Deng Bol Michael makes it a reality with SSSAK leadership!!
4 min readBy Ayuen Kelei, Nairobi, Kenya
May 30, 2016 (SSB) — The South Sudanese students association in Kenya (SSSAK) on the 28th May 2016 started reviewing the constitution in Nairobi Kenya after nine years since the establishment of the institution in the year 2007. The Associations has been under different leaderships from the year of establishment to date without any vivid constitution that Prioritizes interests of the students Kenya wide.
The association has been in a pit of corruptions and embezzlement of funds and students’ grants since it was formed. It has experienced corruption, lack of tranquility and Accountability in addition to inadequate transparency during elections which provoked able Students’ leaders in Kenya the likes of Deng Bol Michael the Current Chairperson of SSSAK, Bok Chol Bok the Current chairperson of South Sudanese Students’ Union in North Rift and Western Kenya, SSSU NRT&WK, an affiliate of SSSAK to develop a sense of need for a change in the constitutional makeup of SSSAK.
Bok before came into the leadership of SSSU NRT& WK, he tried getting into the most admirable and contested leadership of SSSAK with an aim of bringing new constitutional reforms to fights the scandals that the Association was experiencing. However, these efforts portrayed by him were thwarted by his inability then to reach all the students in the Country. This was also Deng Bol’s motive as he campaigned before a mass of students in a hotel hall last year in Eldoret Town of Uasin Ghisu County, North Rift. “I will make changes in the constitution if you give me the chance of this top office of the Association. I will work in conjunction with the incoming leadership of SSSU NRT &WK and other stakeholders to create equal opportunities for all students in Kenya through constitutional reforms” said Bol as he campaigned.
Other issues that need review in the Association’s laws governing it’s fraternity include; the voting rights when it comes to SSSAK elections, the composition of the electoral commission that conducts and monitors elections, the distribution of polling stations, the legibility to vying for certain positions of the offices in the Association, mode of voting where it’s done by proxy in which students are chosen to vote on behalf of the member students in a University or a College s/he studies from. The journey of the review of the constitution had progressive start a week ago with the formation of the South Sudanese Students’ Association Constitution Review Commission in Kenya (SSSACRCK) during a meeting held on 22nd May 2016.
The commission is comprising Suniaka Ambrose from Kenya School of Law as the Chaiperson, Ayen Marial as the Vice Chairperson from Kenyetta University, Adim Adim a member from Kenyetta University, Awen Tito Bol a member from University of Eldoret and Nelson Gatmai a member from University of Nairobi. However, the assembly of the Students’ Councilor is to assist the commissioners in the review process. With first the joint sitting of the commissioners and the Councilors the previous Saturday 28th of this month in which they made a tremendous work reviewing the Constitution up to page 40 of the book containing the law hoping that the next sitting scheduled for Saturday early next month will run as programed by the leadership.
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