The gauntlet... (Diary Excerpts 29/06/2013)

The mob waited outside for him, blocking all possible escape routes, their intentions were clear, the young man was going down, he was gonna get soaked in red.

They spread out the bottles amongst themselves and waited patiently...patiently as the moment of truth drew near. Soon it was time.

The moment they saw him step out, they grabbed him and dragged outside, forced him to his knees while at the same time tearing his white shirt to shreds. He struggled to stand but the tug and the pull, the weight of several arms and the passion he saw in their eyes made his legs give way. He knew there was no turning back, he had to heed to the motioned out request.

It was the last paper and as a ritual final year students are poured water and any other liquid the perpetrators choose to use, as long as it's not dangerous. This time, the object of the whole fiasco was our LAWSA president and he was getting it real hard.

They tore his shirt, poured water and zobo on him then tore part of his trousers. All this he took with a smile on his face.

After they had thrown several sachets of water at him and emptied their bottles of zobo, they let him go while they went to join the sachet water shooting and zobo bottles emptying frenzy at the car park...lest i forget, there was lots of champagne too, so much the whole car park stank of alcohol.

You won't really understand until you've being in a federal university in Nigeria for atleast three years, then you'll know to have spent five years is no small task. The stress, the trauma, the drama...everything's finally ends. I don't think anybody would mind having water, champagne and zobo emptied on them, i for one hope they do it to me, cos to read book is not a small something.

Congratulations to all final year law students, UNIBEN, wish you success in your endeavors outside the 'Berlin wall' .

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