NUESA MIRROR: Corruption in our departmental and faculty leadership
Sinach
Published Date:
Feb 4, 2024
Last Updated:
According to a canonical dharma believed by all religions and fraternities of life, man was created to be loved while things are created to be liked, but corruption happens when things are loved and man is liked. Example,it was due to the fact that some corrupt leaders where in the herm of affairs of some of our faculties and departments that was why majority of them embezzled the scholarship funds meant for indigenous students just because of their love for IPhone 14 and the rest.
Corruption is one of the main issues highlighted as having detrimental effects on our different faculties and departments socioeconomic growth. It is evident in every aspect of the economy and welfare of our students including public service.
Many of these welfare and public services are tied to the realisation of fundamental human rights. Article 21(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that, “Every student has the right of equal access to public service in his country”, while Article 25(1) emphasises that, “Every student has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services.
It baffles me, how most faculty leaders and departmental leaders who wish to be involved some day in the Nigeria mainstream politics soil their hands with embezzlement of students dues and alumni donations that is ment for the actualization of students fundamental rights and welfare while pointing accusing fingers on the management for proper care.
Behold some faculties dirty environment.
Our problem is not actually the school management but a few faculty and departmental leaders who has only come to embezzle the students funds just because no one cares to ask questions of our funds.
Certain forms of corruption in service delivery (such as clientelism, patronage, bribery) undermine the human right of equal access to public services, and exacerbate fundamental inequalities that violate citizens access, affecting the most marginalised and underrepresented segments of the population the most. Moreover, rampant corruption can lead to breakdowns in the service delivery chain, rendering the unions apparatus incapable of meeting its obligations to safeguard her students , with catastrophic consequences such as lack of love Garden in most faculties (kudos to the SUG for coming to the aid of some faculties) and lack of basic amenities like waste bins,mirrors etc.
Prior this time, the leadership of the student unions were renowned for challenging government policies on education and other national issues and providing social amenities for the welfare of her students.
Unfortunately, the students Union leaders of most faculty's and department, has actually transmuted it from its original responsibilities of promoting and protecting the interest of the Nigerian student to that of ‘money making ventures’.
It is alleged that some executives of the faculty's and departmental union government body had always sought financial assistance from the student levies, corporate sponsorships, alumni donations and grants from the school management, even government agencies but ends up diverting such funds to their personal use.
Thus; some of our leaders has continued to exploit and over burden the students it claims to protect. It is now become an established tradition with the body for every students across the school to pay a mandatory dues whose purpose no body knows for certain and which has over the years accumulated into hundreds of millions of Naira with no one asking questions of what happens to our funds.
Though the constitution of the student union in many faculties and departments stipulates that the accounts of the particular union should be audited regularly by the bursar or the auditor whom the union appoints. The union also has to make public its budget and expenditure for the session. However, in reality, nobody enforces these rules and union leaders have a lot of room to beat them.
We've watched many leaders organise events such as Dinner and Award Night, Mr and Miss of their department or faculty, picnics and the rest without accounting for it even after making millions of Naira from the event. This leaders will always be the first to go online to insult the Nigerian government and the school management of corruption or marginalisation of the Nigeria students while they are actually defaulters of what they preach.
Remember the master who was leaving his house to travel, and, before leaving, entrusted his property to his servants. According to the abilities of each man, one servant received five talents, the second had received two, and the third received only one. The property entrusted to the three servants was worth eight talents, where a talent was a significant amount of money. Upon returning home, after a long absence, the master asks his three servants for an account of the talents he entrusted to them. The first and the second servants explain that they each put their talents to work, and have doubled the value of the property with which they were entrusted; each servant was rewarded:
The third servant, however, had merely hidden his talent, burying it in the ground, and was punished by his master
Therefore; to whom much is given, much is expected and let it be established in the minds of all leaders that the fast legs are always seen by the fast eyes. To the students populace;report any such cases of Corruption and embezzlement for proper investigations.
Viva Vitória.
Corruption is one of the main issues highlighted as having detrimental effects on our different faculties and departments socioeconomic growth. It is evident in every aspect of the economy and welfare of our students including public service.
Many of these welfare and public services are tied to the realisation of fundamental human rights. Article 21(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that, “Every student has the right of equal access to public service in his country”, while Article 25(1) emphasises that, “Every student has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services.
It baffles me, how most faculty leaders and departmental leaders who wish to be involved some day in the Nigeria mainstream politics soil their hands with embezzlement of students dues and alumni donations that is ment for the actualization of students fundamental rights and welfare while pointing accusing fingers on the management for proper care.
Our problem is not actually the school management but a few faculty and departmental leaders who has only come to embezzle the students funds just because no one cares to ask questions of our funds.
Certain forms of corruption in service delivery (such as clientelism, patronage, bribery) undermine the human right of equal access to public services, and exacerbate fundamental inequalities that violate citizens access, affecting the most marginalised and underrepresented segments of the population the most. Moreover, rampant corruption can lead to breakdowns in the service delivery chain, rendering the unions apparatus incapable of meeting its obligations to safeguard her students , with catastrophic consequences such as lack of love Garden in most faculties (kudos to the SUG for coming to the aid of some faculties) and lack of basic amenities like waste bins,mirrors etc.
Prior this time, the leadership of the student unions were renowned for challenging government policies on education and other national issues and providing social amenities for the welfare of her students.
Unfortunately, the students Union leaders of most faculty's and department, has actually transmuted it from its original responsibilities of promoting and protecting the interest of the Nigerian student to that of ‘money making ventures’.
It is alleged that some executives of the faculty's and departmental union government body had always sought financial assistance from the student levies, corporate sponsorships, alumni donations and grants from the school management, even government agencies but ends up diverting such funds to their personal use.
Thus; some of our leaders has continued to exploit and over burden the students it claims to protect. It is now become an established tradition with the body for every students across the school to pay a mandatory dues whose purpose no body knows for certain and which has over the years accumulated into hundreds of millions of Naira with no one asking questions of what happens to our funds.
Though the constitution of the student union in many faculties and departments stipulates that the accounts of the particular union should be audited regularly by the bursar or the auditor whom the union appoints. The union also has to make public its budget and expenditure for the session. However, in reality, nobody enforces these rules and union leaders have a lot of room to beat them.
We've watched many leaders organise events such as Dinner and Award Night, Mr and Miss of their department or faculty, picnics and the rest without accounting for it even after making millions of Naira from the event. This leaders will always be the first to go online to insult the Nigerian government and the school management of corruption or marginalisation of the Nigeria students while they are actually defaulters of what they preach.
Remember the master who was leaving his house to travel, and, before leaving, entrusted his property to his servants. According to the abilities of each man, one servant received five talents, the second had received two, and the third received only one. The property entrusted to the three servants was worth eight talents, where a talent was a significant amount of money. Upon returning home, after a long absence, the master asks his three servants for an account of the talents he entrusted to them. The first and the second servants explain that they each put their talents to work, and have doubled the value of the property with which they were entrusted; each servant was rewarded:
The third servant, however, had merely hidden his talent, burying it in the ground, and was punished by his master
Therefore; to whom much is given, much is expected and let it be established in the minds of all leaders that the fast legs are always seen by the fast eyes. To the students populace;report any such cases of Corruption and embezzlement for proper investigations.
Viva Vitória.
About the Author
Sinach
A les Avocat, living with the It Begins With Me Mantra and determined to dot all i's and cross all t's for a better Nigeria.
