While attending a youth conference organized by the East African Community in Kampala early this month, the President of Makerere University Students’ Union who happens to be from Kenya surprised me when he asked whether Moi University has a recognized Students’ Union or the Administration couples as one.
He went further to claim we, the Moi University Students, owe our peaceful existence to the power that be that’s why most of these things pass us unnoticed.
In a nutshell, what he simply meant was that there is nothing like Moi University Students’ Union commonly known as MUSO in his vocabulary. What really exist are Unions within the larger union which has really suffocated the latter.
At first, his argument to me exposed his raw instincts that refused to be tempered with civic responsibility and power balance. If he were in Kenya, he could have been said to be drank with power. But later on, I realized he meant well for us, he spoke his mind fully.
For starters, MUSO as an organization is dysfunctional. It has been ran with wimps and those who doubt their self-confidence beyond the doors of LT3 where booing and heckling take the centre stage. Its coded leadership operations have been louder in self-interest as it tramples on higher ideals of a society like justice and fair representation.
Panting like magicians charmed by the fatty testicles of a prized ram, the UNION LEADERSHIP, from Mombasa campus to Odera Akong’o campus have perfected the art of seclusion especially when issues to do with finance are brought forth. Nothing explained this much like the HELB episodes some months ago.
It is the only Union which has fully operationalized the theoretical concept of election and campaign. In this theory, the campaign promises are usually big and brash, so logic is often phantom limb when it comes to crafting them. The rule of basic common sense is immediately poured scorn on and what follow are guess works and trial and error practices.
Tell me who can lawfully within the prism of our constitution speak on behalf of all these comrades who form the membership of this moribund Union? None and if you think otherwise, ask Dikembe or maybe Mohamed Doyo.
The constitution review commission knew this too well that’s why there work ended by appending their signature after receiving Ksh.10, 000 as allowances. Let nobody fool you, MUSO HAS GOT owners but comrades are always right in their own thinking. Right to think MUSO is theirs. To think so is total rubbish or stark madness to paraphrase leader of majority Adan Duale.
The only rescue route available for revamping this union is actually destabilizing the presumed ownership and unifying the caucus from Mombasa campus to Kitale sub-branch. We need an overall Secretary General and Chairman with powers to supervise and direct other members.
But from the kind of names being floated, we will still play second fiddle to Makerere, Nairobi, and Maseno and even may be Kanga High School Students’ Association!
People who understand this Union ought to come out show direction. But left to the toddlers…the Union will be bitten to the pulp once again.
The writer is a former Secretary General of The 3rd Eye.
He went further to claim we, the Moi University Students, owe our peaceful existence to the power that be that’s why most of these things pass us unnoticed.
In a nutshell, what he simply meant was that there is nothing like Moi University Students’ Union commonly known as MUSO in his vocabulary. What really exist are Unions within the larger union which has really suffocated the latter.
At first, his argument to me exposed his raw instincts that refused to be tempered with civic responsibility and power balance. If he were in Kenya, he could have been said to be drank with power. But later on, I realized he meant well for us, he spoke his mind fully.
For starters, MUSO as an organization is dysfunctional. It has been ran with wimps and those who doubt their self-confidence beyond the doors of LT3 where booing and heckling take the centre stage. Its coded leadership operations have been louder in self-interest as it tramples on higher ideals of a society like justice and fair representation.
Panting like magicians charmed by the fatty testicles of a prized ram, the UNION LEADERSHIP, from Mombasa campus to Odera Akong’o campus have perfected the art of seclusion especially when issues to do with finance are brought forth. Nothing explained this much like the HELB episodes some months ago.
It is the only Union which has fully operationalized the theoretical concept of election and campaign. In this theory, the campaign promises are usually big and brash, so logic is often phantom limb when it comes to crafting them. The rule of basic common sense is immediately poured scorn on and what follow are guess works and trial and error practices.
Tell me who can lawfully within the prism of our constitution speak on behalf of all these comrades who form the membership of this moribund Union? None and if you think otherwise, ask Dikembe or maybe Mohamed Doyo.
The constitution review commission knew this too well that’s why there work ended by appending their signature after receiving Ksh.10, 000 as allowances. Let nobody fool you, MUSO HAS GOT owners but comrades are always right in their own thinking. Right to think MUSO is theirs. To think so is total rubbish or stark madness to paraphrase leader of majority Adan Duale.
The only rescue route available for revamping this union is actually destabilizing the presumed ownership and unifying the caucus from Mombasa campus to Kitale sub-branch. We need an overall Secretary General and Chairman with powers to supervise and direct other members.
But from the kind of names being floated, we will still play second fiddle to Makerere, Nairobi, and Maseno and even may be Kanga High School Students’ Association!
People who understand this Union ought to come out show direction. But left to the toddlers…the Union will be bitten to the pulp once again.
The writer is a former Secretary General of The 3rd Eye.
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