Some undiscountable previous experience?

Thereabouts of 1998 students-staff ratios were about 7 times what it should be and issues in development and religion were already raised. " They" said "don't worry, go we would handle it". By nearly a decade later with ratios tripling and workers stomping around on pays that brought out the "big pay" palaver(one-sixth of one's earlier thirty years pay) and religious authorities having seen nothing to change in their approaches but to warn one to mind some other business(even though the three-crowned oil-palm tree in "three-hearted town"-Obiato- bears witness that they would be there when a Petroleum Engineer would be called to witness how it could be solved mean what?