REASONS WHY EKENE FINALLY WAS IMPEACHED - political rascality

REASONS WHY EKENE FINALLY WAS IMPEACHED - political rascality

The Speaker                                                                                                                                                       21^st nov.2014

House of Representative

Student Union Government

UNEC

Through

The Clerk

House of Representatives

Student Union Government 

UNEC                                                 

Sir,

NOTICE OF A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE

Eze Ekene

The executive council Students Union Government University of Nigeria Enugu Campus wishes to notify you that it has passed a vote of no confidence on the president of the Student Union Government University of Nigeria Enugu Campus in the person of Mr. Eze Ekene U. The executive council in an emergency meeting held on Friday 21^st Nov. 2014 after reviewing the state of the union unanimously decided adopt the “Doctrine of Necessity” by voting for the removal of Mr. Eze Ekene u as the president of the union since all the problems and difficulties facing the entire union for long time now were purposefully created by him. Council reviewed the activities of the SUG president over time and found out that they were all inimical to the progress of our unionism and to the generality of Nigeria students in UNEC who trusted the destiny of the union in his hand. Some of his activities which we found not only unacceptable but also painfully unbearable    have been highlighted here.

To begin with, the SUG president has purposefully abandoned the union for a very long time now. He nefariously refused to call for executive council meeting for a period of more than four months now. It must be noted here that the SUG president for no reason had refused to call the council meeting even before his suspension by the house of representative. He constantly rebuffs calls for meeting coming from several officers of the council on the ground that he is writing exams. We found his excuses unacceptable because Mr. Eze Ekene is always present at all other meetings summoned by students from other schools, he has always been present at all the meetings of NANS holding elsewhere. His excuse is also unacceptable because the exams he claim to be writing is yet to start and couldn’t have run for four months. We must note here that assuming exam was an issue stopping our SUG president from his duties, he would have directed his deputy to hold the meeting from time to time following the clamor for it by members of the executive council. So it is a clear case of unwarranted dereliction of duty which we can no longer continue with in the interest of Nigerian students.

Secondly the SUG president Mr. Eze Ekene u on 15^th of October 2014 led students of other schools on a courtesy visit to the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka Prof. Chinedu Nebo who is now the minister of power. This is coming at time when the union is in dire need of money and in need of such courtesy visits that will boost the fortunes of the union. Please note here that eze ekene has never led our union to any courtesy visit despite the fact that it was one of the means we agreed we will be sourcing fund from. The SUG president vehemently refuses to make any movement that will lead to generating fund for the running of the union but he does so for students from other schools. This has led to a situation where the officers of the union run their offices with their personal fund which has crippled the activities of the union for long time now. We cannot continue to allow a person who in his greed for money and selfishness and nazistic tendencies frustrates the activities of an entire government to continue to lead the union for as elected officials we are obliged to defend the interest of the people who elected us no matter whose ox is gored. Obviously a man who does these things as a leader of his people does not have the interest of the people at heart.

Thirdly during the National Association of Nigerian students (NANS) convention which held from 11^th to 14^th  September 2014, the school authorites approved the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand naira for six (6) officers of the union that attended the convention at Asaba  Delta State. But on getting to Asaba the president and the financial secretary Mr. Awe promise for unknown reasons hijacked the money to the detriment of the other officers of the union in the convention. It resulted to a very bad scene that shattered the dignity of the University of Nigeria before students of other universities from across the country. As the president was posing to fight with some officers of our union, the president’s cronies and foot soldiers from other universities were busy harassing and intimidating the other officers. It took the intervention of the associate dean students’ affairs department Dr Mrs. Edith Nwosu whom our union officials in the convention had to call at an ungodly hour of 1.05 am of Saturday the 13^th of September 2014 for the president to release a very small fraction of the fund for the officers of the union. In a meeting of the entire union with the associate dean students affairs department held on 6^th of Nov. 2014 in the dean’s office, the secretary general of the union who took time to inform the entire union of the incidence frowned at the development and demanded an account of how the fund was spent from the president and the financial secretary. The financial secretary provided a written “Break Down of NANS Convention Money”. From the break down, out of the ₦250,000.00 released for the convention, the sum of ₦182,000.00 was accounted for while the sum of ₦ 68,000.00 remained  unaccounted for. This ₦68,000.00 is supposed to remain in the union’s account since in the long run it was not used for the convention but the duo of the president and the financial secretary were telling us that there is no money in the union’s account to pay for an eleven thousand naira the union borrowed from the associate dean students affairs department. The inglorious conduct of the SUG president that not only embarrassed the SUG UNEC in the presence of their counterparts but also dragged the  of the image of the  University of Nigeria to the mud is considered by the council as undeserving and quite unbecoming of a person that occupies the post of SUG president of UNEC and as officers elected to protect interest of students and also promote the good image of the university, we cannot allow anybody who abuses this primary roles to continue to lead the union.

Fourthly, in our bid to ensure that the troubles in the union get solved, some of our officers had approached the associate dean student’s affairs department and complained about the president’s refusal to call executive council meeting among other issues to her. The associate dean in her own effort as a mother of the students saddled with the responsibility of dealing with any issues concerning the students of this great university directed a meeting of the entire students’ union government UNEC on 6^th of Nov 2014. In the meeting all the officers present in the meeting complained of one thing or the other against the president with special attention on his inability to lead the union for many months now. Also complained was that the president is keeping malice /not in talking terms with almost all the officers of the union – a fact which the dean herself attested to. The dean pleaded passionately with Mr. Eze Ekene U to resume his leadership of the union by calling for meeting as soon as possible since his only claim of writing exam was disputed with a stronger fact that he attends all other meetings with students of other schools including leading them on a courtesy visit that lasted for some days to minister of power in Abuja. The president who stubbornly claimed before the dean that he had been carrying everybody along despite glaring evidence and facts also struggle to tell the dean that he remains a saint that he had always claimed to be. But more than two weeks after the meeting with the dean, Ekene Eze neither called nor directed his VP to hold executive council meeting. What we saw instead was that on Monday the 17^th Nov 2014, the same man whose exams don’t give chance to hold or ask his deputy to hold important meeting for more than four months not only did he seized an invitation sent to our union by a certain political party to attend a rally at Okpara Square but also led a group of students to the rally without notifying any officer of the union. We got to know this through the benevolence of some of our colleagues from other schools who were marveled that we were not there. Note that the said invitation was sent to all SUG in various schools in Enugu state. Note also that the SUG president Eze Ekene attended and participated in several meetings preceding the rally. We wonder why his examination did not stop him from all these. Apart from the fact that he concealed the invitation from everybody in the union, he collected the sum of five hundred thousand naira (500,000.00) that was distributed to all the schools that were invited and returned here in the campus on 18^th Nov to share the sum of six hundred naira only to fifty people that allegedly attended the rally apparently ignorant of Eze Ekene’s antics. The SUG president pocketed the remaining four hundred and seventy thousand (470,000.00) naira. The executive council considers this to be a height of wickedness against it and the entire government by the supposed president of the union in an event the union members were invited. It should be pinpointed here that the officers of the SUG of other schools were visibly present in the event but ours is different because we have a selfish, self-centered, greedy and unfortunately wicked president in the person Mr. Eze Ekene U.  Because he has done this, the council is of the impression that the president is capable of selling the entire students for monetary gains and therefore we cannot continue with him.

 Having continued to jettison his duty by refusing to call meeting two weeks after the dean had pleaded with him to do so, more than the majority of the council members had signed for an emergency meeting to be held to enable us review the state of the union among other important issues. To this effect, an emergency council meeting was fixed on Friday the 21^st of Nov 2014 which the SUG president was duly notified of. The meeting was overwhelmingly attended by the council members. The council members were again shocked to their marrow on noticing that the president was absent. It is this development that forced the council to adopt the “Doctrine of Necessity” by invoking an inherent power of every executive council the world over to remove to president through a vote of no council. The vote has duly been signed by members of the council and we use this medium to communicate same to you.

For want of space, we are not presenting all the misdeeds of the president Eze Ekene to you beyond what have been stated already. However there is the need that we make some point quite categorical at this juncture. The executive council members have done all that is humanly possible to work and cooperate with the president of the union. Each of us has at one time or the other done something very unique to help Eze Ekene succeed as SUG president. We have covered all his lapses till date as we know that every human been possess some form of lapses and Eze Ekene surprisingly is one with alarmingly stupendous amount of lapses. But from verifiable incidences it is clear that he is impervious to change and strangely possess the trait of inability to work peacefully with any human being on earth aside his unrivaled and legendary greed for money, fame, suppressive mannerism and notoriety for financial dishonesty and misappropriations. After reviewing all the activities, actions and inactions of the SUG president, the executive council is of the informed impression that Eze Ekene is on a very sinister mission to strangulate the Student Union Government UNEC the same way he strangulated the First Year Medical Student Association (FYMSA) when he was their president. And he has gone far in achieving this. All the things we have observed him do some of which have already been highlighted here are the same things he did with the first year student of medicine who entrusted the welfare of their association into his hand as their president. It is on record that the SUG president embezzled all the money contributed by members of FYMSA and used antics very identical to the ones he had used in this current SUG to throw the association into irreparable crisis that lasted in the hearts of their members for many years. The fate of Ekene’s FYMSA is what the executive council cannot fold their hands and watch Mr. Eze Ekene impose on the nascent SUG UNEC hence our decision to retrieve the post from him. This we believe is very necessary as the fortune of the entire Nigerian students in UNEC is far more important than the fortune of an Eze Ekene. We are going this detail for the consumption of the entire student populace who are frequently being fed with numerous lies by the SUG president in his quest to force the UNEC students to perceive him as a saint.

And at this juncture the executive council make bold to state, in order to put the record straight, that Eze Ekene contributed only an insignificant percentage to all the  successes recorded by this government quite contrary to the lies he told the students on 6^th of Sept. 2014. On the said day Ekene Eze purported to tell the students among other lies that all the successes recorded by this administration was done by him alone. The truth remains glaring everywhere in this school and it is that in all the said successes recorded, Eze Ekene maintained a posture that made it impossible  for them to be achieved but thanks be to God that most of the members of the executive council know quite well how to get a job done without creating problem. Many people in the school administration can attest to this. That is the secret of the said successes and not due to one man who always use sentiments to confuse the students who elected him. In that same announcement, the SUG president went further to tell the students that he is the only person in the executive council that is mature. Our reply to this is that, what the president said can only be true if maturity is measured by number of departments and faculties one has changed to or from while undergoing a first degree program.

Finally we wish to conclude this by informing you that we took our decision based on the fact that to allow the SUG president Eze Ekene to stay longer than this day 21^st Nov 2014 in  office is to put the final nail on the coffin of this union. It is equally worthy of note to mention that the SUG president has never informed anybody in the union of what is going on in the municipal committee instituted by the Vice Chancellor Prof B.C Ozumba and in which Ekene was put in order to represent the students interest and to act as a catalyst to see to the restoration of pipe borne water to Enugu Campus. This resulted in members of the union not being able to give a correct answer whenever the Vice Chancellor had asked question on the state of the project. Three sub committees was   created by the municipal committee and SUG president was requested to appoint the unions representatives in to each but till date nothing like that ever happened. To end this, we wish to give glory to God almighty for making us understand the antics of  the SUG president Eze Ekene who was throughout his regime encouraging division, sabotage, internal wrangling and opposition within the executive council in particular and the entire government  in general in order to achieve the wicked biddings of his hearts. Today we are united as one body and more than ever before ready to move the union to an enviable height and to preserve the good image and reputation of the University of Nigeria as she continues to “Restore the Dignity of Man”. Cooperate with us dear honorables of our great union!

Thanks .

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VC UNN

DVC UNEC

ASSOCIATE DEAN (S)

DCSO UNEC

 SUG senate

SUG Judiciary