Campus politics: 2015

Babu Owino holding $$$$$

PAUL ONGILI OWINO aka BABU

Babu Owino as he is popularly known is undertaking his second degree in law at the University of Nairobi after graduating with first class honors in actuarial science in the year 2012.

Babu Owino`s best speech planning for a helb demonstration:

My dear comrades

“Welcome to the only university of Nairobi,the best university in Africa, south of Sahara desert, north of river Limpopo. My dear comrades,this is the only university with the tallest,darkest and handsome professors,shortest professors.
As the sonu chairman, I will protect you from the unruly watchmen, policemen, lecturers and professors who might have ill intention of causing real or imaginary harm to you..

Tomorrow, we have a date with the government, we shall peacefully demonstrate till helb credit our accounts. Let no one be a bystander,let no one be a sympathizer of HELB. In the end, both the oppressed and the oppressor will be judged equally.

The oppressor will be judged for oppressing the oppressed while the oppressed will be judged harshly for allowing the oppression

Thank You”

BABU OWINO TO SPEND 15 M IN SONU ELECTIONS

Babu Owino, the current Chairman of the Students Organization of Nairobi University (SONU), is planning to spend Sh15 million in the next student elections slated for April 2015. Ndege Sirkal, Babu’s campaign manager, posted the itemized budget on the comrades Facebook page.

The budget includes publicity material:-wristbands, banners, posters, fliers, T-Shirts. Babu will make record by being the only student to vie for the Chairman’s position for three times. The incumbent first run and captured the seat when he was an undergraduate student at Chiromo Campus, UoN. He vied for the position last year when he joined Parklands Law school.

Quoting Babu "The students asked me to vie for the position again so I can’t turn down the opportunity.” Babu said that the money is being fundraised through the support of students,supporters and well wishers.

"They have already raised 3 million shillings through various fundraising activities."

In addition to the communication and publicity costs, the budget includes items for ‘personnel’. 20 security boys per campus will be hired for 50 days which will cost the Babu Owino team Sh2.2 million.

A similar amount has been set aside for ’20 warembo na Babu’ team in all the 11 campuses. Logistics include flights to Mombasa and Kisumu campuses at Sh250,000 and hiring security chase cars for 30 days.Babu says he has mobilized students over the past one year to provide free medical and legal services to prisoners around the country.

Babu Owino's Budget

FACTS ABOUT BABU

1. Well, his real name is Paul Ongili, and not Babu Owino.

2. He is the current Sonu (Students Organisation for Nairobi University) chairman, a position he won after a 2-year academic hiatus.

3. This is his second term in office as Sonu chairman. He was first elected in 2011.

4. He is the only student in the University of Nairobi’s history to be re-elected for a second one-year term.

5. He also chairs the national universities’ umbrella body, the Kenya University Students Organisation (Kuso).

6. He is currently pursuing a second degree at Nairobi University’s law school, having graduated with a first class honours in actuarial science. Re-enrolling for the second degree qualified him to contest for a second term in office.

7. He is a self-proclaimed student millionaire with many questioning the sources of his wealth.

8. He unsuccessfully vied for the Westlands parliamentary seat on an ODM ticket in the 2013 general election. He lost the contest to Tim Wanyonyi, Senator Moses Wetangula’s brother.

That’s Babu Owino. Maybe using an old name has benefits too.

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