These were the words in print on most walls of the
hostels before tempers of the students in session at the campus were lowered
after the long awaited mattresses arrived.
Some students have been missing mattresses for 6
weeks. Some hosted and accommodated by their friends or relatives while others
forced to form friendships with people they never thought of only because of
the crisis. But the hot tempered
students were cooled down when the first tractor with the mattresses arrived in
the campus last week. It was a hectic
moment for one to get a mattress some could even sacrifice a class for a
mattress. It was the rule of jungle applied before one gets the precious commodity
“mattress” where the strong energetic ones took their part and the others had
to give in.
Students
celebrating after they were allocated a mattress.
So many
questions rang on the minds of most of the second years and the common question
was, are we sons of fate?’’ Or have we
bewitched? The questions were triggered by the fact that the second years have
been at home for nine months holiday, some of them forced to quit the jobs that
kept them busy during the holyday only to find that the reporting dates are
changed, added by the strike just after the reporting date was announced and
worsened by the lack of mattresses after the strike.
During the application process via the online
procedure one could ought for the well spread bed as depicted on the pictures
on the webpage but the expectation were disproven by the great shortage of
mattresses mostly caused by the overflowing number of students (first and second years) in session.
Kadzo Sylvia.
