The newly elected President of the University Students’ Association of Ghana (USAG), Latifa Jasaw, is calling on all student leaders to summit to a new spirit of togetherness and resist the temptation of partisanship.
She made this statement when the CEO of myJCR, Okatakyie HiLary, contacted her to congratulate and seek her collaboration in advancing the interest of students in Ghana. Ms. Latifa is a medical student of the University for Development Studies (UDS) and an old student of St. Monica’s High School. She was elected to lead the Association at the 2013 USAG Congress which was held in Navrongo. Below is her message for university students.
I join the living beliefs of our founding members and say, ‘the student struggle is on and victory is certainly assured’. A huge thank you to my impossible campaign team who made it happen. I also thank all delegates for opening their minds and hearts and for seeing the possibility of what we could build together for ourselves and posterity.
I am profoundly grateful for giving me the chance to serve you. I congratulate my contenders; Ebenezer Agorhom, Lukeman Imoro and Jeffery Kyei Baffour for giving me a very tough competition. Indeed, you fought a good fight and made a mark: and it’s only because you love our Association and strongly care about its future. I look forward to meet with you and merge ideas and to find ways of moving our Association forward.
Yesterday, we voted as supporters of candidate. Today we begin as university students whose well -beings are linked together. Now more than ever, University Students’ Association of Ghana should be more redirected to its aim; that fundamental aim that was born by the spirits of the founding members.
I believe, inasmuch as we have the duty to make USAG work, it also owes Ghanaian university students the fundamental tools that they need to make the most of their lives. This is the basic bargain and I will do our best to honour as the president of USAG.
A call to action: let us summit a new spirit of togetherness, let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness that has poisoned our students’ leadership for so long.
Our association is hurting, and we have the duty to revive it. We will exist as one people with a single purpose. We will take actions, and implement policies that will give USAG the proper brand it deserves. It requires no small amount of hardwork, but I know with your help and God’s we will leave a lasting legacy for posterity.
God bless you all. God bless USAG! God bless our mother union NUGS! And God bless Ghana!
