Africa 24 news

Two graduation ceremonies, in the hot sun, happened over the weekend on Saturday.

The institutions are Unimtech (University of Management and Technology) based in Freetown and Canadian college at Mile 91, north of Sierra Leone.

Thousands might have graduated from these two tertiary institutions on March, 9, 2024.

The graduates suffered in the hot-burning sun simply because the congregation ceremony was organized at “no-fit time” of the dry season instead of the cooler periods of the country’s climate.

But, even the old Fourah Bay College, nicknamed, as the Athens of West Africa hasn’t suitable time in the past, for holding graduation ceremonies.

FBC and its sister colleges, IPAM and COMAHS ( often have their  students graduating in the middle of the dry season.

And with graduates in their academic regalia, they are sweating profusely, something which always represents an imagery of neglect by the government and the university authorities.

It tells the graduating students of a lack of hope in a country where jobs are ghosts thing to talk.

The image is painted by the burning atmosphere of the sun students are allowed to get their congregations.

As soon as they graduate, simply a less regard is shown by authorities for the ones who supposed to be working as nurses, doctors, lawyers, electricians, crews, flight attendants, development experts, architects and journalists.

But governments, come and gone, are not creating jobs for new graduates.

The past government had bragged of employing many youth in mining sites, but that wasn’t enough for a nation which produces about a million graduates each year.

As the same rot situation exists in the present government, more and more graduates are expected to graduate from the University of Sierra Leone mainly comprising students of FBC, IPAM, and COMAHS.

But this year’s graduation could only happen so soon if the FBC and the education ministry’s ongoing debacle is finally resolved.

But can the university authorities and the ministry amend the academic calendar on the dates for graduation to be always organized in the light wet season, during half drop rains period when cooler temperatures are expected.