Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Guest of Honour, Our Learned Speakers, National Executive of the National Union of Ghana Students, Colleague Students, Ladies And Gentlemen, All Protocol Dully Observed. It is my singular honour to be called upon to deliver the welcome address of this all important Empowerment summit. We at the NUGS secretariat taking cognizance of the numerous number of Ghanaians joining the Unemployed Graduates Association of Ghana (UGAG) saw the need to put this program in place to equip students with the necessary cognitive tools on how best they can secure or establish their own jobs after completion of school and to be able to sustain.
Speakers from all walks of life, academia, clergy, commerce and health have been put together to speak to students under the theme “Transforming your world using language”
Our distinguished speakers will speak on topics such as
• Securing or establishing your own job and sustaining it in today’s competitive job market.
• Daring to make a difference using your course of study (Language).
• Becoming an Astute Leader in Today’s Competitive Job Market.
• Staying healthy as you dare to make a difference in today’s competitive job market.
Mr. Chairman before this program, NUGS UEW-A organized a health screening this morning to help students know their Hepatitis B and Blood Pressure status.
As I speak, a team is standing right in front of this hall to register students for the Ghana Students Discount (GSD) card.
Mr. Chairman, holders of this card are automatic benneciaries of discount up to 30% at some selected shops and companies in the country. I will therefore entreat students who have still not registered for this card to do so since different companies keep on registering with the GSD every now and then.
Mr. Chairman, most often than not, students of UEW have called the relevance of NUGS in the school into question. I can’t help but to agree with them and even the more anytime I hear them speak. For what is the relevance of a group that even though students elect people to occupy positions such as president and other offices have to be dictated to by an ‘OVERPOWERED’ SRC.
This year’s NUGS Excellence Award on this campus has been called off because in the view of the SRC this all important program that seeks to reward deserving personalities (students and staff) for serving this campus is not relevant.
It is for this reason that I make a passionate call on the Students Bar Association, the Students Parliament and other interest groups to start the debate on as to whether NUGS should continue to be under the dictates of the SRC. Thankfully, this year is a constitution review year and each and the onus is on each and every one of us here today to right the wrong. I will therefore entreat all students to join this debate to liberate NUGS from the dictates of the authoritative SRC.
Fellow students, ending my speech which is supposed to be a short one and I think it has been, let me reiterate a passionate call continually made by our Vice dean of the Faculty of Languages that Ghana has come of age where the nation needs a clear language policy. I will therefore use this opportunity to plead with policy makers to take this into consideration and get Ghana a vivid language policy which will include making the Ghanaian language a core subject at the senior high level.
On that note Mr. Chairman, I welcome you all and thank you for coming.
Long live NUGS
Long live COLANG
Long live UEW.
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