Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye: Rt. Honourable Kayode Bamisile Dismissed From Great Ife or Not?

Bamisile

‘The hottest places in hell are reserved for those, whom, in the era of moral crises, remains silence’-Danthy Allegieri.

Good people of Ekiti State, I deem it fit, sarcosant and imperative to coin this piece for the sake of history and posterity, and to set the record straight.
Sometimes in the out-going month of December, the former Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Rt. Honourable Kayode Bamisile, without a dint of fear, explodes to the world and to those who cares to listen, that, their was no time he was expelled from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (OAU) otherwise known as Great Ife. Here are the affirmations of Bamisile then, while speaking with the Nigerian Compass Newspaper: ‘Their was no time i was dismissed from OAU for stealing six fire extinguishires. I was never rusticated from OAU. I left OAU willignlly when my father died in 1988 as a result of financial incapacitations’.
Country people, my investigation to this saga, however, shows that the affirmation of Bamisile while speaking with the Nigerian Compass Newspaper, was an ‘Outstanding Fallacy from the Constituency of Hell’.
Bamisile, was indeed dismissed from OAU in 1987 for examinations mal-practice, and not for stealing, as was being alleged.
Here is the transcript of the letter dated 6th May, 2008 written by the Deputy Registrar of OAU, F.E Ajayi (Mrs) to the Clerk of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr. Famoyegun.
‘Re: Request for Information- Rt. Hon. Olufemi Bamisile
Please refer to your letter reference EKHA/ADM/481/02 of 23rd April, 2008 on the above subject matter.
In your letter, you requested for information on Rt. Hon. Olufemi Bamisile. This is to inform you that we searched our records and have no details about any Olufemi Bamisile and Robert Olufemi Bamisile.
We only have records on Bamisile Olufemi Olawale as our ex-student. It is on this ex-student that we reeport as follows:
1. Our investigation confirmed that one Bamisile Olufemi Olawale was admitted into University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) to read Political science in the Faculty of Social Sciences in 1984/85 session with Registration No 842215.
2. His academic records could be traced up to part 111 1986/87 Harmattan and rain Semester examination result. There was no further information as regards his academics beyond part 111.
3. Bamisile Olufemi was found guilty of cheating in an examination. He was caught copying from prepared notes and bringing prepared answer scripts into the examination hall. He defended himself before a disciplinary Board for Examinations and other academic Matters. The Board however found him guilty, and he was thereafter dismissed from the Univesity via letter reference R.DAA/EO/14C of 10th February, 1988.
4. Further information from our records indicated that this Bamisile attended Mayflower School, Ikenne from 1978-1980 and Government College, Eriemoore, Lagos from 1980 – 1983 for his Secondary School Education. For his Advanced Level Course, he attended Federal School of Arts and Social Sciences, lagos between 1983 and 1984.
Thank you.
F.E Ajayi (Mrs)
Deputy Regisrar,
Examinations and Records.
For: Registrar.
I sincerely hope that this article will do a decent burial to the hues and cries about whether the Rt. Hon. Kayode Bamisile was dismised from the Great Ife or not.

Bamisile’s dismissal letter

The uploaded document is the copy of the letter written to the Clerk of the Ekiti State House of Assembly by the authority of the Obafemi Awolowo University, dated 6th May, 2008.


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Maxwell , a Public Affairs Analyst, writes in defence of Truth and Morality from Lagos, Nigeria.
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