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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN STUDENTS TURKISH ZONE (NANS TRZONE) 3RD SENATE SEATING HELD AT NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY, TRNC ON 16TH OF JUNE 2016

COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN STUDENTS TURKISH ZONE (NANS TRZONE) 3RD SENATE SEATING HELD AT NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY, TRNC ON 16TH OF JUNE 2016
Published Date: Saturday, 18 June 2016

BEING A TEXT OF THE COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN STUDENTS TURKISH ZONE (NANS TRZONE) 3RD   SENATE SEATING

HELD AT NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY, TRNC ON 16TH OF JUNE 2016

THE SEATING WAS PRESIDED BY THE SENATE PRESIDENT, COMRADE AKOLADE BOLAJI YUSUF

The senate arm of the National Association of Nigerian Students Turkish Zone met on the 16th June, 2016 at the Senate Secretariat (Near East University Lefkosa, TRNC) to discuss issues bordering the association and her members in other to proffer possible solutions. The seating commenced at exactly 1:10PM Turkish time, in attendance were the Senate President, Comrade Bolaji Yusuf, Deputy Senate President, Comrade Madaka Farouk Ado, Senate Clerk, Comrade Titilayo, Senate member, Comrade Victor Oviemuno, other distinguish senators cutting across 4 member Unions (GAU, EMU, CIU and NEU), unfortunately, no senator from EUL was represented. Others present at the senate seating were members of the executive arm as senate Ex-officious led by the NANS TrZone President Comrade Salim Hamza Ringim.

After brief introduction of senators and others at the seating, the senate president gave his welcome note, expressing concern on the attitude portrayed by most members of the executive on gross negligence and irresponsibility in their respective duties and informed the house that the senate has convened to fix such excesses and further unite the institutions for a better and stronger student's struggle.

After the welcome note, the senate president constituted the communique drafting committee by simple nominations from the house.

The communique drafting committee was composed of;

  1. Senator Fredrick Edeh     –     EMU
  2. Senator Henry Ukwu       –     CIU
  3. Senator Daniel Domson  –     GAU
  4. Senator Yahaya Umar      -     NEU

Issues discussed and resolutions made by the Senate were as follow;

  1. Senate Leader and deputy senate leader will be elected from senators in the next senate seating, this move is to give powers of removal of any senate principal officer in cases relating to abuse of office and negligence of official duties.
  2. Report were received from members of the executive members that were present at the seating
    • Comrade Darlington Daniel    –  Director of Travels & Exchange
    • Comrade Biliaminu Jubril – Treasurer
    • Comrade Fredrick Letong – Financial Secretary

The financial secretary handed the sum of 720 Turkish Lira and 110 USD from last administration to the current Treasurer, which were monies realized from election 

candidates in the last convention that held on the 12th Dec. 2015.

  • The senate charged the financial secretary and treasurer to make inquiries on the possibility of opening a bank account for the association.
  • The Director of Travels and Exchange was charged to put more efforts in discharging his duties to serve Nigerian Students in the Turkish Zone better.
  1. The senate president charged the executive arm to look into the fall and spring semesters and adopt relatively permanent dates for NANS TrZone events and those dates should be respected by member union. More so, events should be organized for students staying back for summer.
  2. The senate frowned towards Comrade Dafevwakpo Justin (NANS TrZone Vice President External Affairs) absence in the seating, making it impossible for him to brief the house on 2 allegations leveled against him, which were Protest at CIU and inappropriate conduct at GAU, these allegations were read to the house by the Deputy Senate President as requested by the Senate President. Though the Senate President, Comrade Bolaji Yusuf raised concern on the Vice President External, Comrade Justin's absenteeism in the meeting without informing the house, he therefore charged the house to deliver judgment and appropriate sanctions in his absence but Senator Fredrick Edeh raised an objection by saying since the accused Vice President External Affairs was not particularly invited to answer to the allegations levelled against him, he should be served with an official invitation to appear before the house as such allegations were enough to call an emergency meeting.
    • The house adopted that appropriate sanctions will be given to him if found wanting in the case of negligence of duty same as other executives according to the degree of negligence but will be given another opportunity to appear before the house to defend himself on the 2 count charges.
    • Still on GAU misconduct, the house requested for an official written or voice recorded report from the parties involved at the violence that occurred at GAU between Comrade Justin and Comrade Temile Emmanuel (Pioneer Secretary General of NANS TrZone) and report from the NSA GAU President.
    • A record of Comrade Temile Emmanuel side if the story was made
    • Ultimatum will be given to comrade Justin to appear before the house through a letter that will be issued from the office of the senate clerk.
  3. The senate assessed the executive arm and adopted the following sanctions;
    • The Vice President National Affairs will be served a letter to encourage him devote more time to matters patterning to NANS and Nigerian Students at large.
    • General warning letter will be served to all executive members that failed to attend the senate seating.
  4. Lethal sanctions;
    • NANS TrZone senate impeached comrade Mbachu Emeka John with NANS ID No. NANSTRE00006, NANS Turkish Zone Assistant Secretary General from European University of Lefke for gross negligence of duty after been sent official warning by the President without any reply and change in attitude. The senate adopted that his replacement be made immediately in the acting capacity pending an appeal from him, in the absence of an appeal, his replacement will be made from the same school.
    • The Senate suspended Comrade Zachariah Madaki with NANS ID No. NANSTRE00005, NANS TrZone Secretary General for 4 weeks with a fine of 100 Turkish Lira for gross negligence of duty and mismanagement of the secretariat.
    • The senate gave run for any appeal and request that appeals be addressed to the office of the senate clerk on or before 26th June, 2016 as there will be a joint session between the Executive and Senate arms at the secretariat.

On Bank Verification Number (B.V.N)

  1. The senate received reports from the President, that the embassy was inviting a private company from U.K to carry out the exercise but students will be charged the sum of 30 pounds for the exercise, the senate president hinted the President of a company that does B.V.N at Ankara and charges 170TL, the house charged the President to make more inquiries and address the issue more seriously as Automated Teller Machine (ATMs) cards were blocked from complains received from students by the house.

On CIU Attestation for Certificate:

  1. The house received complain from NSA CIU on the 75TL paid by graduating students instead of the official 50TL paid for certificate attestation by the embassy, the president responded by asking the CIU NSA president if the 75TL is paid directly to the school or embassy, the president went further to say he will discuss with the embassy about it, that to his knowledge, the official amount was 50TL and also charged the NSA CIU President to inquire from the school the need for the extra 25TL payment.

NANS ID card:

  1. The senate president emphasized on the issue of ID Cards for the leadership of NANS to identify with schools and NANS President should represent them as the counselor here in Cyprus since there is no any consulate or embassy.

On International Passport:

  1. The senate president spoke by saying, the collection, renewal and distribution of international passports should be decentralized from Eastern Mediterranean University as students exercise difficulties coming from long distances like Lefke and Girne that it should done either in a more centralized and neutral location in lefkosa or it should be rotational.

On Embassy Visit:

  1. The senate clerk raised concern on the embassy visiting the island, precisely EMU without the knowledge of other schools. The President responded by saying, he will work on it and also inform other student's bodies before the embassy officials' visit.

        Senator Fredrick Edeh advised other student's bodies to work with the management of their various universities to develop a cordial working relationship with the               embassy so as to invite them in cases of student's issues.

On NANS TrZone Visit to NANS National, Stakeholders and other Students related offices;

  1. The senate brought to the knowledge of the President on the need for NANS TrZone to strengthen her bond with the National body and visit key offices related to student's struggles so as to address issues faced by Nigerian Students in the Turkish Zone. The President responded by saying, that it was already in his plan, as he is planning a trip to Nigeria this summer to visit top government officials in relation to bringing lasting solutions to problem faced by Nigerian Students, the president went further to say that the relationship between NANS TrZone and NANS National is very cordial.

On 5 Million Issue;

  1. The house raised inquiries about the 5 Million that was donated to NANS TrZone in the last administration. The president, Comrade Salim Hamza Ringim appealed to everyone to forget about the 5 Million since it is money from the government, and insisted that it will be almost impossible retrieving the said amount but if the house insist, EFCC could be involved but in his opinion, he said since no debt was passed unto his regime he will prefer to let the money go so as to maintain god working relationship.
  2. New Appointments;
    • Comrade Mustapha Abubakar Sadiq (EMU) was appointed acting Secretary General and handed the responsibility of the Secretariat.
    • Comrade Muhammed Ahmed Tijjani (NEU) was appointed acting Assit. Secretary General.

On A.O.B

  1. GAU NSA Elections;
    • Senator Fredrick Edeh raised the issue of NSA GAU election misconduct, saying no matter the level of independence of member union of NANS TrZone, he feels NANS Trzone should be aware and have a say to an extent as the case of NSA GAU election was a practice that could bring shame to Nigeria as a lot of negative comments were already on social media and went further to say the conduct of some students leaders does not show that the youths are ready to act differently from our present leaders if given the opportunity to handle the affairs of our dear country.
    • NANS TrZone Senate President added by urging all member Union to inform NANS of their subsequent elections and invite NANS as external supervisors and election observers. The senate President went further to propose leadership training to train leaders for a better Nigerian.
    • NANS President, Comrade Salim Hamza reacted by saying, a date will be adopted and announced for leadership conference during the next executive meeting scheduled to hold on the 26th June, 2016.
    • Report on NSA GAU election was received by the NSA GAU President, the house resolved that more deliberations will be made during the senate next seating.
    • NANS President, Comrade Salim Hamza advised NSA GAu to be very careful in their dealings and should work on their struncture, constitution and elections.
  2. The communique drafting committee (CDC) was charged to deliver the communique on time.
  3. The seating was adjourned by a motion moved by Senator Ajiboro Temitope from EMU and seconded by Comrade Darlington Daniel from NEU
  4. Next Meeting Dates;
    • Joint NANS TrZone Executive and Senate meeting at the Secretariat (Eastern Mediterranean University) will hold on Friday 26th June, 2016.
    • Senate meeting will hold on the 16th July, 2016 at the Senate Secretariat (Near East University)

 

  1. Signed By;

Senator Fredrick Edeh      –    EMU

Senator Henry Ukwu        –    CIU

Senator Daniel Domson   –     GAU

Senator Yahaya Umar       –     NEU

2015-2016 1st NANS Turkish Zone Senate Seating Communique Drafting Committee

Release Date: 18th June, 2016


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