Leadership tools
Leadership is a ship that one cannot enter without getting set to deal with controversies. At my 200 level after collection of the first association dues, some students started insinuating that the dues were squandered. It was around that period I had my first bike which was actually not yet mine at that point in time, it was like higher purchase. The dues were collected but along side polo where made for every departmental student which was made to be compulsory as the head of the department ensured that she stamped it to be so just as I requested and we all were wearing it every Monday.
The polo contract was handled by me, that was where I actually had interest from. The student dues was not spent by any of my EXCOS but some students felt it was. We organize a congress and we came out transparent to give account of the dues collected, the expenses and the present account.
Believe me, some students still find it difficult to accept it. As a protagonist, it was eminent that antagonist should be in the department to make me a matured leader. The antagonist was close to me and we spent time together because I felt she should get to know me better and then judge me from that perspective.
It worked out to seventy percent. The critics subside as she became a friend. We started working on faculty association. We arranged a meeting to meet with the dean of student who was a simple and easy going man. The mandate to commence the faculty association kick start and we prepared for the constitution and I became the faculty financial secretary.
As a faculty, the transparency portrayed at my department allowed that the post of financial secretary be bestowed on me. We were not able to get the Student union early enough to be approved by the university not until when we were in final year that they approved it. We laid good foundation for the next set and the future set and we conducted election as electoral body for the next set to stay in power as we prepare for graduation.
If we had gotten the SU before graduation, with my popularity and diligence, the SU president would have had me in the placards even without my endorsement.
School politics allowed me to grow in body and soul. I was the shepherd of a flock having elderly men and women, married men, married women far older than I was but it was maturity that kept the ball rolling as the department never suffered at my era.
