When people get into power that is when you will know if they are humble or not. Sometimes you don't get to know what people are capable of doing when they are poor or when they are in a situation where they can't do much. Give them power and you will see the beast in them at work.
The topic for this week 123 edition 3 brings to rememberance my late lecturer who made us go through hell when he took us a particular course in English department last year. When we resumed for our semester semester in 300 level last year we were introduced to him as the lecturer to take a course. We weren't sure of what to expect, but we accepted it in good faith and continued to come for lectures. Two weeks into his lecture he told us that he will show us how true color. We thought it was a joke. The first thing he did was to close the door to the lecture hall immediately he enters the hall. That was understandable. Some lecturers do have their policy and we respected that for him.
Secondly, we discovered that of you want him to love you and talk well of you during his lectures just go to his office and give him money. That will settle everything for him. When he comes for lectures, he will insult some students and praise some students. And if you don't go and give him money you will not pass all the tests he administers in class. For someone like me who don't know what was happening, I became his worse enemy and no matter what I wrote during the test I will still get 1/10. Hahaha 😂. It sounds funny now but then I wasn't finding it funny. He kept frustrating me and making me feel very bad each time he comes for lectures. I kept wondering what I did to him that made him hate me so much. It wasn't just me, but a few of us in class that don't know that all that he needs was just money. He brags about everything and tells us that he will make us come back next year to meet him again in the same course, and you know what that means? Carry over of cause.
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I started hating to come for his lectures. The worse is that he takes us for two solid hours and for this two hours he will just be insulting students and making them feel less of themselves. He really knows how to use words to reduce people to nothing. We actually endured it for that whole section. It was very very bad to be with that man for that period.
We tried reporting to the school authority. We gave them enough reason so that they can change that lecturer but all to no avail. At the end we just decided to endure him till the end. All glory to God because we barely finished when he fall sick and died after two weeks. I don't really know what to say about his death. Some say it is as a result of what he did to us and some say that it is the prayers of all the people he has offended who cried to God against him. For me, I don't have anything against him. I know that he is gone for good and we are still going through with our lectures.
Lessons learnt:
Live is given to is just once and after that we face God.
Do to others what you will want other to do to you.
When you are going up be nice to people you meet on your way because you don't know who will help you on your way down.
In conclusion, suffering don't last just as it happened with us and today we can only remember what happened in the past.
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