An Open Letter to The Polytechnic, Ibadan Vocational Skills and Entrepreneurship Study Center (VSESC)

From an aggrieved student named Teniola, the letter reads:

I salute the institution for establishing a vocational centre for the benefit and empowerment of her students. It is a great development which should be practised in every learning institution.

I write this with a heavy and disturbed heart. Not for anything,but for the pains this development is causing those it was meant to bless.

With my few months as a student of this great institution, I have come to realize that this is a cross we have been subjected to bear with bruises.

Not only is this development gulping our finances, it is also giving us heartaches at the thought of having an extra year if at all we miss it.

I cannot keep mute because others are mute. Yes, no one is talking but everyone is sad and murmuring.

I was told payments are to be made every semester, 60% for first semester and 40% for second semester. We had no training during the first semester,yet we paid the sum of #2,410…thinking the second semester would be cheaper,but we ended up paying #2,550… How is that 40%?

Was that all? We started the said training, hundreds of students in a class. I learnt virtually NOTHING even as a cosmetology student. And there comes another payment of #500 each which makes a sum of #5000 per group just for practical. Why? And what practical were we given in my group? Fixing of nails, some were given weavons to fix and still they had to pay another money to get the relaxer. Not only do we receive materials extremely low to the money we paid, we are also faced with the challenges of doing things we dont understand. How can I pay such amount of money yet i can’t shape a brow?

Oh I thought that was all, but we had to come up with another #1000 as a group to type and bind our manual. And now that we are meant to submit our log books, we are asked to contribute another #1500 as a group before we can submit.

What more definition can we give to corruption than this? This is not only happening in cosmetology but every other study centre as well,with some paying higher amount. What have we done to deserve this? Is it a crime to be a student of The Polytechnic, Ibadan? It has become a compulsion on us to pay all these fees else we will be faced with a carryover.

The economy is harsh on us all. Our parents are complaining, we make most of these payments with our feeding allowances. Do you not care for us?

The painful part is, this is an every year case. I can’t believe i will make all these ridiculous payments next year again, when I still have my exorbitant tuition fees to battle with every semester.

Please do review your rules. We are weeping inside. My name is Teniola, i stand against corruption.

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