What are your four top concerns about the guild today and how do you hope to address them?
I borrow my plan of action from the 1906 Guild Socialist movement in Britain that emerged with the belief that value is created cooperatively in community rather than by single individuals. This ideology, I believe should be the purpose of the UCU Guild for the coming year.

  In seeking to attain this, I have given thought to all past guild governments' achievements on record. Upon understanding this history, I have identified one major challenge that needs redress. Challenge: A lack of structures and institutions of governance.
The previous governments found no guiding structures and thus implemented haphazard plans. Each government came with totally fresh ideas and faced the same challenges. We must create structures of governance and foster continuity and harmony. Below are some of the major challenges faced due to a lack of structures.
   Lack of Integrity:
The Guild Governments on many occasions failed to exercise transparency. This demoralized students who have longed for a transparent and involving leadership. My government will take the mantle and lead the way.
We shall ensure effective accountability and work with people of integrity.
I further suggest an independent firm to audit Guild accounts and have reports presented to students.
 Absence of effective representation and participatory governance:
Students are detached from the Guild Government and the administration. When the administration seeks to bridge the gap between it and the students, through ventures like the Administrative review and the VC Parlour conversations, students view these with a lot of doubt. The student's body longs for an opportunity to speak directly with the administrators.
What is the way forward?
At Ashesi University in Ghana, a mechanism has been put in place that enables the students to engage in open forum with the guild and administrators. These open forums bridge the gap between the students and the administration through mutual dialogue and communication. The guild should conduct polls in which different ministries and departments in the Guild and Administration are ranked in terms of their relations with students and their service deliveries. I humbly submit that this shall be more interactive and surely constructive for both the Guild Government and the administration.   
How do you hope to fulfill student's aspirations and also maintain UCU identity even when the two may at times clash?
 This question admits one fact: The aspirations of the student's body and the administration clash on different occasions. This is a natural thing, it is bound to happen. In families, the aspirations of parents are always different from those of the children. The question is, how can the two be reconciled?
There is need to understand what constitutes the identity of UCU. However, there are issues that are pertinent to the students' body irrespective of what they think about the identity. Therefore, we hope to fulfill student's aspirations by sticking to the fundamental issues that do not affect, or compromise the identity of the institution.
What use do you think the guild is to the administration, the students and neighboring community?
To the Administration:
 The administration exists because of the students' body and so is the Guild. The administration has got the students body at heart and is evident in a number of steps taken by the administration to better the students' lives. For example, the construction of a new library and the recent opening of the well equipped resource centre. However, despite these noble achievements the students' body is still suspicious of the administration. Our role, therefore, is to promote mutuality between the two, but must remain a students' guild.
To the Students:
The Guild is the mouth piece of the students' body. The guild has the mandate to reach where all students can't, to speak to those whom all students can't, but must perform this role reasonably.
How do you hope to grow the Guild's resources to offer better services?
The Guild currently depends on its canteen, bazaar and most importantly the farm. The Guild is also entitled to a certain proportion of the students' welfare fund that it is never sure of. I think it is in the guild's best interests and those of the students' that we think of how to effectively utilize what we have than grumble about what we will not easily change. Therefore, projects like poultry need to be enhanced. A leader thinks of the next generation while a politician thinks of the next election, we need to think about projects like the planting of pine trees, which shall greatly boost the income of guild governments in years a head.

PROFILE

 If as they say, 'experience is the best teacher', then Rodney Bamusede without doubt, holds credentials for UCU Guild Presidency.
     He has been in the leadership circle since his childhood and believes khe is the right candidate for students' top post.
     "To me leadership is a calling which I embrace with a passion and to that, the best gift I can ever give to the students of UCU is to serve them through this office," said Bamusede.
      Bamusede, a third year student of Law says if this office dawns on him, his priority will be making the whole Guild institution portray its relevancy to the students' body like never before.
      "The Guild is only as relevant as the students body can make it. If it has to attain anything, then its incumbent upon the students to ensure that," he observes.
     Asked how he would deal with the biting corruption in the Guild, Bamusede calls it 'uphill task' which will require continuous giving of audit reports to the students in order to stamp out the mischief.
      He says that he is here to energize every student to put their un-tapped potentials to full use by leading them with courage.
      "My campaign shall empower and involve every one regardless of their course or background," promises Bamusede.
      Born in 1988 to Bwambale Bamusede and Viola Bamusede in Kasese, Bamusede attended Equator Model School for his primary education from where he served as a Health Prefect and later Head Boy. He then joined St. Lawrence Citizens High School for S.1 and S.2 transferring to Mbarara High where he did his O'level.
     Bamusede later joined St. Henry's Kitovu in Masaka for his A'level, a school where he held different leadership positions. He was Judge, Debating Club, Students' Editor for school magazine, Diocesan President for Masaka Diocese heading about four districts.
     When he joined UCU in 2007, Bamusede got actively involved in students' affairs, he immediately took position of Class President, (LLB class), a position he resigned after being voted MP Residents in the outgoing Guild Parliament.
      While in parliament he was a part of the constitutional review commission, and was Vice Chairperson, Finance Committee.
    
 he was unlucky so he settled for BDS which was his second choice.
Now, he is ready to challenge for the top students office.
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