Oladipupo Falola (not real name), a student at the Emmanuel Alayande College of Education (EACOED), which is affiliated with Ekiti State University, has accused the institution of stalling his academic progress by failing to mobilise him for the one-year mandatory youth service.

Falola told FIJ that despite writing his final papers as an undergraduate in June last year, the school’s management had not mobilised him for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

The student said that what baffled him the most was that the college had mobilised some students from his academic set, while his fate remained uncertain.

He stated that the problem started when the school delayed the last results for months. According to him, had the students not protested, management would have delayed the results for a longer period.

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Falola said that 10 months after he wrote final exams, the college released the graduating list with his name and three other political science students’ names.

“On the day of mobilisation for NYSC, some officials from the main campus in EKSU made me realise that they could not mobilise me because the management of the Emmanuel Alayande College did not submit the list containing my name for senate approval,” Falola told FIJ.

“We showed the officials the list we saw our names on, but they told us that the management only printed the list for correction in the event that there were errors, and when it was time to make the final print, they failed to print it out and join it with others for Senate approval.”

Falola said he and the affected students contacted the Emmanuel Alayande College management but they did not show remorse.

“An insider told us that the college plans to delay us till the set that graduated after us goes for service, which will probably be in the middle of next year,” he said.

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“When we met the school’s director on the issue, he said they would resolve it either the following week or soon. But they have done nothing to resolve the issue, after almost two months.”

Falola said the management of Emmanuel Alayande promised to make a supplementary list that would be taken to EKSU for Senate approval but did not act on their words.

“When we visited them to inquire about our graduation, since others from our set had collected their results and gone for service, they told us that they had insufficient funds to take the list to the main campus,” he stated.

“We graduated in 2021, but our result has May 2022 as the year we graduated. If they make us go for service the same as our juniors, it means they would delay us for two years after graduating. And we have no carryovers.

“So, they want to add another two years to make a four-year course seven years. Now I have lost opportunities. How could they have forgotten to print a graduating list?”

FIJ placed several calls to Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, but they were not answered. They had also not replied to text messages sent to them at press time.