*STUDENT UNION GOVERNMENT,*
*FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES, DELTA STATE*
*TEAM EGALITARIAN '18 BRIEF PROGRESS REPORT 2017/2018
ACADEMIC SESSION*
Aluta greetings in the name of the struggle that
accommodates the major electorates of our dear country Nigeria.
The Team Egalitarian '18 led by Comr. Ohanwe Emmanuel. I.
find this as an obligation and responsibility to present this report before you
to fulfill the "accountability" promise in our manifesto even as our
reign draw to an end.
We sincerely appreciate the mandate given to us to steer
this year's academic ship and your support so far, you all have indeed been a
backbone and pillar to our unprecedented success.
It could be recalled that the Team Egalitarian '18 was the
first government since the history of FUPRE to celebrate "A 100days in
office" even when the school was on strike and students at home, this was
celebrated with alot of achievements recorded on that day of celebration, 13th
Jan. 2018, for detailed info on the achievements of Team Egalitarian '18 within
100 days please download the document through the link below:
https://www.fupreblog.com/2018/01/fupre-sug-first-100-days-in-office.html?m=1
We have chosen to be cultured in our dealings and we only
speak when it is necessary to speak, in the face of destructive criticism,
character assassination and casting of aspersions we have chosen to maintain
orderliness and civility, responding when need be.
This Team have achieved alot in the face of acute shortage
of resources, delay in inaugurating the Student House of Assembly and Student
Judiciary Council.
Our power of engagement, constructive and modern tactics of
negotiation have kept peace on campus, most of the agitations and struggle have
been won through biros and round table discussions, we have upheld the peace
ambassadorship not neglecting when to act.
In order not to make a long epistle of the giant strides of
this team, I will quickly be stating a concise report of every office. Find
below:
*MANIFESTOES PROMISED*
- To ensure representation of students in the management
Students Disciplinary Committee (SDC)
- Procurement of mosquito nets
- Radio
station i.e FUPRE FM
- Administrative
efficiency
- Relaxation
Centre
- Environmental
Assessment
- Summer
school
From the manifesto above, we scored 4/6 and that's a
passmark in the face of acute challenge and unfavourable condition. Relaxation
centre and radio station were blockaded. Read below
*STUDENT HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY*
This arm had three leadership through at her reign, the present
leadership is led by Rt. Hon. Ibrahim - the acting speaker, this arm had a
rough start because of its delayed inauguration. They're short of two members
making them 18 honourables.
Below are the few things they've done
- They approved a laudable capital project for the
President- One they feel will serve the true needs of the Students.
- They've also
put in place measures to ensure proper auditing of all the approved funds
withdrawn from the Union's purse.
- In the brief
time they've been on board, we've successfully managed to show to the students
that FUPRE politics is no longer business as usual.
- They've have
fought all corrupt practices as best they could, and have also brought
defaulters to book.
- The 7th
Legislative arm of the Students' Union is successfully reviving and amending
the Union's constitution as deemed fit, making corrections to all loopholes in
the process. This is an achievement previous Legislative arms could only dream
of.
- They have
also modified the manner in which students representatives of ISEC are chosen
which was laissez-faire. From henceforth, any student who wishes to be a member
of ISEC must be certified to be a bonafide representative who has been elected
by his or her constituency. Thus, they must come with a letter of consent from
their various departmental presidents.
*OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER*
Comr. Solomon Ayodugokorogha was duly elected to occupy this
position.
The office of the PRO is the closest office to the students
and have given students a sense of belonging.
- This office for the first time in history increased the
number of 100l students who applied for scholarship, given them technical
assistance to registration, improving awareness, helping them obtain necessary
documents needed from the school authority with the power of the union.
- This office
have also stopped the defacing of the University walls by mandating all
publications to get an approval from the PRO office with intimacy of the CSO.
*OFFICE OF THE SOCIAL DIRECTOR*
Comr. Adamu Bryan was duly elected to occupy this position
and assisted by Comr. Mbonu Mac Raphael.
This office was able to break the norm of the office of DOS
becoming inactive after First semester, this is the first time a DOS is doing
any public activity in second semester in the history of FUPRE.
Some of the events organised are as follows :
- Welcome back concert
- Fupre campus
cinema
- Bringing of
major comedians to matriculation party.
- First time
major headliners performed in FUPRE
- Producing
Fupres next top comedian via competition and given them a stake in the comedy
terrain.
- Upcoming
open mic cafe, jazz night September
- Upcoming
Fawa awards
- Upcoming
connect concert with major entertainers in Nigeria, date unconfirmed
*OFFICE OF THE SPORTS DIRECTOR*
Comr. Ferdinand was duly elected to occupy this position and
assisted by Comr. Obi Gabriel.
This office have refused to be tagged "debtors" as
fuprites have always tagged previous governments, all awards, medals and cash
prizes were presented when due to the rightful players. Officials have in
series of games smiled at this office and have created a relationship with this
office.
This office have also widened sports to accommodate other
athletics and not just football, also involving females in games.
Some of the games
organized were
- Inter level football competition
- Inter Tribal
cup
- Inter school
Friendlies
- Founders Day
competition
- Religious
cup (First of its kind)
- Vice
chancellor's sports festival.
Other sports activities they added include:
- VC sports festival
- Football
- Volleyball
- Basketball
- Athletics
- Marathon
race
- Chess
- Takwando
- Scrabble
etc.
*OFFICE OF THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY*
Comr. Nganji Christopher was duly elected to occupy this
position.
This office supported the course of the Zenith ATM and is
still solving financial problems as to loan and transaction error as to ATM. He
did the following :
- Operation remita simplicity
- Increasing
the tribal association fund
*OFFICE OF THE WELFARE DIRECTOR*
Comr. Donj was duly elected to occupy this position.
This office have been so workaholic, this office has no time
to spare, he can be called by 12am to attend to critical issues, it's the
bedrock of students experience in campus. This office works so much in hand
with the office of the president to ensure maximum
- This office ensured the reversal of campus transport fare
from #70 to #50
- This office ensured maximum and quick intervention to
issues both within and outside the campus, there was no case of any student
being stabbed to death as a case of community fight or molestation, this is due to constant communication and
visits to the various security posts in and outside the university premises.
- This office also agitated for the procurement of sanitary
items, waste bins and cleaning equipments on campus by the management committee
on Environmental Sanitation and Inspection Team (ESIT).
- This office have also ensured with the help of the
president that Students remanded in police station don't spend two days under
detention.
- This office
have been up and doing to ensure that the president is kept posted on
developments and shortcomings.
- This office
ensured that the poles are made available for students in hostels.
*OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL*
Comr. Umoke Charles was duly elected to occupy this
position.
This office ensured stress free final year clearance and
also the allocation of union hall for programs.
*OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT*
This is the first time a Vice president will be active in
first semester or organize any program in first semester, he's the second in
command in the union, for the first time the SUG dinner night of FUPRE featured
managers of industries and SUG presidents in other institutions, some of the
notable events organised:
- Operation feed fupre program (first of its kind) where
students were fed for two days.
- Ultimate
search
- Marathon
race
- A successful
Student week with massive turnouts.
*OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT*
This is the number one man of the Student Union Government
who gives approval to all activities and engagements except for exceptional
activities. All the offices are accountable to him and He's also accountable to
the masses.
The success of every office is directly or indirectly tied
to the office of the president, he represents students before the management
and is asked to defend any proposal from the student to the management.
*MANIFESTOES PROMISED*
- To ensure representation of students in the management
Students Disciplinary Committee (SDC)
- Procurement of mosquito nets
- Radio
station i.e FUPRE FM
- Administrative
efficiency
- Relaxation
Centre
- Environmental
Assessment
- Summer
school
From the manifesto above, we scored 4/6 and that's a
passmark in the face of acute challenge and unfavourable condition. Relaxation
centre and radio station were blockaded. Read below
*ACHIEVEMENTS*
- Ensure to click on the link below to download the
achievements of 100 days in office
https://www.fupreblog.com/2018/01/fupre-sug-first-100-days-in-office.html?m=1
- Presently the student union president is a member of the
Student Disciplinary Committee(SDC) and have witnessed five cases of students
which he ensured that a fair judgement was passed on the student as a
representative.
- The radio
station was designed to be the Union capital project from abinitio because of
the initial 5km free broadcasting limit by BON, 8 willing students were
recruited and formed a committee that planned the airing, order of programs and
regulation, they already contracted a staff from kpoko FM to train our students
to manage the stage and air professionally, but we received a shocking news of
a recent policy that 5km free licensing is cancelled and henceforth campus
radios will purchase license amounting to 2.5million naira, our treasury
advised us to have a change in plan.
- Teeter-tooter
water dispenser was invariably used as a capital project to solve the water
crisis in boys Hostel B2, students can now have water even when there's no
light.
- The
relaxation centre was never aimed to be our "capital project", we
designed it to be our "attracted project", we started pursuing this
project even before we were inaugurated, started the pursuit from 13th August,
2017, recall that we were elected 9th August, 2017, this project was sent to
Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa - the executive governor of Delta state on
November, 2017, we resolved that it mustn't be DELSU each time the governor
will want to build a monument for the students, we got positive response of how
the governor minuted it to various offices for input and how he was concerned
about it, quite unfortunate that the day we were suppose to do the ground
breaking ceremony of the project we realized that the council couldn't give a
land for this purpose. You can visit the union secretariat to request for the
25page document sent to the governor and have a feel of the robust content. We
hope our successors bring this dream to limelight as we will assist them with
the necessary contacts.
- Fixing of
the union bus after being abandoned for two sessions, was another goal,
- Environmental
assessment in line with Environmental Sanitation Inspection Team which the
president is a member of, hostels were constantly assessed informally and
hostel governors were occasionally interrogated, this brought about waste bins
round the school.
- Procurement
of nets, even when the state government said it wasn't possible we got it in
our own way and we still anticipate second batch.
- ATM
installation, after the long outreach and perseverance, having appointments
with different banks, we were able to solidify our reach on zenith, you can
request the document of our meeting with Zenith and Gt bank from the union
secretariat.
- Reroofing of
Ugbomro hostel, this was handled early this session following the proposal
defence before the Prochancellor and
members of the University governing council.
- Regular
clearing of grasses, the campus have taken a new and green look due to the
recommendation given to the management to weed twice in a month, it has never
been so.
- agitation
for the FUPRE act, media houses, newspapers, the president was severally called
upon by media houses to speak on the FUPRE act, a protest was staged, led by
the president for this purpose.
- The summer
school was pursued with all energy and optimism, the management requested we
get an approval from NUC, that without NUC approval we can't float such a
program in a Federal University and this held it down as other federal
universities aren't into it.
- lecture free
week, we considered the effect on students performance and even in the face of
a tight calendar and the management stiff position on their decision, we were
able to project the students' heartbeat.
- We were able
to organize a skill acquisition program to give career alternative to students,
bringing in TIC and NDE who hunt for skillful students to empower them.
- Through the
SA to president on academics and career related issues we organised tutorials
at the tail end of first semester to enhance students' performance.
- No school
fees no exam policy, this became a national policy amongst universities, many
universities were shut down while some withdrew their students because of
inability to pay school fees but Team Egalitarian '18 resolved it without a
scratch on the wall. There are many more achievements we won't be sharing for
the length of this post.
*FAILED MOVEMENTS*
- Visit to Senate President of Nigeria - Sen. Olubukola
Saraki, our letters were endorsed by the office of the Senate President of
Nigeria, we were armed with our proposals to better the future of fuprites but
unforeseen circumstances hindered it, we are open to debriefing on how we made
our way to him.
- Visit to observe sitting at the National Assembly, this
also didn't work out becuse it was done simultaneously with Saraki movement.
- Visit to
State minister of Petroleum, this did not go through because of timing. Etc.
*RELATIONSHIPS*
Team Egalitarian '18 leveraged on relationships to better
lives of our students though not all paid.
- We have on several occasions leveraged on the relationship
with the DPO to release our students detained via phone calls not to spend more
than a night.
- Leveraged on
our external relationships to obtain mosquito nets for students.
- Leveraged on
relationship with the media
- leveraged on
relationship to attract Technological incubation Centre a parastatal of Federal
ministry of education that sponsors and accommodate student inventors and
entrepreneurs.
- leveraged on
management relationship to set up a Student Soft Loan Facility (SSLF) in
conjunction with faculty associations which will be open to loan for students
*APPRECIATION*
We appreciate JCCF for their undying support, all tribal
associations for their efforts, all departmental heads, faculty heads and
Course reps, we appreciate the management for heeding to our request and having
a mutual understanding with the union.
I won't forget to appreciate my appointees for their
proactiveness and willingness to serve, their advice and assistance is priceless,
the speaker of the 7th legislative arm and the chief judge, we have always
agreed to disagree, my executives for standing by me in the face of trial,
Special thanks to the General fuprites who have supported
morally, financially and otherwise.
*CONCLUSIONS*
Glory to God that no life was lost during our regime. Before
humanity we have delivered the dividends of democracy, we wish our successors
the best and pray they don't pass though the rough terrain we passed through.
Signed
Comr. Ohanwe Emmanuel. I. (GCUF)
SUG President, FUPRE
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