HUMPHREY HAMMOND FOR GJA-GIJ PRESIDENT

With GIJ SRC general elections over, attention has now been turned to the election of GJA-GIJ Student chapter executive. One candidate who has popped up in the race to contest for the Presidency slot is L300's Humphrey Hammond. Below is a comprehensive release by Mr Humphrey.

Humphrey Hammond is aspiring for the
GJA-GIJ Presidential office

Political colleagues, fellow students, I bring you greetings from my campaign team and my very self. This is your chief and humbled and servant HUMPHREY HAMMOND who once again has offered himself to serve the Association. I seek to contest for the position of President of the Association.

My history with the Association has been remarkable and pertinent experience. In level 100, your chief servant served as the GJA Class Representative for this particular community. I succeeded in communicating all matters of the Association to members and got some registered. Also, my contribution was seen in the Associations outside engagement such as our industrial visits to Graphic Communications Group, New Times Corporation and TV3.

With these experiences, I contested for the position of Programs Coordinator in my second year of which I won. I served in this capacity for one academic year and my policies and programs greatly affected the Association in diverse ways. All workshops and seminars were organized well and publicity for these activities was treated with great consent.

I partnered the other executives in bringing some renowned media professionals such as Gideon Aryequaye, Samuel Adjemang, Kwame Sefa Kayi , Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Gifty Anti, amongst others who shared their experiences in the world of work to us.

In partnership with the office of the President, we successfully organized a seminar on human rights advocacy which was highly patronized and certificates of participation issued. I ran several errands for the Association including the purchase of stationary, hiring of chairs and the issuance of notices.

I managed to make the informal session of our general meeting more informative, interactive and more educative.

Currently, I am the Vice Executive Chairman of The Black Toms and Associates, an election think-tank and the Public Relations Officer for Campus TV. Apart from these, I was appointed as the Chairman of the Election and Vetting Committee of GJA-GIJ in 2011.

MY SOCIAL CONTRACTS WITH THE ASSOCIATION
I pledge to in the short term:
 Totally eliminate the relationship gap between GJA-GIJ and the Parent Association.
 Seek answers to our qualification or otherwise for the Media Development Fund.
 Liberate our caged membership ID cards.
 Project towards a peaceful election in December 2012.
• Partner the Parent Association in its elections projects.
• Establish a GJA-GIJ Book of Peace.
• Broadcast the 2008 Election Film.
• Produce a peace jingle; TV and Radio.
• Political Forum to interact with major political parties.
• Seminar on GJA Guidelines on Election Coverage.
 Reinstate the educational and industrial visits.
 Embark on a massive membership drive.
 Employ the use of all communication channels to publicize events of the Association.
 Make our website more interactive, attractive and current.

LONG TERM
 Establish a GJA-GIJ Charity Fund.
 Observe some celebrated world days
• World Press Freedom Day
• World AIDs Day
• World Malaria Day, etc.
 Build and sharpen the human resource of the Association. Motivate and transform members into more professional and ethical people with a corporative touch.
 Market the Association to the outside world.
• Affiliate associations.
• International institutions.
• Corporate bodies.
 Deepen the decentralization process through an effective class representative system.
 Make members the fore runners of the proposed GIJ Radio.
 Make the Association a modern and corporate entity.

I humbly solicit for the support and votes of students to help materialize these policies.
THE NEW WAVE OF REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP HAS ARRIVED
BE INFORMED TO INFORM
VOTE HUMPHREY HAMMOND AS GJA-GIJ PRESIDENT.