To survive in school, you must take your safety and security seriously. In as much as Government and Institutions take actions to protect you in school, you are your own chief security officer with your actions of omission and commission. Never take your safety and security in school for granted. Never join any cult group. Avoid the company of cultists. Do not be involved in clashes involving factions of unions, associations, or cults.
The first component of the law of survival is to take your safety in campus seriously and never to take your safety for granted.
The things you do or fail to do, the company you keep, the places you go to, all determine whether you survive or die in campus.
It determines whether you become part of the statistics of students injured, expelled or suspended from campus. It also determines if you will be counted as one of those arrested, detained and charged to court by law enforcement agencies.
Following the death of students in cult related violence in one University in 1999, the Federal Government of Nigeria inaugurated a judicial commission of enquiry to ascertain “the cause or causes of perennial incidents of clashes between members of students unions, associations, secret cult members and members of such other associations of individuals, by whatever name called existing in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions”. When Justice Okoi Itam, the Chairman of the Committee, submitted the report go Government on March 9, 2000, he confirmed what many people already suspected: that the problem of campus cults has become severe; that the menace has spread to Secondary Schools; and there now exist cult alumni groups in various cities.
The second component of the Law of survival is never to belong to any cult group. The probability of dying in campus is high as a member of a cult group. The third component of the law is never to be involved in violent clashes between different factions of unions, associations, or cults. This is where many students unnecessarily lose their lives or get seriously wounded.
