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Who is the next NUGS president? My take…
I wrote this piece to give my perspective about the ongoing controversy surrounding who the next NUGS president is. I have read the piece written by one Manasseh Azure Awuni titled “WHO IS THE NEXT NUGS PRESIDENT?” published on 25th August 2009 on www.myjoyonline.com. Mr. Awuni was indeed the chairman of a vetting committee and I find his piece interesting. In actual fact, there were two vetting committees involved in the 43RD Annual Delegates Congress of the National Union of Ghana Students. The first one was constituted by NEC and the second was constituted by Congress which was chaired by the author of the aforementioned article. Article 60 clause (a) of NUGS constitution states that Without prejudice to any provision of this constitution, any student aspiring to any position shall be subjected to a vetting by a 7 member committee formed by NEC with approval of CC before congress (Note 1: National Executive Committee or NEC is composed of National President, National General Secretary, National Treasurer, Press and Information Secretary, Coordinating Secretary and President/Representative of component blocs in NUGS) & (Note 2: Central Committee or CC comprises of National Officers and Bloc Representatives, NUGS Representatives on International Bodies, SRC Presidents, SRC Secretaries, Local NUGS Presidents, Local NUGS Secretaries, Women’s Commissioners). The first vetting committee was duly formed by NEC but without the approval of CC hence, its results was quashed or rejected. However, it made very damning revelations about some of the aspirants which subsequently led to their disqualification from the race. For instance, one Wonder Madilo was disqualified on the basis that he was unfit to aspire for the presidential position as stipulated by article 70 clause (a) which states that Aspirants contesting for the position of National President, National General Secretary, National Treasurer and Education and Democratization Secretary shall be full-time students of member institution who have completed at least one academic year and have one more academic year to complete their programmes of pursuit. Wonder Madilo per the checks conducted by the aforementioned vetting committee had completed a degree program with Green Hill College. However he had applied for a sixteen week post graduate course with GIMPA. Interestingly, he had gained admission but took his admission letter the very day the vetting committee was making its background checks on him. Mr. Wonder Madilo appeared before the vetting committee with a letter of admission dated 10th August 2009 from the Academy of Business Administration. The admission letter indicated that Mr. Madilo must pay his fees by 6th August 2009 to be a student even though the letter was dated 10th August 2009. Again, as stipulated by article 72, aspiring candidates shall be nominated by their institution and seconded by five (5) CC members from separate institutions from different blocs. However, it is still unclear which institution nominated him. The vetting committee having been overwhelmed with this “wonderful” mystery, decided to disqualify Wonder Madilo on the basis which should be clear to you by now.

Some delegates mainly Friends of Wonder (FoW) petitioned the judicial board against the constitutionality of the vetting committee. Concomitantly, the judicial board nullified the vetting committee and its findings. Congress then formed a new vetting committee which was chaired by Mr. Manasseh Azure Awuni. Even though some delegates questioned if indeed congress had the constitutional mandate to form a vetting committee but be that as it may, a new vetting committee was formed. There were speculations that it was going to be a “WHOLE SALE” vetting. The Manasseh led committee failed to get any information about all forty one aspirants before the vetting. The committee spent between five to thirteen minutes for an aspirant. “They asked me to tell them about myself” said one of the aspirants. This aspirant (she) believed the vetting was a charade. Predictably and not surprisingly all the aspirants who attended the vetting were passed through. Even Wonder Madilo who was constitutionally unfit as stated by the unconstitutionally constituted vetting committee passed through. Another issue that came up was whether he voted as a delegate from Ghana Institute of Journalism or GIMPA.

After all the machinations at the congress, Mr. Madilo led by EIGHT votes against the runner up Anthony Abotsi Afriyie. The Electoral Commission was suppose to declare provisional results before congress but due to the grand scheming delegates left as soon as they finished voting. Strangely, I hear the declaration was done on Radio Ghana. The sitting president I hear is parading radio stations introducing Mr. Madilo as president elect.

I must therefore emphasize here that many forward looking student leaders are not satisfied with the fact that a non student wants to lead them for the next academic year. There are others who are pleased because of their political empathy with Mr. Madilo. The judgment is for you to make if indeed WONDER MADILO can be the next NUGS President.

IBRAHIM FAISAL

FORMER SRC PRESIDENT

ZENITH COLLEGE

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