We Should Not Take Review Process for Granted

by FREDRICK ODERO

As the review team reached the most important and critical point on Wednesday at NCT 8, receiving presentations from various associations, media groups, religious groups and fellow comrades, there was need for us to be serious with the entire process.

This should have been the ‘NCT 8 acid test’ for the review team though none of the twelve 25th SGC MUSO officials attended the meeting despite the fact that they had been officially invited.

Need for unity

The review process must seek and create greater unity and not more divisions. There is nothing that will influence its ability to reconstruct and develop MUSO.

The Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) is committed to making laws that would enable all its (MUSO) members to work together across ethnic, gender, regional and political divides.

The search for unity and reconciliation is the priority of the CRC, and it must remain an indelible principle as we draft this constitution.

The new (MUSO) constitution which is being drafted is to make unprecedented demands for transparency and accountability in the management of MUSO affairs, and ensuring that public participation is critical in decision making. All these we must achieve as intellectuals in this institution.

Continuing struggle

We need to be alert, of course to the fact that the drafting of a new constitution in this university is only part of a continuing struggle for a better, freer and more equal MUSO representation. We salute those fallen comrades and we also pray for those whose daily lives involve a valiant struggle to cope with damages sustained while fighting for comradeship.

As comrades, whatever we do, we should not allow unhealthy debates to become the excuse that polarizes the MUSO institution and extends the argument that the new document being drafted will neither be passed at council nor work.

Greater reward

As comrades, we must understand that nothing can promise greater reward than reforms. We need to be prepared to pay the ultimate price of seeing our dream come true.

The Constitution Review Commission is appealing for calmness, sincerity, and gentleness to enhance effective presentation of these constitutional proposals.

With the new MUSO constitution, we will be able to redeem ourselves from a troubled and dark past.

This is why we must not take the process for granted.

Odero is the Spokesperson of the Muso Constitutional Review Commission.