By Jet-Li Bololo
The A1 constituency is represented by Hon. Bello Abeeb Idowu a.k.a Idowest, A 200L petroleum engineering student, who is also a member of the Zik Hall House of Representatives. Discussing with a few floor members represented by him on his floor, some responses indicated how effective he has been, while others were of the view that there is a need to improve in certain areas on his level of activeness towards discharging his duties as the representative of each resident in the constituency.
AWARENESS
Francis Ikoi(A12), a 100L MBBS student, made it known how he came about the identity of the floor reps through popularity. “….I don’t really know his name, but I know he’s Idowu, like they call him Idowest so I believe his name is Idowu but I don’t know his surname.”,” he said.
Owoade Abdul Azeez living in A4, a 200L ASSE student, had a supporting opinion, in an interview with him where he mentioned how popular the identity of the floor rep is in the block. “…..Yeah, I know my floor rep, we do call him Idowest. He was part of the people I voted for when I was in my 100l.” He announced.
Olowu Daniel (A12) acknowledged the identity of the floor rep while speaking with the Zik Press correspondence. “…..Idowest, that’s what we call him. Personally, I think everybody knows him but I don’t know, I can’t speak for everyone, but he’s quite popular,” he stated.
However, Abdul Rauf (A9) expresses denial of the identity of the floor reps. “…. I don’t actually know him, I don’t know his name,” he commented.
An occupant of A15 who craved anonymity also had a supporting opinion to be oblivious of the identity of the floor reps.“….. I don’t know his name, but I think he’s Idowest, I don’t really know because I’m not the type that does really stay indoors, most times I don’t use to be around.” he said.
ACCESSIBILITY
On accessibility, Francis (A12) affirmed that Idowest, their floor rep is very approachable to everyone in the block. He explained;
…..I have had conversations with him like several times, and he appears to be, sometimes based on random stuff, something concerning issues affecting our floor, like why the toilet are always dirty, and putting out a solution on how to stop getting our dirty and all of that, because sometimes when we want to use the toilet, we found out that they are always filled up with human faeces so he had to come up with a suggestion that everybody should have a padlock. I believe he has been performing well in his duties. He’s approachable, When it comes to being approachable, he’s someone that’s very very approachable. He plays and likes interacting with people.
Posing a question to Azeez, regarding how accessible the floor rep is, he commented positively. ….“Yes, I think he’s like an approachable person, I have not seen anybody say anything bad about him”
Olowu Daniel (A12) acknowledged how accessible the floor rep is through how he reacts to issues that come up on the floor. “He’s very accessible, for instance, a toilet issue when someone was claiming that he will break down the toilet, and immediately he came out to solve the issue. He was the one that told us to lock the toilet when a lot of people were coming to spoil it. Apart from that, there was even a time, the woman was not washing the bathroom and immediately he solved it all.” he stated.
Abdul Rauf (A9) however, expresses a refusal to acknowledge the accessibility of the floor reps.“ ….I don’t think many people know him,” he commented.
The occupant of A15, who craved anonymity, corroborated the same view.“…. Because I don’t really know who he is, so when I don’t have light then, when we had a light issue, I went to meet Idowest so he said I should go and meet the Porter.” he announced.
MAINTENANCE OF FACILITIES
Francis(A12) Responses on how effective the floor rep has been in terms of maintenance of facilities of the floor was affirmative. “For me, I have not been having issues that I will need to call him, although when issues arise, they are more like the first set to find out and bring the issue to everyone and proffer solutions on how we can solve the issues. We have been using our toilets and it has been okay like since the beginning of the semester because we have our personal padlock to the toilet, all rooms have that too but about the kitchen we don’t use it because it’s not okay”. he explained.
Owoade Abdul Azeez(A4) was again affirmative of Idowest’s activeness in the maintenance of facilities. He said “This is Zik Hall. You know not everything at all here is actually right, but I think he is actually trying his best. If you look at the toilets on the left axis, you can see that there are padlocks there and the toilet is actually always neat also because that’s the one I use as I am in room 4. Speaking on the other side, if you check it out, it is just one that doesn’t have a key, while the others have and those keys are assigned rooms to each toilet and I think the particular one without a key is open for people to urinate on so that they will not urinate on the floor.”
Olowu Daniel (A12) was also affirmative on the floor reps maintenance of toilets and kitchenette and provided an instance where Idowest made maintenance efforts on his floor. He said “….Yes, The kitchen, I know that there was a time he told those Iya to sweep it and I think that’s just the only time I have seen but they were not cleaning it to date. To me, I think he’s effective.”
Abdul Rauf (A9) was however indecisive with Idowest’s maintenance efforts. He remarked, “I have not used the kitchen, I don’t really see his work, what I know is that the cleaners wash the toilet and most of the time it’s always clean, but it’s the work of the floor reps just to make them get the cleaning done.”
The occupant who desired anonymity expressed uncertainty regarding the floor rep maintenance efforts. He said,“….Because I don’t know him, so I don’t know. Had it been I know him now, it’s a different case, maybe I will try to look for who he is now, but for now I don’t know who he is.”
In a conversation with the Block A floor rep, Bello Abeeb Idowu, a student of petroleum engineering from the faculty of Technology, who’s also a member of the Zik Hall House of Representatives. In contrast to the opinion of some of the people who claimed not to be familiar with the floor rep, Idowest in his first statement claimed he’s not a popular person on his floor and later attested that he’s quite popular.
“I’m popular because I’ve once showed up at every door to make announcements to them about a particular issue affecting the whole floor and I told them I’m the floor rep of the A1 block. I’m surprised some people would have claimed not to have known me here.” Idowest claimed.
“Earlier, we had one padlock for the toilet and we shared the key between me and a guy there, whenever people want to use the toilet they’ll come to me or the guy for the key but there was a time someone broke the key, and messed up the gent, which caused a lot of controversies and I had to request for the people to get different keys and gave two rooms a key to use to put a stop to such incident from being repeated” Idowest revealed.
Also, in the further discussion concerning his effectiveness as an honourable floor rep and how he had been effectively carrying out his duties, Idowest gave his reasons why he asked the anonymous occupant of A(15) to go by himself to complain to the porter.
“What happened was that the person had already spoken to me about their room not having light when other rooms do, I have already reported their names down and he later came to my dm to ask me how has been the process, I told him to go and meet the porters to ask them when it’s going to be ready.” He cleared.
Asking Idowest how he has been able to carry out his duties concerning lights and other maintenance of the floor, Idowest claimed he has been trying his best by doing the needful in maintaining them.
“The main problem of this floor is usually electricity and the toilet, then my duty is to acknowledge the problems of each room and report to the porters, firstly, I usually advise them to not touch electrical appliances in their rooms, so they should report to me and I’ll report to the porter till they’ll bring repairer and not use their own, then I restrict them from touching the electrical room so as not to disrupt the electricity of the floor. Ever since we’ve made the padlocks decision we’ve not been having toilet issues and we are good.” He claimed.
