A Graduate of NDU Post this on Facebook: "Convocation Photo of a Smiling Face with a Bleeding Heart"

CONVOCATION PHOTOS OF A SMILING FACE WITH A BLEEDING HEART

For the records, my name is Numontei Meshack Sintei (Advanced Comr), but on social media I’m known as Sintei N. Meshack. I had my first degree in B.Sc, Political Science (Hons) from the most prestigious university and citadel of learning in Africa called Niger Delta University (NDU), Bayelsa State. 

Even while I was pursuing my M.Sc degree in Public Administration from the University of Benin (UNIBEN), the Professors over there kept asking me, “Youngman, you seem so studious, hardworking and disciplined”. Where did you say you graduated from again? I simply told them “NDU…an institute created out of the swampy mangrove forest, now situated and located at the Wilberforce Island, an island of Knowledge, Creativity, Service and Excellence”.

As part of students’ extracurricular activities, I was privileged to serve as the longest serving SUG President where I served and stayed in office for 2 years (2012-2014). I served my people well and the records are there for public scrutiny. 

You’ll not understand the reason for this lengthy sermon; NDU has been a blessing to me. Infact, 2/3rd (two-third) of my family and friends on social media are staff, lecturers, students and graduates of NDU. 

Hypothetically, NDU is like a Mother, a very good mother who has been hardworking to ensure that all her Children becomes responsible and contributes their own quota to society and humanity. Today, (thru the help of this woman) we’ve got our own NDU Doctors, Lawyers, Pilots, Lecturers, Comrades, Patriots, Sportsmen, Entertainers, Renowned Leaders, Public/Civil Servants, Government Appointees, Preachers, Teachers, Law Enforcement Agents, Engineers, Fashion Designers, Self-Employers, top Models as well as Entrepreneurs. Infact, the list is endless. 

Today, this woman, our Mother, our beloved Alma mater is suffering. She’s bleeding like the woman with the issue of blood. Some of her Children have deserted her, they’ve abandoned her. Some are mute to her challenges, few don’t want to say anything becos of their political affiliations, others don’t just care, while many conscious minds are scared to talk in order not to offend the “invincible hand” or the “secret powers” that be. It’s a pity. 

Who am I, what could I have become in life if not NDU?? Maybe I would av been a pusher, a wheel barrow pusher or a drug pusher (but God forbid!). 

She’s dying slowly. All she needs now are 300 Men. Just like Gideon in the Bible and his 300 Men, or King of Sparta and his 300 men that’ll stand up for her in the face of oppression, repression, suffocation, extinction and a possible annihilation. 

While we’re waiting for these 300 Men, I believe that 1 Student, 1 Graduate, or 1 Comrade, or even 1 Stakeholder can make a difference and NDU will be a better place. So I’ll ask you, what would you do to help her?

In the words of Martin Luther King Jnr, “our lives begins to end the day we become silent about the things that matters” 

I am Sintei N. Meshack, and I am #Made_in_NDU

#SaveNDU 

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