About 200 students may have been expelled by the authorities of Covenant University, Cannanland, Ota, Ogun State, recently for what was described as "disregard of paramount core values."
Frustrated and angered by the development, some of the affected students who gave account of what happened battled emotions while narrating their situations to Saturday Vanguard recently. They however pleaded with the school authorities to tamper justice with mercy in order to save their future.
Saturday Vanguard investigation revealed that out of the figure, about 126 were expelled for not attending the ‘departure service’, meant to sign off from the school after the end of the Semester and Matriculation of students on November 30. Five other students were thrown out for smoking while unconfirmed source said additional 60 got the same fate for violating other rules bordering on the University’s core values. A few others were given four weeks suspension for failure to sign the head count that was conducted a couple of weeks earlier.
A letter of expulsion signed by the Registrar, Ntia Ubong, a copy which was made available to Saturday Vanguard stated that the affected students contravened Chapter 1, section 30, page 40 of the 2010-2014 Student Handbook.
We gathered that the massive expulsion was predicated on the anger of the Chancellor, Bishop David Oyedepo who was said to have been infuriated after seeing students loitering around when they were supposed to be at the Chapel for the Departure Service.
He was said to have personally chased students to the Chapel and ordered for a search into all the halls and colleges to fish out those who did not attend the service.
Several attempts to get the school authorities to comment on the issue proved abortive. The Instituion’s Corporate Affairs Head, Mr Igban Emmaunel also refused to comment as calls pulled through to him were unanswered and text messages not replied.
Culled from Vanguard Newspapers
Now, this might sound a little harsh, but it is after all, COVENANT UNIVERSITY! An institution founded by a man of God bent on grinding the dust particles of morality and spirituality into the heads of its students in an attempt to raise citizens of high integrity and morality in the society. . .
. . . Now if you can't handle the heat, don't go into the kitchen.
Everyone wants to send their children to Covenant University, but very few truly understand what is required to KEEP their children in that institution.
. . . No be beans!
You must adhere STRICTLY to their rules and regulations, and if this is too much for you to do, for rational reasons, then it behooves you to find a way around it. . .
. . . That's part of the overall development of making you a solutions person. No situation should be too much for you to overcome.
OK, so you just finished your exams at 5pm, and the school's Departure Service is for 8pm, and you're either too tired, or sick to attend this compulsory service. . . What do you do?
You freaking FIND a way out, without falling foul of the rules, and without killing yourself.
That's why you're in COVENANT UNIVERSITY, isn't it?
Did you think it was going to be all fun and games? If you thought that, then perhaps you should've gone to MAULAG (Opps, sorry. . . I meant UNILAG. . . Duhh!!!).
The affected students and parents should just quit their whining and belly-aching and accept their fate.
You had some good money to spend on the education of your kid, so you take him or her to Covenant University, a SECONDARY SCHOOL renowned for its strict disciplinary measures, and now when the hammer of those measures have come down hard on the recalcitrant head of your kid, you're moaning and groaning.
Get over it! What did you expect?
Let me give the affected parents this advice, FOR FREE: Your children either have good moral and spiritual standing. . . or they don't!
The school CANNOT do that for them. . . That's your responsibility.
So when you take them to that school, what you're actually doing is taking a BIG RISK!. . . if they're morally bankrupt.
And it either pays off ('cos after 4 years they've somehow managed to escape punishment), or in this case. . .
. . . Their lack of discipline got up and bit them where the sun don't shine, and they've been caught out.
Parents should just leave the university alone, and cough out some more cash and send their kids to another private university. . .
. . . Which doesn't make attendance of church services compulsory!
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