Monday, February 2, 2009

“LOOKS ARE DECEIVING”


In many institutions of higher learning in northern Nigeria, students, mostly females, are given dress codes of what to wear and what not to. The appalling thing about this is that the people enforcing these dress codes are the security personnel at the schools’ main gates who are next to illiterates. Whether this is a deliberate attempt to ridicule the students or the authority just want to introduce radical religious measures is yet unknown, but I do know that this is unjustified.
Unfortunately, these students either do not have a voice or they are afraid they might be victimized. The authority says the females are seducing them thereby distracting them from their work. I agree, but I also think that you can only be tempted with preconceived idea or thought.
So the authority should back off these kids and change their orientation. Stop seeing their students as people they can sleep with but as sons and daughters who have come to them to tutored. There are of course some that might come to play and waste their precious time of youth in the schools hence distract others, but these kinds of people are everywhere. So my advice, concentrate on the few good ones, give their energy to the serious ones. After all, “LOOKS ARE DECEIVING”.

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