At the Lead City University, Ibadan, a
routine evolved gradually out of the disparate tasks set before me. The exactitude of how I strayed into the
Campus Radio and emerged as a regular feature can be traced to an event at the
Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta. I was nominated to accompany students to a conference on Global
Security and Terrorism relating to the role of Youths. The Station Manager of
the Campus Radio was also numbered amongst our entourage.
During the conference, I made an
unplanned and unscripted intervention. The discussion focused on how to
dissuade youths from terrorism. As I listened to each contribution indulging
beyond the two minutes allotted, I began to swell with an insatiable desire to
speak. I mused to myself, these contributors seemed to be smothered in theory,
with little practical experience of the subject matter. With quick thought, I
scribbled a note and forwarded it to the organisers with a plea to be allowed
to intervene, it was with awe and in surprise that I got the nod to proceed on to
the stage but with firm instructions to limit myself to two minutes. I jotted a
few points to organise my thoughts and provide clarity and certitude to my
articulation and then I heeded the call.
In presence of President Olusegun
Obasanjo, Chief Kessington Adebutu, Prof Ade Mabogunje, the Marshall of the
Federal Road Safety Corps and Vice-Chancellors of many Universities, I
started my didactic intervention with only the barest of mention at protocol. What happened in those precise two minutes
was to turn the hall berserk and provoke a reaction from President Obasanjo. Read more from Didactic Intervention II...http://promiseofmygeneration.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/didactic-intervention11.html
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