Kano Veteran Journalists Ratify,Adopt League’s Constitution
By Abdullahi Yusuf
The Charter establishing the Kano League of Veteran Journalists(KALVEJ) was on Wednesday ratified and adopted by members of the League.
The exercise which was held at the Tahir Guest Palace,Kano, was coordinated by an Aide to the state Commissioner of Information and Internal Affairs,Mallam Auwalu Mu’azu.
The session featured intensive discussions,comments, observations and scrutiny by members of the union drawn from various segments of the Journalism Profession, including the Academia.
Members’ observations in the Charter which turned out to be the League’s Constitution,included absence of clauses to take care of welfare of members,gender representation and mode of funding of the League.
After extensive deliberations,it was agreed that all the issues raised would be channeled to the Constitution Drafting Committee/Secretariat for consideration.
In his remarks at the occasion,the state Commissioner of Information and Internal Affairs, Comrade Ibrahim Abdullahi Wayya,clarified that the League “is not an appendage of the State Ministry of Information.”
Wayya also explained that the League is an independent body which the ministry supports and relates with on professional basis.
At the end of the session,a motion was moved and adopted that the Committee which drafted the Constitution should continue to run the affairs of the League for the next one year, pending the election of substantive executives of the union.
Chairman of the committee, Alhaji Ahmed Aminu,thanked the gathering for giving members of the body the mandate to continue to steer its affairs for the one-year period.
Aminu pledged that the issues raised during the session, especially those concerning welfare of members would be addressed in the new Constitution.