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A Study On Public Relations As A Veritable Tool For Eradicating Cultism In Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
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Before attempting answers these questions, it is pertinent to sketch a
historical background on how cult was initiated in Nigeria high
institutions.
The ideas of campus confraternity began in 1953 when
Prof. Wole Soyinka established and registered the pirate confraternity.
The ideas started with the formation of the eagles. A campus magazine
devoted to fighting colonial regressive as represented by the Bug, a
journal committed to promoting ideas of white supremacy, at the same
time reducing the granted of Africanism.
Thus Soyinka, plus Olegbe,
Ralph Opara Aig- innochude, Ofoghada, Armadas Oyeloda and two others
came together with the establishment of pirate confraternity, which was
registered at the University of Ibadan. The noble laureate wrote in a
small treatise on the formation of pirates and said a one thing we
agreed was that there world into be any room for colonial mentality in
the club. Plans, the pirate confraternity was born. We were going to be a
story of counterrevolution against colonialismâ€.
The first
invitation took place behind Tedder hall in 1953 at University of
Ibadan, where Soyinka was chosen as the captain. The group had a symbol
of mystery, which was krola, a kind of soft drink at the mixed with
beer. The group was not really a secret cult soyinka further noted “most
of the rites, ceremonies and mysteries surrounding the club activities
were later- day innovation of future generation who identified with
ideals of the club at the time.
In 1942 however, there were minor
skirmishes with in the privates’ fold for ideological differences. The
fight was between those who embracer radical political and others who
had ice-cream consciousness and also those who betrayed the ideology of
the pirates ‘founding fathers, which the claimed should be substituted
with indecent contact and abuse of the pirates’ status on the campus.
Confrontation
ensures many pirates were suspended. They formed the Buccaneer with the
sole aim of destroying pirates’ legacy despites the skirmishes, the two
groups maintained a relatively peaceful co-existence and even carried
out humanitarian gestures, but wants took a new shapes around 1987 when
pirates pulled out of university campuses after a grandiose midnight
meeting at Nsukka, Enugu state.
Since then cultism in Nigerian
tertiary institutions have changed to terrorism, many devilish things
have happened. “Nature†was murdered in cold blood at campus ii. Rival
cult members at the Trans-Ekulu area while going to visit a friend
killed another student. Similar incident like this had happened in other
Nigerian tertiary institutions all over the country.
Worst still,
female secret cults like black brassiere; Amazon and Daughters of
Jezebel have emerged like a rash. The female secret cults are as violent
as their male counterparts. Some of the names and headquarters of these
secret cults are: the black bee and block cat at UNN, the buccaneers at
ESUT, the sea dogs at UNEC, the Ogboni confraternity with headquarters
at ESUT, the Ondo State University; the red dogs, the Mafia group with
headquarters at UNIPORT; the Eckanka, the Mgbangba brothers with
headquarters at UNIZIK; the black beret; the free masoning fraternity
with headquarters at UNIPORT; the Vikings with headquarters at UNIPORTS;
the Amazon, the daughters of Jezebel with headquarters at Edo state;
black brassiere, temple of Elders, Burkina Faso revolution, Trojan
horse, Neo- Black movement etc. this packaged programme will be
communicated to people of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree community whom
the project is meant for finally, evaluation of the programme will be
under taken to know the success or otherwise of the programme will be
under taken to know the success or otherwise of the programmes and also
to know if an alternative solution would be sort. Some identifiable
causes of this cultism in Osun State Polytechnic, Iree are:
(i)
Adolescent delinquency, in those days you had more matured students who
even have families back home but these days the reverse is the case.
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