Agony Of A 91 Year-Old Widow Who Government Refused To Return Her School

Few weeks ago, Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, received an unexpected guest. The visitor, Mrs. Roseline Ololo, 91, defied heavy rain to register her grievance at the state’s seat of power.
 
It was Monday, being first working day when the governor and the rest of the workers were busy with their chores at the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa.

Since Governor Ambode assumed office on May 29, 2015, he has being receiving countless of visitors who have been coming on different missions. But the visit of Mrs Ololo from the look of things was different; it touched his heart and those of government officials and visitors present. The reason was that the woman, a widow and an educationist, was earnestly seeking for the return of her ceased school.

The nonagenarian and her lawyer, Mr. Malcolm Omirhobo, and a pocket of protesters stormed the governor’s office to register their protest over the non release of Metropolitan College, Isolo, Lagos, to her as directed in 2001 by the former governor of the state Bola Tinubu.

The protest which was carried out in the rain started from the state Ministry of Education and ended at the governor’s office with the protesters carrying placards with different inscriptions denouncing the state government for not returning the college to the widow 39 years after it was seized by the then military government of the state.

The protesters, numbering over 50, including the daughter of the woman, Mrs. Chidinma Nwandu, chanted anti-government songs, displaying the placards for government officials, workers and visitors to see and read.

Some of the inscriptions on the placards read: “Give back Metropolitan and Isolo Secondary School back to Mama Ololo,” “Justice for Mama Ololo,” “Stop double standard,” “Lagos State Government, obey the rule of law and release the school to Mama,” “Your Excellency, please be responsive” and “Stop discrimination against females.”

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