Attending medical school in Nigeria at least from my own experience is very traumatic with potentially severe physical, psychological and emotional side effects. The examinations could be very toxic made up of several hours of intensive objective and essay papers; practicals, and sometimes oral examinations.
Although these examinations are seasonal, the enormous workload, hours of preparation and sleepless nights that go into them are many times neutralized or deflated by underwhelming results which could mean ordinary passes, resists, repeats or outright withdrawals for some. Most times, the objective styled examinations are littered with abundant booby traps otherwise called banana peels. The penalty for getting questions wrong in many schools could be very severe resulting in the deduction of half or a whole mark for every wrong answer.
Our lecturers used to justify such measures by saying stuff like a patient's chances of living or dying under our care was not to be left to chance and guess work. If we guessed and did so wrongly, we would get the hammer of deduction. The truth is that we never really guessed for all the questions we got wrong; some wrong answers may have been actually given out of conviction that they were right or they were in fact correct but wrong on the examiners marking template.
Anyway, the standards were set very high and we always had to adjust. However, not a few still fell by the wayside and were asked to withdraw from the medical school program for failing to satisfy the examiners and perhaps repeatedly failing examinations. It was always about life or death for us.
If the bar to permit the graduation of medical students who would eventually be entrusted with delivering babies, opening craniums, handling schizophrenics and withstanding radiation among other tasks can be raised so high; how much more the simple matter of presiding over the affairs of 100+ million people belonging to an array of tribal, ethnic, religious and social groups.
Why do a people who claim to be intelligent and educated degenerate to primordial existence and dictated to by religious fraudsters before making their judgement on identifying who ought to govern our land come 2015? They say we shouldn't vote for Buhari because he plans to Islamize Nigeria; the same lines they have been using since he joined politics. They used it in 2011 and hoodwinked many to line up blindly behind the one who had no shoes. This is 4 years later and many have fled their homes with some scattered to mere cells and tissue leaving their footwears behind. Many of those who carry weapons in uploaded BH videos are seen running around without shoes. A policy to provide shoes for every Nigerian could have halted insurgency I think.
Four years later and they have not performed but are singing the same tune about an Islamic agenda as if there are no Muslims in their party. How do they know the difference between the Islam practiced by Buhari and that done by Nuhu Ribadu?
I will attempt to unearth as many reasons why Goodluck and Patience should not be returned as president; this is now about life and death. Buhari is a necessary intervention at this hour and we must charge with him to pull down every exalted high place of corruption and impunity.
JOA
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