This commission provides all enlightenment and information services (active, passive, and advisory) with respect to public and individual health and fitness promotions. It creates and reviews all intended enlightenment promotion programs and posts for authenticity to improve ORGANIC HEALTH and FITNESS in the community. It researches and shares valid and reputable procedures from both African and non-African organic health as the community promises to align more with improved health based on natural balance, and age more in the path of natural process with natural ending. Members shall contact the SC for verification of information, immediate first aid health needs, and advice where and when needed, particularly when hospital attention is not readily available. HAFCOM shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main function.
It shall provide hotlines for NNUBUNTU community members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
ESACO shall provide hotlines for NNUBUNTU community members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Education Commission (EDUCOM): This commission provides all educational and information services (active, passive, and advisory). It reviews all intended educational and information promotion posts intended to support and develop the cognitive and intellectual capacity of the community. It oversees the development of educational materials intended for mental and intellectual development of the community in the context of African ubuntu values and character.
We believe that the core essence of education is to discover and develop one’s inherent aptitudes and use them to add values and meaning to life around them; hence fulfilling the purpose of one’s life to humanity. Unfortunately, as Africans, the education handed to us are such that makes us desire to become someone else and work against ourselves. The education that teaches us a lot about other people’s ability and the need to depend entirely on others and not work to add value to others. Hence, making us not fitting for our environment, culture, and African spirit. How can a lion be taught how to swim to catch fishes in the river for food, yet he does not know how to hunt games under his nose in the forest for food. We also believe that what we have is education without character. The reason we are taught how to hunt selfishly to destroy others and not selflessly to make others. In the new NNUBUNTU Education system, education without character is a disaster to the society.
So, the education culture and system that helps us discover ourselves, our gifts, talents, and environment for the purpose of lifting others is the responsibility of the EDUCOM, with support from the ACOR. EDUCOM shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main function. EDUCOM shall provide hotlines for NNUBUNTU community members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Agricultural and Land Resource (AGROLAR) commission: This commission provides all enlightenment and support services (active, passive, and advisory) required to encourage members in Agricultural practices within the African context. It reviews all programs and promotion posts intended to support members with ideas to encourage domestic farming that could ensure food security among members. The commission is also the hub for sharing Agricultural ideas and advisory consultations. We are blessed to be the food basket of the world, yet it is in news that our beloved go to bed hungry.
AGOLAR is charged to lift the NNUBUNTU community out of hunger and be self-sufficient; hence leading the way to food security for the rest of the Nigerian and African citizens. The commission shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main framework. AGROLAR shall provide hotlines for NNUBUNTU community members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Finance Commission (FINCOM): The NNUBUNTU community is designed to depend more on the kind services and support of members to each other as an organic community; thus, less dependent on money. However, there may be occasions where members with financial capacity may wish to support certain exceptional needs and projects with finance, especially if such services are not readily available in kind from the community or around the location of the needs. For such foreseen situations and the likes, the FINCOM is responsible to review, approve, and account all financial expenses of the community. The commission is the sole commission to formally indicate the need for finances and initiate a free-will donation programme for specific projects or programme for the community. It provides all administrative and management services with respect to finances and shares financial reports and bank statements publicly with the community on quarterly basis through designated platforms for transparent reviews and scrutiny by members.
At the moment, the community runs an account under the established banking account and facility created by the mother host (the Golden ROLE Africa) within its banking facilities, but with time, the commission may decide to create a seperate financial and banking system. The commission shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main function.
FINCOM shall provide hotlines for NNUBUNTU community members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Social Welfare Commission (SOWCOM)
As stated earlier, financial support will be highly restricted, but value support services highly promoted. This is a model that promises to promote the Ubuntu principles. Hence, the SOWCOM reviews all social welfare needs and situations from underprivileged or needy members for eligibility toward community support through SOWCOM. Members are encouraged to provide social support to each other without passing through SOWCOM; however, SOWCOM may identify special needs beyond individual members capacity and call for planned or urgent collective support actions. Such cases are not the types in which members arbitrarily seek financial aids. Such cases include court cases needing legal aid team for justice, education issues needing enrollments, police matters needing arbitrations, accident cases needing emergency aids or bills to save life, security situations needing government attention, and the likes.
For any situation needing financial support, the SOWCOM reviews them and sends recommendations to FINCOM who provides final assessment and approval for disbursement. Members who have no good transparent records of character and supporting others in kind services may not be eligible for such benefits; however, such members may present thorough and convincing evidence to SOWCOM to be eligible for SOWCOM interventions. SOWCOM shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main framework.
SOWCOM shall provide hotlines for NNUBUNTU community members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Attitude and Character Orientation and Resolution (ACOR) Commission
This commission is the hub of all orientations, enlightenments, advisories, and personality support services (active and passive) required to encourage members in developing and strengthening their attitude and character rooted in Ubuntu values. ACOR provides advisories and counselling to members, especially the youths, needing help with mental, behavioural, and emotional support and advisories that enhance their healthy relationships with people and the society at large. They may also work with CIRCOM in reviewing civil matters associated with general attitudes and relationships with other members and proffer suggestions or resolutions directly to members or through CIRCOM. They shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main function.
ACOR shall provide hotlines for NNUBUNTU community members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Civil Investigation and Peace Resolution Commission (CIRCOM)
CIRCOM receives and addresses all civil cases or cases of breakdown and distrust in relationship between or among members of the community. Members who have any issues of betrayal or trust, suspected fraud, dissatisfaction in business relationships, and the likes are encouraged to report to the CIRCOM for review, investigation, and adjudication and judgement in the fairest and unbiased state of mind. CIRCOM could resort to ACOR for attitude interpretations between parties in question and request their opinions and recommendations to guide CIRCOM’s resolutions.
Members are strongly encouraged to attempt to resolve cases privately and avoid public / community attention. However, if cases cannot be resolved privately among members and brought to CIRCOM’s attention, CIRCOM attempts to swiftly resolve the cases between parties within one (1) week, with parties accepting CIRCOM’s resolution. However, when this initial attempt does not work for the parties / members involved, CIRCOM shall fix a transparent / public virtual hearing session via Zoom or any video conferencing application set up by ICTCOM for public attendance. The date of the session shall be communicated through PRAM.
In the public hearing session, the parties shall air their cases and the final resolution and decision on the case shall be provided by the CIRCOM leadership. All virtual cases shall be live, recorded, stored, and uploaded to the NNUBUNTU Community Youtube Channel created by the ICTCOM for future references.
However, to ensure high level of fairness and acceptability of the NNUBUNTU community justice system, if any party (member or group) in the case is not happy with the decision of the CIRCOM, the member is encouraged to appeal to SOLEJ for another review of CIRCOM’s arbitration and decision. SOLEJ sets a date for their transparent and public judgment through PRAM, and makes another open judgement in a virtual session as CIRCOM.
SOLEJ is not a supreme judgment in any case but to bring more confidence in the Justice system. So, in situation of agreement with the CIRCOM, the resolutions become final and executed as judged. But in situations of disagreement between CIRCOM and SOLEJ, the community who followed the cases shall openly cast votes of Judgement (VOJ) in such cases in the platform. The ELECOM shall conduct this poll and the decisions of the people announced publicly in the community, and this becomes the final resolution/judgement in case.
Any party found guilty shall be referred to the DCOM for restitution and disciplinary actions based on the recommendations of the justice commissions.
NOTE: Judgements and resolutions in this community does not replace the justice system of our beloved country, Nigeria. So, members are free to take up their cases beyond the NNUBUNTU community justice system. However, all decisions in the community stands, so long as members wish to remain part of the community, and we work to ensure that members are loved and cared for with the best justice rooted in great sense of responsibility and humanity.
CIRCOM shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main framework. The commission shall provide hotlines for members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Disciplinary Commission – DCOM
DCOM implements, executes, and monitors all disciplinary actions and restitutions recommended by the CIRCOM and SOLEJ if any case is held publicly and member is eventually found guilty. In addition to implementing the disciplinary actions as recommended by CIRCOM or SOLEJ, DCOM has the power to review the actions for better restitutions; hence, the commission can review downwards, upwards, or accept the recommendations of the CIRCOM and/or SOLEJ to accurately reflect the severity of the threat of the act to the community and improve restitution that ensures more peaceful co-existence and safety of the community members. In all, all our judgements and proposed restitutions and disciplinaries shall be issued with human face in the tenets of the Ubuntu values that bind us together as a community. The DCOM shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main framework.
DCOM shall provide hotlines for NNUBUNTU community members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
ICT Commission (ICTCOM)
This commission shall be in charge of the management, execution, and provisions of all Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ideas toward the effective and efficient administration and coordination of the community. ICTCOM shall provide enlightenment, orientation, ideas, contents, developments, and practical services (active and passive) on the safe use of ICT to enhance and facilitate the operations of the community through online and offline system applications, and provide advice and services toward an improved virtual community management, but in a way that improves our trust and efficiency in physical relations.
We believe we have more than enough technology in the world now to make human beings happy, yet we are not. There is still so much strife and insatiability among humans. With more technology, we become less humans and more animalistic in our instincts. So, now, we need more technology than ever to make life more human than being easy. We need technology to help us become more humans by becoming more selfless, patient, forgiving, tolerant, supportive, loving, humane, sacrificial, respectful, compassionate etc. Now, the ball is on the court of the ICT commission to create ideas and applications that will help the community members become better humans than before. That is what the operational framework is all about. The commission shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main function.
ICTCOM shall provide hotlines for NNUBUNTU community members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Technical and Vocational Services Commission (TAVOCOM)
This commission is the hub of trustworthy and honest vocational and technical services (mostly Artisan services) available in the NNUBUNTU community. Any member who needs any such services within his/her physical area or environment could contact the TAVOCOM for recommendations. It is the responsibility of members to provide feedback on the satisfaction in the quality of services received from their members for records and future recommendations. TAVOCOM provides expert professional and trusted services (Not pro bono except decided by the service provider) in all technical and vocational services such as auto-mechanic, furniture work, building and construction services (mason, tiling, labourers, painting, etc.), catering, fashion and designing, beauty services, etc. TAVOCOM also supports members with pro bono technical advice to inform their best decisions in their choices of solutions in their service needs.
The commission shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main function. TAVOCOM shall provide hotlines for members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Society and Culture Commission (SACCOM)
SACCOM shall provide enlightenment, orientation, and other support services (active, passive, and advisory) toward the promotion of core African culture in the community. This commission is occupied by members who are passionate about the African culture and heritage and love to nurture and promote those values. Africa is our identity. Our original way of life as Africans and Nigerians was beautiful, though not perfect. However, if nature did not deny us our heritage, technology and modern foreign civilization should not. They should actually appreciate our nature and nurture as Africans. So, we look forward to greater opportunities to learning about Nigerian diversified and beautiful culture and our heritage and the beauty of a Nation with different beautiful colours from SACCOM. We welcome the gracious promotional services and programmes from SACCOM.
They shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main function. SACCOM shall provide hotlines for members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions in to general community.
Public Relations and Media (PRAM) Commission.
This commission is the official Town Crier of the NNUBUNTU community. It is the link between the NNUBUNTU Community and the World. It is the mouth piece of the community for official and formal communication to the members of the community and the external communities including the conventional and social media world. Every official communication believing to represent the NNUBUNTU community’s view and position shall pass through PRAM after reviews and approval by the AMCO and the relevant commission directly concerned with the communication. PRAM shall also be responsible for NNUBUNTU magazine publications, documentaries, media reports, and any other services that projects our public and global image whenever required.
The commission shall also provide creative graphic designs, animations, videos, or images to tell our stories better and promote our public image and relations. Any communications from individual members or commissions that does not pass through PRAM only reflects the views and positions of the individuals or commissions concerned. PRAM shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main function.
It shall also provide hotlines to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Electoral Commission (ELECOM)
This commission conducts all electoral and polling functions required by the community. Polling services range from simple opinion polls among members of the community about certain decisions or operations to significant electoral operations to choose a chief serving member (CSM) among nominated members for the service positions in every commission. The CSMs direct and coordinate the services of their SCs with his/her fellow key serving members (KSMs) and other members of the respective commissions.
In the context of service from the SCs (service commissions), there are three types of members in each commission – the regular members (RMs), KSMs, and the CSM. All the member types are equal but have different responsibilities which are rotatory to ensure that every member has equal chance and opportunity to happily serve others in the commissions they belong.
There shall be ten (10) KSMs in each service dispensation in every commission. RMs of each commission shall nominate members for KSM responsibilities. If more than 10 RMs are nominated, the service commission will invite ELECOM to conduct a transparent poll for them to identify 10 KSMs through election in the service commission. A designated member of the ELECOM shall be given administrative right to conduct the poll and announce the winner in the SCs, after which the ELECOM member shall be disengaged from the groups’ administrative team.
Similarly, the ELECOM conducts elections for the choice of CSMs in all the service commissions. All the commissions’ RMs, not only the KSMs, shall vote for their CSMs. Every KSM is automatically eligible to serve as a potential CSM; hence, all KSMs shall stand for election as potential CSMs by the RMs of the commission.
Each service team of the commissions, except the AMCOM, shall serve for a maximum of two (2) years before another service team is democratically nominated and elected. Due to the sensitivity and security of handling members sensitive information and to ensure that all developmental mission of the community is fully set-up and stabilized, the pioneer AMCO KSMs shall run for the first 4 years to be able to train and develop the right attitudinal capacity and sufficient confidence in the upcoming KSMs to maintain the stipulated level of integrity and vision required to drive this commission. After the first 4 years, the commission shall reverse to the usual 2-year service period like other commissions.
In all commissions, any RM who has served as a KSM is not eligible to be nominated for service again until after 4 years. However, in rare occasions in which there is strong call-back of any KSM by the service commission RMs to serve another 2-years, subject to the KSM’s acceptance, the KSM can serve another 2-years before stepping down for another 4 years. Strong call-back is defined by 70% support poll by RMs. But the KSM shall be allowed to accept and decline the community call and whichever he/she chooses, becomes the final action taken on that.
Members are nominated in key services for honorary responsibilities and services based on their demonstrations and evidence of the Ubuntu Character and Attitude toward others.
In a situation of incapitation or disability to serve by a current CSM or KSM, the same process of nomination for replacement and election will be repeated accordingly.
Similarly, ELECOM is invited to conduct simple opinion polls in any service commission and in the general platform for affairs and opinions of significant importance to the larger community. Its functions are also extended to the structural operational commissions such as States and Local Governments communities whenever those are ready to be set up. Any such election or collective opinion not conducted by the ELECOM shall not be recognized.
ELECOM shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main framework. It shall also provide hotlines for NNUBUNTU community members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Planning and Events Commission (PECOM)
PECOM provides all planning, organization, and logistics services (active and passive) and all advisory services associated with this role. PECOM shall be physically involved in the planning and assessment of all event items and vendor services associated with planning, particularly of the state, national, and international conferences when we grow to hold international conferences with other UBUNTU communities in the African continent. PECOM shall spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main function.
PECOM shall provide hotlines to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (MECOM)
MECOM provides a very important function in monitoring the integrity and formation of the operations of the community and functionality of the various service commissions. It shall monitor and assess the functionality of the service commissions in accordance to their responsibilities and operational framework guiding their services.
MECOM assesses the fidelity and operations of commissions and share reports and recommendations with the service commissions only. MECOM also assesses and validates reports of exceptional Ubuntu services shared by members about other members through the online CHAIR reports. MECOM is the process accountability arm of the community. MECOM is the authentic record keeper of members integrity profiles and the diary for community historical data and events. Members can contact MECOM for authentic information with regards to the above.
The commission designs their approach and processes, as well as spell out the details of their responsibilities under this main farmwork. It shall provide hotlines for NNUBUNTU community members to reach the commission via calls or Instant Social Media chats when necessary. The commission shall create a designated work media platform for its members only in order to coordinate and facilitate their functions to the general community.
Structural and Operational Communities – (States and LGAs) – STATELOC
There shall be State and LGA sub-communities to step-down the services and benefits of the community to sub community levels that will help bring the community closer to members and give members enhanced sense of belonging. The STATELOC communities operate in equal functionality and responsibility as the Overall National community. States and LGAs are based on States and LGAs of Residence and not origin. Areas of residence is preferred to promote physical cooperations and relations of members within their areas of current existence; hence, the communities could request for or provide support within the areas of a members’ current residence and not origin where he or she may not exist at the occasions of need.
STATELOCs mimics the functional structure of the general community; hence, forming same service commissions and protocols at same state and LGA levels. A STATELOC is ripe to be formed when their residents are up to 100 members. AMCO shall monitor this population size and advise when the NNUBUNTU community is eligible for extension into a STATELOC. The pioneer KSMs and CSM shall be nominated and elected immediately, following electoral protocols as described above under ELECOM, and their KS teams continue to coordinate other setup of the STATELOC as stipulated in this framework.
Each KSM of each service commissions shall be assigned to support 3-4 states; hence, each KSM is also part of the administrative team of 3 – 4 states. So, the State Administrative team shall constitute the state coordinator from the AMCO and seventeen (17) other KSMs from other service commissions. In total, each State Administrative team is made up of 18 members. Main eligibility for state assignment is residency in the state.
Every NNUBUNTU member shall belong to at least one service commission in which he/she finds passion, and from where they provide their expert services to the community. All members of each commission shall be experts and professionals or trained artisans in that field.
No political authority shall be involved besides our hearts of gold to love and care for others in service. Service members shall enjoy the respect of the community earned through their diligent and humble services.
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