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By: chance on the 7th, January 2010

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Open Letter To University Of Buea Students' Union

had complained officially to the University Administration twice in my first and second years in the University of Buea about UBSU. I also copied you (UBSU Executive) so that you could react and change.

But, today, I write not only as one who has been directly affected by your recently embarrassing portraiture of our values, but also as one who believes the time is due for us to stop childish things and have a rethink of a positive way forward in the best interest of posterity. Not only are these negative impressions unhelpful to us but also that they contribute in destroying our cherished citadel, which we all avowed and claim to build.

The recent infightings in the Union leaves most of the student population with the impression that you have lost control of yourselves and the system we entrusted in your care. UBSU should represent student’s welfare and interests. UBSU should reflect the best student culture of striving for academic excellence, fair treatment of students on campus and an embodiment of objectivity. This is what you were voted to represent. This is why you were called up to run this framework of constructive dialogue with both administration and government and other academic partners. Why are you letting us down?


You have gradually degenerated into a stage akin to the proverbial guard who after an excellent service to his masters throughout a turbulent season of insecurity, turned out to subject same to terrorists threats in times of peace. The University of Buea as the lone public Anglo-Saxon university in Cameroon was established after much unspeakable quests.

It stands out today as a source of great national pride to all Cameroonians from all works of life, Anglophone and Francophone alike. It has earned for itself the reputation for maintaining high educational standards and a reputable research hub in Cameroon. We, the first beneficiaries of this great legacy, ought to contribute to it. A lot has happened already. We understand what lost is it we sometimes incur in the continuous quest for autonomy. We should understand our limitations as students.

But also we must not also conflict this with why we came to this institution and the need to continuously safeguard and guarantee our core objective as a means of contributing our own quota in the business of making our country the best place for our generation and those of our children yet unborn. Such is the legacy we should strive to ensure. In us lies the potential of making the University of Buea as great as Harvard, Oxford etc or as devastated as a war or hurricane ravaged campus. The choice is ours to make.

This is a wake up call especially for those who have not realized that the ground beneath them has shifted. This is a clarion call to national service, a call to responsibility. While a handful of students disagree with this popular view, it is irrefutable that we all share so much in common; that we are all students and future leaders; that we are all God’s children; that the University of Buea is ours to plough not to plunder; that it is ours to make not to waste; and that it is ours to man not to maim.

 
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we are not all God children sir.if that was the case there would be no need for evangelism.


by: martial
from: porsgrunn Norway

“CHANCE”, you are more of a poet than a Journalist. what message are you actually trying to pass across? because when i read through your post, i see no sense of direction.

There are somany things about UBSU that you need to be an insider or strongly involved in its activities before you can better understand the core values of UBSU or the role that UBSU plays in fighting for student’s right. 

Alot of things are actually going wrong in the university of Buea and without UBSU, things would have been worst i think.Just have a review of what transpired with the First ever Extrance Exam into the University of Buea school of Medecine in 2006, the recent controversy about the same Medical Exam in 2009,Sexual harrasement from Lecturers and ............. the list is actually endless.

I think we need to support this guys and give them more courage rather than trying to relent their efforts.

YES!!! no doubt, the UNION needs some re-adjustment in terms of how it is governed or administered but its not a matter of throwing insults at them or discrediting them. I QUOTE “time is due for us to stop childish things and also your recently embarrassing portraiture of our values”. This was not a good step.

I bet you, all attempts to dissolve UBSU are personal and the Blood of those who died trying to fight for UBSU to be instituted shall come after them(Those trying to destroy the image of the Union or taking activities of the union for their personal interest).

i look forward to getting your feetback or reaction and also the views of other contributors to this site.

LOVE YOU ALL


by: Kang Quintus
from: University of Antwerpen, Belgium

kamel,kamel,kamel N she a real bitch?Everybody is fighting to get some of dat ass even students.it is a real shame and pity


by: big t.k
from: southside beach

This is an excellent address to an audience of positional leadership than visional leadership.

I hope this make sense to most of us....because UBSU has lost track and is on the wrong side of history. Loong live the Universty of Buea. We are God’s children so God bless all those with connection in UB.
GBU


by: Mwalimu Bela
from: The Hague

HELLO GUYS, ATLEAST WE ARE BACK AGAIN WITH SOMETHING THAT CAN HELP US GROW, MA BROS KANG, I DONT KNOW FOR HOW LONG YOU HAVE BEEN IN ANTWERP BUT MY OPINION IS THAT IF YOU HAD BEEN IN UB RECENTLY THEN YOU WOULD REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT CHANCE IS TRYING SAY IN HIS LETTER. THE MAIN IDEA BEHIND THE CREATION OF UBSU WAS GOOD, BUT WHAT UBSU HAS EVOLVED INTO CANNOT BE EXPLAINED EVEN BY ITS CREATORS. UBSU IS JUST NO MORE A STUDENT BODY, IT DOES NOT EVEN LOOK LIKE IT HAS ANY STUDENT ORIGINS. I AM SORRY TO SAY THIS BUT IT IS JUST THE SIMPLE TRUTH. WE WANT OUR UBSU BACK AS IT WAS INTENDED. NO HARD FEELINGS GUYS, WE ARE JUST TRYING TO BUIL OUR COUNTRY.


by: PEEZZEE
from: AROUND TOWN

It’s a pity UBSU of all is going through this shameful and disgusting epoch where no aorta of responsibility can be traced in ur midst. i feel ashamed that for 3 years that i hav been in UB, UBSU has not done anything for the interest of the students. just as some1 said, the initial idea for the creation of UBSU has long disappeared, so much so that any body says anything and it goes. because UBSU is in shambles, the V.C wants to exploit it for his selfish motives. in fact let me end here 4 now. pls resist the V.C and go back to the “Drawing Board”


by: Wally ITIE
from: AROUND TOWN
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