CONSITUTION OF THE HUMANITY CENTRE
ARTICLE I: NAME AND TITILE
(A) The organization shall be known, called and designed as THE HUMANITY CENTRE (Otherwise known as THE CENTRE)
(B) The title of the Centre shall be “The Board of Governors of The Humanity Centre hereinafter referred as “the Board”.
ARTICLE II: MOTTO
The Motto of the Centre shall be “Developing Humane Humans for Rights, Against Corruption”.
ARTICLE III: COMPOSITION
The Humanity Centre is the integrated administrative Secretariat of several humanistic non-profit-non-governmental organizations operating in Nigeria. The Centre is currently composed of the following:
1. Child Help In Leadership, Democracy, Rights and Education in Nigeria (C.H.I.L.D.R.E.N.) Project.
2. Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL)
3. Alao Aka-Bashorun Foundation for Human Rights (AAFRIGHTS)
4. Centre for Cultural and Religious Rights (CECURR)
5. Grassroots PowerPoint (GPP)
6. Beko Rights Klub (BRK)
The Centre is, by this arrangement, able to provide effective management on a cost-sharing basis for the component institutions.
THC, formerly known as CHILDREN Centre, is currently located at No 610 Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ijaye Bus Stop, Ijaye-Ojokoro, Lagos. The Centre occupies a one-storey building of two five-bedroom flats each. The initial rents of five years, equipment and materials were paid for by Debo Adeniran, originally for the use of CHILDREN Project of which he is the National Coordinator on voluntarism basis from the proceeds of his education and capacity development consultancy firm, the First Faculty Ventures.
THC intends to source for funds and materials from public-spirited individuals and institutions to develop, upgrade and expand the current available facilities, equipment and materials to suit, the need of the fast changing modern world.
The Centre hosts offices, training rooms, a library on general humanism, human rights and governance; a relaxation spot and a trade training institute.
The Board of Governors of THC is made up of people of proven integrity who have been consistent in promoting human development, human rights and social justice in Nigeria.
1. CHILDREN PROJECT …fostering a holistically sane future
Child Help In Leadership, Democracy, Rights and Education in Nigeria (CHILDREN) Project is a developmental, child-right, non-profit, non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Nigeria. It takes special interest in matters that concern women. This is in realization of the fact that any deprivation and brutality meted on woman impacts directly on children. It was established in 1994 as a response to the continual degeneracy in socio moral and academic standard of the Nigerian child.
GOAL
To get all Nigerian citizens educated within the shortest possible time.
VISION
Elimination of all inhibitions that come between any child and good basic education in Nigeria.
MISSION
To use research finding as advocacy tool to protect the conventional Rights of the Child and sensitize the society in general and various governments and other policy makers in particular, on the state of the child in Nigeria with a view to helping them with moral, intellectual as well as technical supports to play their individual and collective roles towards making adequate provisions that will make child education in Nigeria gender-balanced, equitable, adequate, qualitative, functional, accessible, affordable, holistic and worthwhile.
OBJECTIVES
¨ To press for full implementation of the UN convention on the Rights of the Child and Article 26 (i – iii) of the UN 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Nigeria.
¨ To press, advocate and work assiduously for the incorporation of the teaching of the working of democracy and values of Human Rights as expoused in the Rights of the Child, and other similar instruments in all educational institutions.
¨ To work for the enthronement of legal and social order where all forms of child abuse e.g. harmful socio-cultural practices like child-labour, child marriage, child exploitation and deprivation will be eliminated.
¨ To educate the populace on how to eliminate socio-cultural and religious practices that hinder socio-economic and political empowerment of women in Nigeria.
¨ To advocate for free maternal health care and press for free health services for the Nigerian child.
¨ To advocate for the enforcement of proper and appropriate family planning scheme with a view to making sure that all children of any family are well educated.
¨ To work closely with Motherless Babies’ Homes and Orphanages, as well as Remand Homes with a view to ensuring their compliance with national and international standards in their operations.
¨ To cooperate and encourage government at all levels to provide school and educational facilities, materials and infrastructures for Nigerian schools.
¨ To work, cooperate or collaborate with other local and international organisations and persons that share similar views, to achieve these objectives.
¨ To make a free legal aid services available and accessible to victims of child rights violations.
PROGRAMME
In order to ameliorate the degenerating condition of the Nigerian child henceforth, and to achieve the set objectives of this initiative forthwith, CHILDREN programme shall take the form of:
¨ Elaborate public enlightenment and educative activities through the use of print and electronic media to include posters, handbills, jingles and other press slots; picketing, rallies, seminars, workshops, lectures, songs, drama, publication of periodicals and other forms of internationally accepted media of campaign.
¨ Advisory and monitoring services to private school owners and various government agencies and organs on school policy implementation and curricular development
¨ Massive and consistent campaign against child abuse in all its ramifications and manifestations
¨ Legal actions against erring persons (including the Child’s parents) or authorities (Including the State).
¨ Establishment of a National Resource Centre on the Rights of the Child.
¨ Establishment of CHILDREN Clubs in all institutions of learning for the purpose of empowering children themselves on their rights, duties and obligations.
¨ Establishment of a Save Child Education Fund (SACHEF) to assist public schools with emergency needs.
2. Alao Aka-Bashorun Foundation for Human Rights (AAFRIGHTS) …providing necessary succour in oppressive environment
The idea that culminated in the formation of Alao Aka-Bashorun Foundation for Human Rights (AAFRIGHTS) was first mooted at the 70th Birthday Anniversary of Mr. Alao Aka Bashorun on 5th of December 2006. It was coordinated as Comrades’ Open House’ to a Foundation or a Centre was raised as a private discussion with Baba Omojola who enthusiastically welcomed it and asked the speaker to work out a draft modality for it. Somehow this was not done until two years later. This was after the issue cropped up again at the Founders day and Award Giving celebration of the Lagos State Branch of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) on December 9, 2002.
After Mr. Aka-Bashorun award was received on his behalf by Barrister S.B. Alli of Aka Bashorun’s Chambers that a torrent of tributes started pouring on Mr. Aka Bashorun, who speaker after speaker variously described as indefatigable and indomitable defender of human rights. His pivotal role in providing legal aid for indigent victims of human rights violation was sung to high heavens where he was able to secure justice for many and succour for others. His roles in this regard were described as a springboard for the establishment of various human rights and pro democracy movements in Nigeria. Some of which he either led or participated in as members. Examples are Patriotic Democracy Front (PDF), National Consultative forum (NCF), Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Campaign for Democracy (CD), Nigerian Tenants Association (NTA), Nigerian Pasengers Welfare Association e.t.c.
It was at this Forum that it was formally resolved that a human rights institution be established to keep the thoughts and ideals of Mr. Alao Aka-Bashorun on top of the agenda in national discourse. The Lagos State CDHR Branch Chairman Mr. Ade Ikuesan and a few other members were then constituted into a committee to draft a consultative proposal as well as Theoretical Framework for AAFRIGHTS.
Some of the main yearly programmes of AAFRIGHTS are:
¨ Legal Aid services to victims of human rights abuse.
¨ Medical and Material aid to human rights activities with malignant or terminal sicknesses
¨ Alao Aka-Bashorun Annual Lecture (AABAL) and its publications
¨ Biennial research activities into unanswered questions on human rights, judicial system, social justice, and governance e.t.c. and publications of their reports.
¨ Establishment of a Human Rights Resource Centre
¨ Advocacy on research findings and other issues of interest.
¨ Networking with other institution, agencies or bodies with similar views, aims and objectives.
3. Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) …securing a graft-free society
The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) is an aggregate of human rights, community based, and civil society organisations with anti-corruption agenda across Nigeria. CACOL sets for itself the task of using any available means to cause relevant authorities to probe and bring to book all corrupt leaders both in public and private institutions. The decision to embark on the journey was taken in view of the need to confront, once and for all the monster that is ravaging all facets of our national life in Nigeria - Corruption. We decided to do this on behalf of millions of hapless Nigerians who have by a choice that is not theirs, fallen or are potential victims of corrupt leaders. This monster torments ordinary people of Nigeria in all areas of their endeavour. We have to confront it with a view to defeating it because it has to be done, not by ghosts or citizens of other nations but by Nigerians who have pride in themselves to be full-blooded Nigerians.
Rationale: Causes of all socio-economic and political problems plaguing Nigeria today have been traced to endemic corruption by and among leadership of various socio-political institutions in Nigeria and their collaborators elsewhere. Corruption as evidenced in all dishonest behaviours like stealing, oppression, favouratism, nepotism, lying, embezzlement, misappropriation, bribery, cheating, fraud etc has made an average Nigerian poorer while an average leader unjustifiably wealthier than the capacity of their legitimate earnings.
Access to all basic necessities - food, water, health care, road, education etc not to talk of good things of life - housing, power, energy, transportation etc are elusive to an average Nigerian. Living in Nigeria has become a nightmare owing to lack of security to lives and property occasioned by the large army of unemployed youths that turn to crimes for want of what to eat. While our leaders appropriate billions of naira to themselves as salaries, wages and all sorts of allowance, including renovating a three-year old building with N628 million while the only building standing in the culprit's former primary school has no roof; they sell our common heritage to themselves and cronies at ridiculously low rates; destroy public institutions to create market advantage for their private and privatized ones and accentuate fraud with fraudulent judicial process, people of Nigeria die in droves of preventable ailments like road accidents, malaria and childbirth! Hence we hold the belief that rather than engaging authorities on the effect of a vice we should tackle the vice itself from its roots
Ideology: Equitable distribution of work and wealth. From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs. It is our belief that the state owes it a duty to provide jobs for all able bodied. Nigerians never ask for too much than to eat and have a place to lay their heads with minimum convenience. But where the state fails to perform this aspect of its responsibility it must provide social security for the unemployed and the aged. This will make our country convenient save and secure for everyone to live in.
Principle: A rotten head cannot protect its body. A cancerous tail threatens the head. The fight against corruption is a hydra headed one that cannot be confronted from all fronts at the same time. It can only, like learning proceed from known to unknown. The great is what is known while the little is relatively unknown owing to their level of spread and impact. Hence our fight shall take the principle of `one step at ca time' starting from the presidency to the councillorship; from Chef Executive Officers to cleaners, in both public and private settings.
Motto: Name, Nail, Shame and Shun Corrupt Leaders Anywhere, Everywhere
Vision: A Nigeria without corrupt leaders both in public and private sectors of the economy.
Mission: To deploy any means available to it to cause relevant authorities to probe and try all corrupt leaders both in public and private institutions.
4. CENTRE F OR CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS (CECURR) ...Securing Thought and Conscience
The roots of the fostering political and cross cultural conflicts in Nigeria today are traceable to the careless handling of the twin conscientious phenomena of religion and culture by the State. All discussion in political and social circles centres on whether one is a Christian, Muslim or an adherent to traditional religious practices. Other wise it is what part of country one comes from to determine his traditional mindset on a subject. To the state, these phenomena are mundane and deserve no immediate attention. It is usually not until fight breaks out are lost before the state begins to douse the tension. This principle of “saying the head that is already off” has it has therefore become necessary that people of all faith and cultural backgrounds should be adequately educated on the need to respect and tolerate each other’s right. This has to do with knowing the limit of one’s rights and the beginning o another’s. It has to do with live and let live. Thus people of all religious as against forced cohabitation with mutual suspicion.
Recently in Nigeria, there have been several fatal physical and moral inter religious and inter cultural battles that lead to massive loss of lives and property in matters that a simple roundtable discussion would have averted. Religious houses have been deserted and destroyed. Respected leaders have been paraded in the media as common criminals on matters that border on simple intra and inter religious disagreements. Recently too religious practices have been turned into big business venture where unhealthy competition thrive. Envy had graduated to jeaslousy which in turn gave rise to men of God becoming gladiators in the public blare trying to outwit each other in the use of disparaging languages and exchange of diatribes.
Nigeria is famous to be the bedrock of African rich cultural heritage, values and practices that are capable of foreign exchange earning for the country. However conservative foreign influences and myopic religious practices have reduced anything, barbaric and evil. In some cases such unguarded pronouncements have led to bloody encounter between cultural adherents and others.
All these have been discovered to be due to lack of adequate information on the principles and practices of different people on ways and manners of tolerating each other’s religious and cultural practices and harmony may continue to elude different African countries.
CECURR is a child of necessity borne of the need to bring a succor for victims of religious and cultural persecution in any part of Nigeria. Interestingly It is a non-religious organisation. Its board membership is that of men and women of different religious background including atheism. It is non-sectarian, non – gender bias gender – sensitive, non – profit making, non – governmental organisation. It activities cover all parts of the country work strategy centers on study, research, education, advocacy and enlightenment.
OBJECTIVES
The aim of CECURR is to provide a platform for defence, clarification and enlightenment of the populace controversial and misunderstood religious and cultural practices in Nigeria. This is with a view to putting all into all religious and socio cultural conflicts in Nigeria.
Other objectives are:-
¨ To help religious and cultural groupings explain their point of view to the populace where they seen to have been misunderstood.
¨ To advocate for right for freedom of thought, conscience, and religion as provided for by the Nigerian Constitution.
¨ To work towards the protection, preservation and promotion of the Nigerian cultures which enhance human dignity.
¨ To expose, confront and fight to a standstill, any religious and cultural practice found to be diabolical in any part of its form and function.
¨ To promise issues that will enthrone religious and cultural tolerance and general social justice within the Nigerian polity.
¨ To take necessary action to protect the rights of any person or group who could fall victim of preservation on the basis of his assertion of religious and cultural rights under the law.
¨ To work for the enthronement of legal and social order that will ensure that all anti – social legislations that are obnoxious to freedom of religious and cultural practices are abrogated while new ones in such category are prevented from seeing the light of the day.
The Centre intends to achieve its objective through the following:
¨ Holding of periodic public enlightenment programmes like conference seminars, a workshop, roundtables, symposia, lectures, diabetes e.t.c
¨ Publication of Tolerance, a quarterly new magazine that exposes different religious practices documents activities of CECURR.
¨ Broadcast of Tolerance, weekly phone in television and radio programmes that will feature relcultural leaders to explain their practices and answer questions from the audience.
¨ Issuance of Posters, leaflets, handbills , and other printed matters to promote the ideal of religious and cultural tolerance within the polity.
¨ Institution of legal against any person or group of persons that engage in acts that are capable of violating other peoples religious and cultural rights.
¨ Staging of public rallies, picketing, protest, etc against any person, group of persons public or private, who tend to impinge on rights to religious or cultural practices of any person or a body of persons.
5. GRASSROOTS POWERPOINT …a point of empowerment for the grassroots
GRASSROOTS POWERPOINT is a political education institute. It joins efforts with the First Faculty Ventures, a development and capacity-building consultancy firm as well as other pro-democracy organizations to organize series of activities that will help to ensure that our vote is made truly our power when the real person we voted for becomes our elected representative. Towards this end, GPP intends to engage the contestants and electorates in Town Hall Meetings. Village Square Meetings and Market Stead Talks.
GPP has found that the main problem that confronts the grassroots is total or partial ignorance. They do not have the boldness to ask for what belongs to them because they are not sure of their ownership of such. This is why they vote blindly without asking for the genealogy, pedigree and antecedents of the candidate. They join parties without considering their ideological learning programmes, manifestoes and constitution. They are complacent to tyrannies because they are unaware that life can be better lived. They are easily bamboozled because they consider the elites sighted and themselves blind. This problem of widespread ignorance at the grassroots in endemic and they need a deliberate plan of action geared towards tackling the roots cause of the problem.
The solution to the problem of ignorance is enlightenment. The Grassroots PowerPoint is poised to tackle this monster once and for all within our polity. Language barriers would therefore be broken. Inferiority complexes would be removed. The grassroots would be highly empowered, emboldened, enlightened and encouraged. They will be led to take their rightful positions within the scheme of things. GP is not a political party or an affiliate of one. It is totally independent. It works with all political parties, human rights, pro-democracy NGOs as well as all individuals that subscribes to its guiding principles. It is an impartial arbiter and dispassionate intercessor.
Members of GP will be trainer of trainers. They will be provided with adequate political social and economic training to the extent that they can pass the training acquired on to the less privileged ones. Their training curriculum will start from literacy and numeracy to politics, economic and governance. All political, economic and other deceptive jargons will be broken down to the language the grassroots understand. They would be led to partake in ‘Town Hall’ and ‘Village Square’ meetings. They will also be led in ‘Market Stead’ talks. A yearly report of activities will be complied and published.
i) ‘Town Hall’ Meeting
At Town Hall Meetings, elective candidates would be put to task on his agenda for the people if he won. He must be able to convince the people by his antecedents, attitude, aptitudes and character before he could have their votes. If elected, he would be periodically invited to give account of his stewardship at the same forum where he could be recalled should be disappoint the electorates at any time of his tenure. Town Hall meetings will incorporate seminars, workshops, conference and lectures. GPP will treat every individual on his personal merit or demerit, not minding his political party affiliation, religious belief or other sectarian and tribal considerations.
ii) ‘Village Square’ Meeting
This is a regular forum that every unit of the GPP would organize in their area of operation. This is an enlightenment forum where people will be encouraged to ask any question in whatever language on any subject matter or issue that confuses or confounds them. As much explanation as possible would be offered to be sure that the questioner gets adequate, correct and convincing answer. It is also at this forum that grassroots will be encouraged to come forward for elections and other activities in partisan politics. Village Square Meetings will also incorporated rallies, processions, demonstrations, picketing and protests.
iii) ‘Market Stead’ Talks
Enlightenment programmes will be taken to people at their places of work. Information, Education and Communication materials will be taken and explained to people in simple and concise language. When situation permits, public plays, songs, dance and drama will be staged in open place to attract people to public enlightenment venue.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
1. Everybody is somebody, nobody is nobody.
2. Everybody, whether affluent or peasant has a role in Nation building.
3. Nobody, whether educated or not is a reservoir or empty of knowledge.
4. Nobody is completely useless; at least he would serve as a bad example.
5. Everyone was created free with equal rights.
6. Everyone deserves the best that life can offer.
7. A wrong by the majority is tantamount to a right.
8. A wrong head cannot right its own body.
9. A people must form their own government, by themselves and for themselves.
10. A people united can never be defeated.
Objectives:
¨ To enlighten members on their social and political rights
¨ To enlighten members on how government works and elements of good governance
¨ To educate members on statement analysis and public speaking
¨ To enlighten members on strategies and tactics of fund raising for seeking political offices
¨ To serve as moral technical and material back-up for members willing to contest elective positions.
6. Beko Rights Klub (BRK) …that Beko’s ideals may endure forever!
This club is deliberately so named to tally acronym with that of Beko Ransome-Kuti. It would be recalled that Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti, that indefatigable crusader and defender of human rights, democracy and good governance passed on to eternity on February 10, 2006. For some of us he left behind, such revolutionaries like our Beko, don’t die, they live in the hearts of men. But those who believe in the ideals of this great revolutionary owe it a duty to carry out activities that will immortalize him. This is the only way we can keep their memories in perpetuity. For late Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti, the Beko Rights Klub (BRK) believes he deserves more than yearly ritual of intellectual masturbation that is too elitist for the understanding and participation of the grassroots which Beko loved so much and for whom he dedicated the major part of his entire life.
It is for this reason that the Beko Rights Klub decided that whatever is done in Beko’s memory must be different. It must be taken to the people through street and neighbourhood activities with a view to raising the consciousness of the grassroots in the philosophy of BEKOISM. That is the philosophy of saving the grassroots by grassroots through grassroots activism.
Vision
To be the most visible platform upon which the late Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti will be remembered
Mission
To harness all moral and material resources that believers in virtues, ideas and ideals of Beko Ransome-Kuti can muster to create and sustain a structure that will provide information, opportunities and capacity for the people to recreate, relax, reflect and reminisce on the how to better the situation of our society in the spirit of Bekoism.
ARTICLE IV: ORGANISATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE
The Centre shall be organized at following levels:
i. National Secretariat
ii. Zonal Offices
iii. District Offices
iv. State Chapters
v. Local Branches
vi. Unit Offices
vii. Central Regional Office
(A) The national Secretariat shall be headed by the Director-General (DG). It shall be made up of the following six Directorates each of which shall be headed by an Executive Director.
Directorate of:
i. Organization and Networking (DON)
ii. Programmes and Campaigns (DPC)
iii. Education and Monitoring DPC)
iv. Legal Services (DILS)
v. Research and Publication(DRP)
vi. Finance and Administration (DAF)
(B) The Central Regional Office shall be headed by an Executive Director who shall report to the DG.
(C) Each Zonal Secretariat shall be headed by a Principal Executive Secretariat shall co-odinate the affairs of the zones.
(D) Each District Secretariat shall by an Executive Directors and made up of six Departments in replica of the Directorates in the National Secretariat. Each department shall be headed by a Head of Department. (HOD)
(E) State chapters shall be constituted by delegates from Local Branches who shall elect the following officers:
i) Chairman ii) Secretary iii) Treasurer iv) Maximum of two others as deemed necessary by delegates.
(F) Local Branches shall be constituted by delegates from units and shall elect officers in replica of what obtain in (E) above.
(G) Ward Units shall be constituted by members in each war and shall elect officers in replica of what obtain in (E) and (F) above.
(H) The Board shall consist of heads of the first six founding member organisations although the initiating Organisation, CHILDREN Project would be entitled to nominate additional three other members to make the Board members nine.
(i) The Board shall have permanent:
a. Chairman, who shall also be the Director-General (DG) of the Organization. He shall be the General Superintendent and Administrative head of the Organization.
b. Secretary-General (SG) who shall keep minutes and document relating to the National Secretariat and other organs of the organization.
c. Treasurer who shall keep records and track of all cash, books, bank tellers, cheques and other financial documents of the organization.
(ii) Each officer of the Board shall have a deputy and an assistant who shall act in concert with him and in his lieu in case of his absence.
(iii) The deputy or assistant automatically takes over the substantive office in that order in case of the former membership cessation.
(iv) Membership of the Board shall cease in the event of his (a) Death (b) Insanity (c) Resignation (d) Conviction under the national law in fair trial and judgment for any offence involving dishonesty, crime (e) a Board member can also be expelled according to the provision of the regulations of his primary organisation or by two-third votes of members of the Board.
(v) In case of (iv) above a affected organisation shall elect another representative to take up the vacant position.
(I) All Directors and Heads of Department shall be executive appointed and designated by the Board trough the DG.
(J) Directors, HODs, State and Ward officers etc. shall appoint the staff from financial members of the organization with approval from the Board through the DG.
(K) Each Organ shall design its remuneration structure, specification of conduct and work schedule for its staff in consultation with the approval of the Board through the DG.
(L) Meetings of the Organization shall be as follows:
(i) The Board Meeting:
a. Shall hold as often as it deemed necessary.
b. It shall be the decision-making body of the organization.
c. Quorum at the Board meeting shall be the Chairman or Deputy Chairman and two other members.
(ii) National Executive Committee (NEC) Meeting:
a. Shall comprise of all Directors and other executive officers including Chairman and two other members.
b. It shall hold not more than twice in a year in alternative zones.
c. Extraordinary (NEC) Meeting could be called by the SG in consultation with the DG or through a request letter signed not less than one-third of NEC members from each organ and approved by the Board through the DG.
d. The NEC meeting shall discuss matters concerning conflict resolution within the organization and general organization al operations. It shall carry out an appraisal of each organizational organ and pass all resolutions and recommendations to the FC through the DG for appraisal and approval.
e. The DG shall be the Chairman of the NEC.
(iii) Annual General Assembly (AGA)
a. Shall comprise of the Board, all appointed and elected officers of each ward unit.
b. The AGA shall be presided over by the National Co-ordinator.
c. It shall receive reports from all organs of the organization including Founders’ Council.
d. AGA shall also appraise and review activities of organization.
(iv) All zones, District, Branch and Units shall hold Local Annual Assembly to review the organization’s activities in their areas of operation and pass their resolutions to the National Secretariat through the Directorate of Organizational and Networking (DON).
(M) Conventional meeting procedures shall hold for all meetings. One-third of members of any organ shall constitute the quorum.
(N) There shall be a seven-man honourary National Advisory Committee (NAC) which shall meet as it deem necessary and with the organization through the Board with a view to advising them in any area of its operation.
(O) No organ or structure of the organization shall be legitimate unless it is inaugurated and issued a certificate of operation by the DG excepting however, the NAC.
ARTICLE VI: FINANCE
(A) The Organization shall be financed through:
(i) Subscriptions and donations by members
(ii) Sponsorship of programme by public-spirited individuals: Foundations and corporate bodies.
(iii) Fund raising activities for specific projects.
(B) A fund shall be established to be known as “The Humanity Fund (THF)”
(C) (i) The Director of Administration and Finance, DAF, shall monitor the preparation of annual budgets and fundraising activities.
(ii) No organ of the organization may embark on any form of und raising activities or ventures except with the express approval of the DG through the DAF. Organs shall also inform the FC through DAF of any grants, donations, contributions, gifts, etc. to the organization within two weeks such was made. They shall have separate bank accounts whose signatories shall be elected by the Board.
(iii) Each organ shall be entitled to sixty percent of all incomes generated by it
(iv) All extra financial needs of each organ shall be presented to the FC for approval through the DAF.
(v) (a) Signatories to all central accounts of the organization shall be the DG and SG and or Treasurer of the Board.
(b) The National Secretariat shall also maintain separate bank accounts to be signed by the DG, DAF or any two Executive Directors elected by the Board.
(vi) Disbursement of fund to organs shall be through the DAF by banks transaction. On no account should cash that is more than five thousand naira (N5,000.00) be given or received by nay member of the organization without the express approval of the DG.
(vii) An external auditor who shall not be a member of the organization shall audit the accounts of the organization annually and his report shall be presented to the AGA by the Treasurer.
ARTICLE VII: DISCIPLINE
An act of indiscipline by members, organs or structure of the organization is such that run contrary to the provisions of this constitution and its operational framework.
(i) Each Directorate, or Department and other organ is empowered to discipline its members, officers and staff appropriately after due consultation with the DG.
(ii) The Board through the DG reserves the power to dissolve any organ or structure of the organization for any act of indiscipline.
ARTICLE VIII: MEMBERSHIP
Organisations whose aim and objectives tally with the guiding principles of the Centre and is capable to fulfill its share of costs and other obligations of running the centre may be admitted if recommended by a member organisation and approved by the Board.
ARTICLE IX: AMENDMENT
The constitution or nay part of it, shall be subjected to amendments only by the Board or on the express recommendation of the NEC or AGA to the Board of Governors.
