In a university whether public or private, faculty or faculties and departments are saddled with numerous responsibilities accompanied by high expectations and come with various challenges.
UniJos Echo commiserate with the entire Department of Marketing in the Faculty of Management Science who lost a great icon in person of Mr. John Kerrekkum Dongjur (Diolyit). He was born on the 13th February, 1974 to the family of late Lious Dongjur Kerrekkum and Martha Mabiat Dongjur of Ha’ambiak (Samiya) in Shendam L.G.A of Plateau State. He died on the 19th February, 2021 and was buried on 23rd of February, 2021.
The Department of Marketing have seen a different turn since Mr. John Dongjur came into the Department as a lecturer. Not only to staff but also to students. He was indeed a gentle man and a jolly good fellow. He was committed lecturer and a peacemaker; he will immensely be missed. Because of the unique love he shared while alive, we are consoled by these words Carson McCullers: “How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind”. Even though you are gone, you are still alive in our souls. Indeed, the loss is most traumatic and painful as the vacuum created cannot be filled.
Mr. John Dongjur (Diolyit) spent two years in the Department and yet he made a huge impact. He occupied the position of an examination officer, level co-coordinator (300 level) was a dynamic lecturer. His vibrant energy and impact would have been needed.
Despite all the challenges he was facing on his sick bed, he tried to make sure that he tried to do some little things that concerns the Department by tasking the students writing project under his supervision and making them bring their project work for correction and approval of the new and next chapter. Hence this act of commitment and dedication shown by the late Mr. John Dongjur should be expected from every lecturer in the department, faculty and the institution at large.
In order to give him his last respects, the Department decided to go on a mourning procession and cancelled all the activities in the Department the day he was laid to rest, and they made sure that they participated fully during the burial.
We need lecturers like Mr. John Dongjur in the University and Department of Marketing as a successor to continue from where Mr. John Dongjur has stopped. We solicit for a careful and transparent selection of an examination officer and a level coordinator (300 level) as a replacement to our dear John Dongjur.
We advise whosoever would take over his seat to follow the footprint left by the late Mr. John Dongjur, to stand firm in the Department while having the interest of both staff and students at heart.
