Campus
is now live with MUSO politics. Soon the 26th SGC will be dissolved
and that means the office will be void prompting need for new
leaders. Many comrades have shown interest in various dockets in the
incoming 27th SGC. Though the campaigns have not officially kicked
off, it is known which comrades are aspiring for which dockets.
Everybody has his or her own opinion on the performance of the
outgoing 26th SGC. Most comrades believe that they failed the
students while others think they did all they could for the students.
Those
we remember Mr. Mwamburi Mwangombe will always recall his statement
during the dissolution of the 25th SGC. When he said that the
comrades will miss his leadership, a section of those present at the
function booed him. Does the 26th SGC compare favourably with the
25th SGC in terms of performance? Has much changed positively? In the
reign of the 25th SGC, flow of information from the Administration
and the SGC was commendable. Weekly updates from MUSO were always
posted on the main notice board at the students’ centre. There was
The
Illuminator
which MUSO used to update students of its activities, but what
remained of The
Illuminator when
the 26th SGC took office? After a heated disagreement among the
directors the publication underwent a natural death.
Where
could we have messed? Do the students have a hand in the failure of
the outgoing SGC?
Solving
students' problems is not all about attacking the University's
Administration by mere words. That does no good to the students,
instead coming up with ways of convincing the Administration to look
into the affairs of the students would be the best way out. when
students vote in MUSO directors, they always give them the mandate to
make the University Administration aware of the needs of students and
find solutions to those needs.
After
witnessing the performance of the 26th SGC, campaigns by aspirants
full of attacks on the administration without stating how they will
make the administration understand and solve the students' problems
will be of no importantance to the students. The outgoing SGC gave
the comrades alot of hopes with their activist campaigns. Ironically
it turned out that the same SGC made the comrades feel no need of
having MUSO. Some comrades now believe they can survive in this
campus without the now turned toothless students' governing body.
When Technology students went on rampage in 2011, it took the efforts
of Mwamburi and his team to convince the administration to let the
students back from the indefinate vocation they had been given.
Those
aspiring to serve in the incoming SGC should know that the student
fraternity need solutions to their problems and this takes more than
dog whistling politics to redeem students' trust in MUSO. It is a
humble responsibility of the incoming SGC to redeem MUSO's
Sovereignity.
