Exclusive: Disgraced student President faces revolt after fact-finding trip rampage.
The outrage felt on campus has spread to those outside the university who hate to see money wasted in such a ridiculous fashion. Tim Aker, Grassroots Coordinator of the TaxPayers’ Alliance and Nottingham Graduate, said: “This is a ridiculous use of the University’s funds. With his union’s members struggling to pay their bills, it’s wrong that this supposed student leader is partying on the other side of the world at taxpayers’ expense. Students are being forced to pay costly fees to go to university, but it seems some academic institutions are happy to throw money away on free jollies.”
CF and YBF's Christian May, slammed Edung’s jaunt as a complete waste of money. “Did this trip, paid for by the university, add any value to the education of ordinary Nottingham students? I very much doubt it. These are the kind of publicly funded jollies that must be stamped out during a recession. People are very loose with money when it isn’t their own. Just look at Derek Simpson of the Unite Union – living in luxury whist his members lose their jobs.”
Edung went on to boast that he planned to “check out some house parties, ruin diplomatic relations and spend a night in a Chinese cell.” A source close to Nottingham University Student Union claims that plans are underway to hold Edung accountable for his “inappropriate boasts” and to press university authorities to take further action. The source added, “this is what happens when union officials get too big for their boots.”
TB has been trying to get a straight answer out of the university all day. Firstly the President is not taking calls or returning emails. The university press office refused to comment on whether they paid for the trip and referred to it as a union matter. The union press officer was equally unhelpful. She stated firstly that she would look into it, then that she couldn't find out who had paid for the trip, or what it's purpose was. Finally she admitted she wasn't going to give out the information.
TB reckons they know they have cocked up here. His sources have confirmed that the trip was paid for by the University, so out of essentially public money. They seem to be determined to brush it all under the carpet.
You've got some explaining to do Mr President...
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Nsikan, in becoming SU President, managed to break a long-time tradition of Karnival Presidents moving on to the position. But despite it being against the odds, from the start of his academic career he seems to have thought such 'authority' is his destiny. Such an ego he possesses, he believes he rightfully deserves an excess of the trappings of office.
Glad to see the Conservative machine at the University of Nottingham is as slick as ever. Keep it up guys. And give him a good seeing to at the next council meeting.
I would just like to say that this is absolutely hilarious. As someone who has seen this all unfold, I would like to start from the beginning….
A facebook event was created by a visiting friend of the SU President in order to arrange a final night in Nottingham for people to go out before the SU president left for 2 weeks to Malaysia and China. Perfectly understandable.
On this event page, another member of the SU completely misinterpreted the event description, publicly writing in capital letters a statement expressing how they disagreed that the SU president was using the trip as a ‘piss up’. As I am sure you will now agree, this was an event in Nottingham, nothing to do with going on a drinking spree on the trip and clearly this message was written in error.
Therefore, the messages written by Nsikan to a friend who created the original event were written in my opinion in irony of it all and to highlight the stupidity and hilarity of this entire situation. The message written by Nsikan was even written in capitals to show the link between this message and the other.
Now, with the publishing of this all on this website it just shows how silly this entire situation is. I hope now with a fuller picture you will see that this is just a case of where I believe some people really need to get more of a sense of humour and more of an idea of the context of a situation before passing judgement.
Feel free to enlighten me if I am incorrect also.
Thank you
Taxpayers' money being wasted by a students' union leader. Quelle surprise. Maybe he's learned to show disdain for his members by watching the fat cat leaders of trades' unions...