to see.

Thanks to Onwuma-George David of RUNPRESS for the article.