NATIONAL UNION OF GHANA STUDENTS' (NUGS) IN CRISIS!

For quiet sometime now, the mention of the National Union of Ghana Students' (NUGS)at any students gathering arouses such a hatred feeling among some students that one is compelled to harsh or shush in such times.

Some students' too resort to flagrant saddling of the Union with insults upon the other for glossing over it's responsibilities towards students in the country.

I have been in a gathering where people snapped, scorned and hooted at the President of the Union, Mr. Wonder Madilo for his alleged alliance with the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC),the tension within the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Union and among his own Executive Officers.

Today, the Union finds itself in a "time-bound bomb" and well prepared "tension", between the President, Mr. Wonder Madilo and the NUGS representative to the All-African Students' Union (AASU) Mr. Abdul Karim.

The internal power struggle in the Union is so potent to cause such a huge breakdown of structures as to hamper the Union from accomplishing its' "lack of focus" agenda. There were reports of Wonder using his own "power" to write a letter of withdrawal of Karim as the NUGS representative to AASU.

This became a "grand debate" during the last Central Committee meeting on 30 May, 2010 at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) as a round-up to the National Congress in August this year.

Surprising to know that, the house was divided not on issues bordering on the welfare and common weal of the Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Students' of this "impoverished" country but rather on "trivial but significant" issues of impeachment and financial malfeasance on the part of both Karim and Wonder.

Truth be that, the internal wrangling between the caucuses of Karim and Wonder borders on a very bone-core issue which if not well detonated, can explode the already defunct and malfunctioned body - NUGS.

To some, the power struggling is an issue that has to do with the AASU Secretary from Nigeria, Mr. Ogunlala who alleges Karims "clandestine agenda" to relieve him of his long-served position as a result of Karims interest to be the AASU Secretary.

Today, fellow Ghanaians, as the National Union of Ghana Students' (NUGS) gets prepared for its' last Central Committee (CC) meeting on the 17, July, 2010 at Winneba, you and me cannot begin to imagine the kind of preparation being made in both camps to display their last vestige of power at Winneba as the finale of their bottomed-down anger against each other.

If i were to advise both camps, it will be that, the Union is greater than their individual and egoistic interest and again about the fact that, they cannot begin to imagine how the Union would have fared in the face of the Ghanaian populace had each of them invested their "bottomed-down anger" into helping the Union achieve its establishing aims and objectives.

NUGS is already saddled with magnitudes of challenges whose whirlpool has swept the current Executive Officers making them loose focus and direction.

Like my other colleague Student Leaders, the difficulty of the Union is a cutting one and which calls for an effective leadership with damaging tenacity to call the bluff. Anything short of this...




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