{UAH} any UNAA Executive can expel a UNAA member

Just before the convention, I wrote an email to the Board of Trustees (BoT) bringing their attention to the plight of a UNAA member that had been expelled by Ms Nairuba, the UNAA Secretary. In my submission, I explained to the BoT that Ms Nairuba did not have powers to expel any member. But as has been the norm, the BoT did not bother to respond to my email. 

However, I had a chance to talk to Mr Wilson about that matter and he told me that the BoT had looked into the matter and determined that the clearly laid out procedure for expelling members under Section 3.6 was actually irrelevant to expelling members...i.e the BoT was not required to abide by that clear provision for expelling members.  This is a rather strange but dangerous precedent set by the BoT!

Background:

The concerned member had been part of the Transformers. After the convention in Denver, the BoT chairman talked to him about ways of bringing the Transformers back to UNAA.  In June of this year, the member asked his close friend (Rev Kamugisha) what he could do to get back into UNAA...Mr Kamugisha advised him to approach the UNAA Council to inquire if the Council had expelled him (under Article 3.6, it is the Council that has powers to expel members).  The Council informed him that he'd never been expelled so he paid for the convention. Subsequently, Ms Nairuba told him he'd been expelled. She did not provide ANY written document to that effect. Other members of the Executive informed us that no such decision had ever been made by the Executive.

However, according to Mr Wilson, the BoT (as the appellate body) ruled that the expulsion was proper!  That means that any ONE member of the Executive can expel a UNAA member...go figure!  Since the BoT has the power to interprete the constitution, the BoT's decision is UNAA's law.

Qn: if any member of the Executive can expel a member, why do we need the CLEAR Article in the constitution relating to expelling members?  Why would the BoT use an obscure Article that contrasts a very clear provision on the process for expelling members?

thanks

 

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