Dear All,
As these minutes are being published, our own dear Command Secondary School Jos
is approaching its 34th year and believe me the school is in a deplorable
state if you have not seen it please look at the images posted on facebook by
Ibrahim Bragadoe Kadiri and class of '93 or CSSJOS.com (which will be up and
running by the 29th of September) which happens to be the34th anniversary of
Command Secondary School Jos, there you will see for yourself.
As this dear school reaches its 34th year and approaches it 35th anniversary
lets all gear up for action and do something to bring it back to its former
glory.
These are part of the issues in our current minutes please take time to read it
and let's start preparing ourselves mentally to be part of our history.
Many Thanks
Kofo Owojori
Chair & Director of Communications
Cojosa UK-IRL CIC Trust
MINUTES OF COJOSA UK-IRL CIC
Venue: Thistle Westminster, London UK
Date: 17th September 2011
Time: 2:00pm
Attendees
Kofo Owojori- (KO) Chair of Directors and Director of Communications
Dayo Adeyemi-(DA) - Vice Chair and Director of Event
Ngozi Enem-(NE) - Secretary and Director of UK-IRL Fundraising
Maimuna Shelleng-Icare-(MS-I) - Director of Treasury/ Accounts
Donatus Ejiefor-(DE) - Advisory team Board
Minika Kingsley-(MK)
Ibrahim Kadri (Dubai)-(IK)-(via Telephone)
Apologies
Festus Adeyemo - Advisory team Board
Edward Emuchay
Discussion
Current State of Command Secondary School Jos
Recently the 93 set visited Command Secondary School Jos (IK) said they were
able to have a tour of how the school is and were very disappointed and unhappy
at the state of the school buildings and condition of how students are living
and being taught, though it brought back memories of their days whilst students
of CSSJ.
- (IK) - had a list of a compiled survey provided by the 93set who recently
visited CSSJ and the current commandant. The survey noted that the students now
have to buy water to sustain themselves, and there are no adequate water
facilities. The reservoir/ water well are not working.
-Students sleep on the floor- no provision of mattresses and in very poor
conditions.
-The school building which includes the class rooms, home economic block and
hostels are ready fall down at any time (i.e) in a very poor stat.
-Dining room/ Kitchen are in adequate conditions, still using equipment that
were first placed when the school started in 1977.
-Overall nothing is being done, no maintenance, no adequate facilities. The
school library has nothing in it.
-The Computers that the 1988 set donated are not being used, they are not even
connected. Possibility that they may eventually be disused after all the effort
that were made to attain them.
- There is also mismanagement of funds that are allocated to CSSJ.
-There are no accountably of funds given to CSSJ.
- Command Jos is the only command school in Nigeria that nothing is being done.
All other command schools are being renovated, provided with excellent
educational and structural building facilities.
- Other school who were not matched up to CSSJ standards in the 80's have now
taken further projects themselves to re-vamp their old school by ex-students,
and even have total decisions of what happens in the school management boards
and how schools are administered. Schools to just to mention a few, for
example, are Igbobi Boys College and Federal Government College Jos.
Action
1). (IK) stated he is prepared to have a one to one with the current commandant
and do a write up of all realistic current demand for improvement.
2) (IK) stated an immediate need for a water pump, advised by the current
commandant which will cost 73,000.00 Naira
3). Proposal to for all CSSJ student to have one voice
-create projects for refurbishment or demolishing and rebuilding, on the school
premises for new structures(ALL)
4). Decisions to be made to build new building on acquired land
5). Having a representative from COJOSA UK-IRL to go to CSSJ and find out what
is actually needed
6). (KO) advised she had a very important discussion with various
representative to raise funds to achieve these projects by every individual set
from 1982 -1997 to raise up to 1,000,000 Naira from each different set making a
total of 15,000,000.00 Naira and approaching a government body to match/double
that amount for us to achieve vital refurbishment to CSSJ. All allocation of
funds and projects will be monitored and supervised by an ex-command student.
7) This above donation by each set should be achieved within a given time span,
possibly by June 2012 and done on a yearly basis, and a facebook group will be
created with various COJOSA representatives to set a target for each graduating
set from 1982-1997 targeting to raise 1,000,000.00 each .
8) (MK), who currently reside in the UK suggested she will help to initiate
this project of every set donating the above given amount whilst she is in
Nigeria.
9). (All) agreed we need to decide when the refurbishments should be done and
should be done during mid- term or school holidays.
COJOSA UK-IRL Next Big Event
After the successful event of the Family Fun day in the park to keep the tempo
building, COJOSA UK-IRL CIC will have an event in November 2011. The Date has
been confirmed, but the venue and time is yet to be confirmed
Objectives of the November Ball Event
-(DA)advised this ball should be an opportunity for (us) ex-command student to
come together to support each other, how we can motivate ourselves and provide
any opportunity for us to build upon ourselves, network and provide more a
larger communication body within ourselves as a community. This was a calling
for alma mater awareness. We should not forget ourselves, in the view and
process of our main aims and objective of giving back to command secondary
school.
-All agreed this was to create more awareness for COJOSA UK-IRL, both locally
and Globally.
- Obtaining an influential speaker even within ourselves. (In-house)
- There will be a live video recording representation of how Command Jos was
and how it is now today shown to everyone at the Ball.
- Various speeches and recognitions will be made- Announcing all the Trust
Founding Members
-Causes for CSSJ, Future Projects and Contributions
- Fundraising to realise aims of refurbishment and improvement of CSSJ.
-All agreed to approach honourable guests and some of us will contact/ try to
pull strings for people who are well recognised in the society.
Date: 26th November 2011
Time and Venue: to be confirmed
Tickets will be sold for the event.
£60.00 per person
£100.00 for couples
Also group tickets will be made available. For those who want to sit together
as a group.
THE ESTIMATED COST FOR THE EVENT IS ANTICIPATED TO COST £5000.00
This will cover the booking of the venue, the catering/drinks, necessary event
itinerary and entertainments. A full list of what will be taking place in the
event will be published later on face book and yahoo group.
(DE), (KO), (MK) suggested various venues- which included a restaurants or a
hall. Once a venue has been agreed, it will be announced.
(MK) is to get number of all the US representatives to discuss if we should go
ahead to immediately publish our upcoming event despite their convention taking
place in October.
(All) agreed catering will be hired out and there will be provision for
Nigerian dishes.
Executive members of the board will have up to date meeting on a regular basis
to discuss planning of the event.
Awareness of COJOSA UK-IRL CIC New Website
http://www.cojosaukirl.co.uk/
Feedbacks were overall impressive and encouraging. A job very well done by a
daughter of an ex- command (KO).
(MS-I) said she will have a one to one discussion with the Web admin
on any improvements/ suggestion she may have.
(All) have agreed to say a formal thank you and a letter to be written to the
web admin, who is a daughter of an ex-command jos, the chairperson - (KO) for
all her hard work.
Creation of a new website for the hosting of COJOSA Global.
COJOSA UK-IRL CIC were given the task to design, create and build a website for
command secondary school jos. There used to be a website for CSSJ called
commandjos.org, but unfortunately this has been discontinued and the
domain-commandjos.org is now very expensive to acquire. Currently there is no
website for command jos.
The purpose of this website is to have it designed for command secondary school
jos. With command secondary being the main content of the website, with
links/section for COJOSA Nigeria Chapter, COJOSA NA chapter and COJOSA UK-IRL
CIC Chapter respectively.
This is in process and a domain for the command jos/global website has
been purchased and is call: CSSJOS.COM. Hence, www. cssjos.com has now been
birthed to host command secondary school jos website.(DA) purchased this domain
from his own personal expenses.
Updates will be given on a regular basis on the progress of the www.cssjos.org
website.
All COJOSA Chapters will have to place up their contents. A general overview
for the command secondary school content/ uploads will be needed and decided on
by COJOSA Global.
(KO) advised she also had a discussion with (IK) regarding forward IT
enhancements/investments for the overall IT structure for command jos and
COJOSA global. (IK) advised he will be able to pull strings with an IT giant
that is currently controlling the IT Industry and will like to work alongside
with COJOSA UK-IRL CIC with this company (IT giant). Further discussion and
progression on this will take place soon. No estimated time frame but is on
progress.
AOB
It was duly called to everyone attention in the meeting that COJOSA UK-IRL CIC
would need a mediation/complaints team. The purpose of this is for any members,
who have any personal grievances about COJOSA UK-IRL CIC activities or about
another member,should be in the first instance, be reported to this body. It
was suggested the advisory team and the mediation/complaint team could be
combined into one team (NE)
(MK) suggested that every member would have to sign a declaration which states
that if they have anything to report the mediation/complaints team has to be
contacted first, and also how each members should conduct themselves with
regards to being a member of COJOSA UK-IRL CIC.
Also it was mentioned when seeking legal advice from the Community Interest
Company Association which COJOSA UK-IRL CIC is part of, concerning any issue
that COJOSA UK-IRL may have, they advised this is how we can resolve in-house
issues that may occur within the executive management board or any grievances
that trust members may have regarding activities of COJOSA UK-IRL CIC by
dealing with them in house.
Hence at the meeting was suggested as mentioned before to set up a
mediation/complaint team to handle all matter that may arise
The function of this team will be:
1). To resolve all inhouse issues on behalf of members
2). To make sure no one feels left out, demoralised, or injusticed.
3). To create unity and a strong bond for all members
4). Anyone who feels discriminated can voice their complaints.
5). The main aim of this team is to ensure that every member works together in
unity and be satisfied with all affairs of COJOSA UK-IRL CIC.
6). This will also make sure any grievance feelings are not
displayed/communicated anyhow through various COJOSA communication groups and
will help to enable all issue and matters to be kept in-house.
Current In house Issue
Currently COJOSA UK-IRL CIC has a very minor in-house issue at hand and as soon
as the mediation/complaint team is established the issue at hand will be passed
over to the mediation and complaint team for immediate resolution and fairness
(All).
(ALL) were surprised that some of those who are involved in the minor current
in house issue had not attended the meeting to hear all side of each person's
grievances/ concerns as they were expected to have attend the meeting.
Transparency of account
(DE) suggested that all members should be made aware of all funds they have
donated have been accounted for.
All types of donations can be provided via the COJOSA UK-IRL CIC website.
Members Contributions so far
(DE) paid up his member fee of £50.00 at the meeting.
Kingsley Okogie of 87/88 set paid his founding trust member fee of £168.00.
87 set made a group donation of £225.00 on the day of the fun day in the park.
(All) have to decide who will be on this team and this team should take
effect as soon as possible. The team will be intended to judge all
matters/issues in total fairness and there will be no preferential or biased
judgments.
(MS-I) advised she will provide a more coherent and specific job description
of the mediation/complaint team
(MK) has put herself up to be part of this team.
1). The very current minor in-house issue will passed over to be resolved by
the mediation/ complaint team as soon as the team is established and will be
dealt with in discretion until the minor issue has been resolved.
2). (DE) and (MK) both have voluntarily put themselves forward to contact and
speak to the other member(s) who are involved with the very minor in- house
issues and did not attend the meeting. And these issues will be dealt with in
discretion until all matters are resolved.
Treasurer- (MS-I) will action this. Also (MS-I) will provide up to date account
at every general house meeting for the benefit of COJOSA UK-IRLs members.
(MS-I) will send out a letter proposal to all members regarding donations.
Next COJOSA UK-IRL General House Meeting 29th October 2011. Time and
venue to be announced
Signed By
Ngozi Enem (Nze)
Secretary Cojosa UK-IRL.
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