LET US JOIN HANDS: AN ALUMNUS INVITES YOU ALL ....

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Dear Friends,

As we pass through this hour of crisis at our alma mater it is time we join hands and work together for redeeming the college from the clutches of power mongers and boot lickers. While our seniors are engaged in legal and administrative battle to bring back sanity into the campus, let us start renewing our solidarity towards the noble cause.


I humbly remind everyone of you the Candle Lighting ceremony we all had towards the end of our study in our college. I urge you to sit back and remember that evening when you and I walked the corridors of our great Main Hall reminiscing the past and dreaming about the future. Like you and I, millions of our friends have crossed those corridors to be the torch bearers of this world. I remind you the oath we all took on that day. I remind you the promise every one of you made on that day. You and I promised that we will shine like those candles. We promised that we will be the light whenever and wherever there is darkness. My friends, I gently remind you now that the darkness has encompassed the very same campus where we promised to be torchbearers.


Friends, we are what we are today, because of our great institution. Our college taught us to be religious, but not religious fanatics. Our college taught us to be rebels, but at no point it taught us to be violent. Our college taught us to think and to be free. You might belong to any religion, but our college taught us to be a human being first before we were affiliated to any religion. Today I see the power mongers who try to usurp power at the college are those who never formed part the great tradition of our college. They never studied in our college, even if some of them had studied; they never learnt anything from our tradition. They can never understand what we stand for. We, the great tradition of American college, stand for FREEDOM. We stand for Religious, emotional, cultural and economic freedom.


Friends, let me urge you where ever you are and whichever religion you belong to, to pray for these power mongers. Please pray for them for their health. Please pray for them for their families. Please also pray for them to realize and repent for what they are doing. Please pray for them so that they realize that their lust for money, power and position compromises the 125 years of tradition this college. Please pray for them to realize their mistakes so that our children and children’s children can enjoy the liberal education we received in this institution.


I sincerely hope and pray that when the reverend bishop stands in the pulpit to preach the gospel, the vision of Jesus whipping the power mongers out of the Jerusalem church appear before him. I hope and pray that the bishop and his illegal occupants and their boot-lickers when they go to church on a Sunday they realize that they have set a bad example of Christianity. I pray to god that the visions of the great Missionaries starting from Rev. Zumbro to Rev. Paul Love appear before them to remind them what the American College stands for.


May I urge all of you who are reading our posts to please write a line or two to show your solidarity so that the morale of our soldiers on the ground is boosted? May I urge whoever you are and whatever you are doing to please come forward and join hand with us in fighting the darker forces? Along with your monitory contribution we need your voice to carry our fight forward.


JOHN PAUL ANBU


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