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HIGHLIGHTS OF EMERGENCY OAUSU SRC SITTING


By Ayoola Omole

CONSIDERED MOTIONS

1. That the President of OAUSU, Oyekan Ibunkun (Dr. IBK) writes an apology letter sequel to his dereliction towards dictates of the constitution, pertaining to the procurement of a 14-seater bus as part of his administration's plans to cushion the effect of transportation complications faced by students, especially those who reside and transit off campus after daily  activities.

2. The President be suspended for two weeks, within the period which a constituted committee investigates issues surrounding #busgate (procedure leading to the purchase of the said bus) and submit a report conveying  recommendations to the Parliament on the next line of action.

*VOTING*
After a smooth voting session participated in by 69 out of a total of 82 representatives who were there seated, the first motion accrued 29 votes while the second accrued 40 votes, which by implication suspends the president and paves way for the intervention of an investigative committee.

Jubilation rocked Awo Cafe upon the counting of votes but before the speaker could announce the outcome of the votes and set up an investigative committee,  electricity went out, again, as has been the case during previous parliamentary sittings, totalling three,  spelling prematurely -a technical end to the sitting as students trooped in various directions.

According to reports, which cannot be confirmed by *ATTENCAO*,the speaker and other members of the House would later reconvene at the health center the same evening and consequently pronounce the suspension of the president. Whether or not the suspension of the president would take effect  therefore remains an open question as far as the legality of that move is concerned.


*REACTIONS*
Going by responses to a question ATTENCAO put on a social media platform as to  the power outage which had now become familiar with parliamentary sittings, we can gather that  80 % of the respondents believe that 'the familiar power outage' was staged and therefore a manifestation of conspiracy rather than coincidence.

In a chat with the Chairman Budgetary and Finance committee OAUSU, and former chairman, Audit Committee, Faculty of Art, Hon. Wale Oladebo who is of the opinion that such investigative committee can and should conduct investigations on #busgate before the suspension of the president, with the view of avoidance of administrative lapses,in the interest of the all, charged members of the the union to shun hypothetical assumptions and maintain an objective approach towards the evaluation of the matters on ground.

Asked what implications of the speaker's inability to proclaim the president's suspension were,  he said "Votes were cast, but a speakership declaration is left to that effect".
"If you are following the political trends on this campus, you will understand that this scenario is similar to that of the first congress where it was contained in the congressional resolution that the president declared the speaker suspended,  the same way I will not be surprised if the parliamentary resolution says the president has been declared suspended by the speaker".

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