FAJ Boys and the "Stream of Life"

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FAJ Boys and the "Stream of Life"

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Over the years, poor water supply has become no strange event in the course of the students' residency in the Adekunle Fajuyu Hall of Residence.
 
Fajuyians, as it is expected of a premordial man, have invented several coping mechanisms to survive this lack of one of the elements of living. From coping with the usage of dirty and visibly unsafe water for bathing and even cooking, to painfully spending their upkeep money on the age of sachet water. Fajuyians have also discovered a new resource: The Stream of Life.
 
Fajuyians who previously frequented the neighboring Akintola Hall of Residence in search of water but have since been frustrated by the recent security measures put in place by the hall superiors for the worthy course of protecting "the girls. " "The boys" resulted in a water passage close to this hall of residence.
 

The Stream of Life, as it is fondly called by Fajuyians, is a small natural water supply in the gorge that separates the Fajuyi Hall of Residence and the Akintola Hall of Residence. 
 
The name of this brook on the OAU campus, "Stream of Life," succinctly narrates the desperation of the Fajuyians in getting water and their appreciation of this small water body.
 
"If you have tasted regular chlorine-concentrated FAJ water and then taste this, you will know why we call it the water of life." Lekan is a resident of FAjuyi Hall of Residence.
 
While this water is from a natural source, it does in no small way underline the precarious situation of students who have to spend their time and energy walking the distance and undergoing the strain of fetching water from this brook. 
 
Maybe the stream of life in many ways drains academic life from its patrons.

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