AFED CODE OF CONDUCT

CODE OF CONDUCT

The shall have power to regulate its proceedings and make standing orders with respect to AFED member schools operations and management.

Any member who does or attempt to do any act, counsel, persuades, encourages, organizes, mobilizes or pressures another member members voluntarily join(s) another to misrepresent accuse or distort the details, purports of any questions or issues deliberated by the association or the consensus reached thereon or member there present shall be liable to a fine of five thousand (N5000.00) only.

If any group or individuals under any guise carries out any wanton act or tortuous act against AFEDIAN MEMBER for reasons that he/she is a member of AFED, the association shall stand by giving him/her all necessary financial, moral and legal support and advise until the case is finally disposed of provided the association is promptly and duty informed of such criminal behaviour against against him or her.

Any member of the association found guilty of misappropriation of the association's money shall, not with standing the repayment of such money to the treasury be liable to a fine of five thousand naira (N5000.00) only or (20%) twenty percent of the sum misappropriated or which ever is higher and shall not be competent to hold any office what so ever in the association for a minimum period of ten (10) years.

Any member who accepts to admit a pupil(s) from another member school without express debt clearance shall collect such debt owed by such pupils and pay same to the member school where such debt was owed. his/her failure shall amount to his/her paying back with the school fees he/she collected from such pupil(s).where he/she fail to meet this obligation, he/she shall refuse such pupil(s) admission into his/her school advise same to go back to their former school to settle their debt before seeking admission to any school of their choice.

Any member who fails or refuse to carry out a given function/s or having in custody the association's property fails to surrender same to the General Secretary or the President or any other person(s) as determined by the association shall be liable to a fine of five thousand (N5000.00) naira and in addition pay for the cost of such property.

Negligence of duty shall be considered by the executive council and appropriate action taken depending on the degree of the offence.

Fighting among members is strictly prohibited. Any member found guilty in respect thereof shall be liable to a fine of two thousand (N2000.00) naira only without option or excuse.

Late coming to meetings at all levels shall attract a fine of fifty naira (N50.00) only except otherwise stated and agreed by the house at any level.

The President's Controller's Chairman's and coordinator's ruling is final on any matter respectively and any member who challenges his authority and fails to comply with such ruling shall be liable to a fine of five hundred (N500.00) naira only. Where an officer resigns from office without genuine reasons(s) he/she shall be liable to a fine of five hundred (N500.00) naira only.

Any member found guilty of insulting the house or the president, controller, chairman, coordinator as the case may be during meetings shall be liable to a fine of five hundred (N500.00) naira and in addition send a written letter of apology to the house or be suspended. While any proven case of threat to life gossips and blackmail against a member by another member shall attract a fine of Two thousand Naira (N2000.00) without option whether it is within or outside the meeting vicinity.

Any member found using obscene and abusive language on another member shall be liable to a fine of five hundred Naira (N500.00) only.

Appeal against punishments or cases could be made to the executive committee who, after considering same makes appropriate recommendation to the general house and where the matter is not settle, a consensus committee shall be set up for final resolution and their decision is final and shall be binding to all parties.

Any member shall confine his/her observation to the subject under discussion and may not introduce any matter irrelevant thereof.

It shall be out or order to attempt to raise for consideration any specific question upon which the association has come to a conclusion during a sitting except under special circumstances.

A member shall exhibit his/her desire to speak by the officer (President, Controller, Chairman, Coordinators) address his observation to him.

It shall be out of order for two or more members to rise at the same time to speak.

Any member deviating from the question under debate or provision of his section may be immediately called to order by the provost or by a member rising to a "POINT OF ORDER" direct attention to the point he desires to bring to notice and submit to the President to whom it may concern for a decision, after which he/she who was addressing the house at the time the question was raised shall be entitled to proceed with his/her speech giving effect to the ruling from the floor.

During any sitting all members shall enter and leave meeting venue with decorum.

Members shall not cross the floor of the meeting unnecessarily.

During any sitting, all members shall be silent.

Members shall not read newspaper in meeting and shall only read books and letters as may be connected with the business under debate.

Members shall not make unseemly interruptions while any member is speaking.

The President's ruling on any matter is final but where such matter(s) is/are controversial a “CONSENSUS COMMITTE� shall be appointed by the house to look into it and submit it's report to the executive committee within a stipulated period of time for final solution of the matter in question.

Whenever the president rises during a debate , any member(s) then speaking or offering to speak shall sit down and the meeting shall remain silent so that the president shall be heard without interruption. This is effective at all levels of governance in the association.

Strangers are not permitted to proceeding in the house except at the discretion of the president or whoever is presiding at all levels.

Failure to attend state, chapter or zonal meetings by executives for the 1st instance a fine (for 3 consecutive times. Failing to change earns suspension indefinitely.

Any delay in remitting dues, monthly, termly or yearly as the case may be by any level shall earn such officer at such level indefinite suspension.

Late coming to meetings at national, State, chapter and zone attracts fine to be determined by the respective tiers of governments.

Monthly reports from chapters to state of affairs in their respective domain including updates of new members and photocopies of meetings, minutes, names of schools and address of new members to be forwarded to state for appropriate action and documentation, for instance of membership registration certificate & ID cards with evidence of registration fee payment.

Zones & chapters must ensure that a new entrants into the business satisfies all the laid down condition of entry before opening for business. Otherwise Task Force Constituted for that purposed should ensure the closure of such schools.

All members of the association must attend all scheduled meetings of the association except where permission either verbally or written has been approved by the controller, coordinator, chapter chairman/chairwoman or president or to their secretaries and his must be indicated in the meeting of that day in the column of “absent with apology�.

No member of AFED shall belong to any parallel association for the purpose of continuity, consolidation, growth and security. Any member found guilty of this and is not prepared to retrace his/her steps should be excommunicated and must not be allowed to attend any of the association meetings, function or ceremonies. Any executive found aiding and abating such one shall be sanctioned with indefinite suspension for causing or constituting a breach of security to the association. Reported cases should be treated with urgent dispatch.

Ex-leaders who for one reason or the other constitute themselves as destablishing agents to the growth and stability of AFED shall lose their judiciary benefits from AFED.

All immediate past executives (President, Controllers, Chairperson and other officers must take immediate and appropriate actions not later than two weeks to hand over to the newly elected executives, after their official inauguration by the appropriate boy. ( Chapter to be inaugurated by state, zones by the chapters)

all national, state or chapter executives must attend their respective zonal, chapter meetings and must pay their termly dues to their zones as at when due, except such meeting date coincide with their own meeting at national, state or chapter as the case may be. Note that due respect must be accorded to positions at such meetings however, executive should know their boundaries not to commotions and confusions.

By reason of the fact that AFED caters for all unregistered schools operating in the land including some interested registered schools, it is imperative that all unregistered schools pay their dues and any resistance from any school(s) should be met with force by the appropriate task force to illicit cooperation.

AFED CORPORATE RESPONSIBILY: As an entity, the various executives at the various strata of organization (Zone, Chapter, State & National) must ensure they create a conducive working and social environment with all the organized institutions (traditional, legal, social, economic and political, media, educational, with their area of operation by picking interest and participating in some development efforts in the community. Interpersonal relationships with each sub-set of the system are highly encouraged. Press interviews, and release can only be done after due confirmation from the national/state, except mere coverage of events and matters not bordering on sensitive national or state issues.

Any school that charge daily schools fees shall be AFED members.

All new members must obtain and complete AFED MEMBERSHIP registration form, otherwise known as ELIGIBILITY FORM and which must be certified that all the prescribed conditions are met by the applicant before the prescribed fee shall be accepted. Applicant shall pay a non-refundable sum of N1,500.00 (N500 to state, N500 to chapter, N500 to zone) to collect form.

Poaching any member found to use under influence to canvass pupils/students or parents of pupils or students already in member schools shall be liable to a sanction/fine of N__________ and if after the first instance he/she persists, the association shall take a more drastic on the proprietor or proprietress.

(a) INDECENT BEHAVIOUR: Any proprietor found behaving carnal knowledge or harassing his/her female/male pupils or students sexually shall be expelled from the association and be handed over to the law enforcement agencies.

Minimum qualification a proprietor/proprietress (resident) should posses in order to open a school shall at least be (O/L, TC II)

Death: In the case of death, the association shall take care of such burial expenses as coffin and N50,000 cash. Each chapter member to pay N1000.

Harmonization: There shall be uniform school calender for all AFED member schools in terms of vacation, mid-term breaks and other holiday. This must however take into cognizance what the state ministry of education and the federal ministry of education has brought out. AFED exams board shall be charged with designing such with the approval of the executive council.

Social-economic misconduct: it shall be a serious offense if any member of AFED is found guilty or involved in any act capable of smearing or given AFED a bad image. Act such stealing, advanced examination malpractice, forgery, embezzlement, illegal collection of money from people, illegal misrepresentation of AFED for personal gains, unauthorized disclosure of information about AFED to the public, press, parallel association or to a person or group of persons to the detriment of AFED the culprit/shall be liable to a fine of N________________ and or an indefinite suspension from office if he/she is an office holder in AFED. Rumor mongers and peddlers of calumnious information and any other diversionary information shall be punished accordingly under this section.

New entrants into the business must ensue the followings guidelines are fully adhered to according to the guidelines of the ministry of education.

Must be

a. BUILDING: Purpose-built or converted as the case maybe with fence surrounding the premises. The shall be no commercial activities going on within the premises. This implies that all prefabricated buildings,churches,mosque,shops;classrooms raised on fences shall not be acceptable for registration.

b. There must be enough playground and play facilities for the children's recreation.

c. The building must consists at least twelve (12) classrooms for a start, which must be well ventilated for the health of the children.

d. The proposed school must ensure it is about 100 metres away from existing school.

e. No two or more schools close by may be allowed to put on the same kind of uniform. Where such situation arises, the one that is first established that has been using such said material may be adjudged the owner of such uniform, even when a change of uniform is involved.

48. MEMBERS, WELFARE & DEVELOPMENT

a. Pursuant to the provisions of the association's constitution, the association on a regular interval shall organize and organize and conduct seminars, workshops, lectures, symposia, debate, quiz contest, for purposes of educating, enlightenment, dissemination, sensitization of the members in order to maintan and improve on standard of education of member schools. To complement this , individual proprietor/proprietress is encouraged to register with tertiary institutions in order to improve their academic standing to be able to withstand the challenges of the profession. Members must see the profession not only as source of daily bread but most importantly, as builders of nations who must necessarily posses the where withal and the know-how to execute this noble and divine job.



b.REVOLVING LOAN SCHEME: the association shall organize and operate a revolving loan scheme, which every member of the association is expected to subscribe. The scheme, which shall be handled by the finance department of the association; shall provide soft loans to contributing members from time for the purpose of developing their schools. This shall be monitored and supervised by the committee charged with the responsibility to manage the collection and disbursement of the fund to approved applicants with a surety either in persons or viable assets. Full details of the scheme shall be given in the scheme brochure.



c. Housing warming, house opening, naming/graduation & burial ceremonies: in all of the above, the association shall not give the celebrant a specific sum of money but upon official invitation, the members of the zone, chapter, state/national shall make an internal arrangement by tasking themselves any amount they can afford to assist or support the affected member. However, all members within the zone must attend if the place is within the state and where it is outside the state, delegation not less than 10 members must be sent. Members who fail to attend are liable to N1000.00 fine if no tenable excuse was approved by the house earlier. Burial here refers to deaths other than those of proprietors or proprietress but of their relations or parents.



49 . SPORT & GAMES

For the purpose of unification, friendliness, consolidation, recreation and moral rectitude, the association shall organize and execute sports and sporting activities throughout its length and breadth in the state and latter beyond once in a year at a designated time. The game shall include football, table tennis, hockey, badminton, basketball, relay, track and field, and shall be handled by the sports committee with units at the chapters and zone respectively. The committee charge shall ensure it seeks sponsorship from all education related agencies and organizations to ensure a successful outings as well creating a good corporate personality for AFED.

AFED VENTURES

The association shall venture into procurement, production, marketing\sales of educational tools and materials at a competitive cost for the members and such material shall carry the names and emblem of the association. Materials such as attendance and admission registers, dairies, time-tables, chalk, log-book, visitors note books, educational policies state and federal and other stationery necessary for our operation.

BALANCE EDUCATION:

a. The association believes in balanced education, it shall embank on outside activities beside the classroom. To this end, the association shall from time to time organize state, chapter or zonal excursions to place of interest and significance such as resort centers, libraries, parks work places in industries. The association shall organize an end of every year get-together at a choice hotel and shall invite some government functionaries indefinable traditional rulers and cheifs with the presence of a select member of the media house. This party shall be jointly sponsored by the state, chapter, national and zone for the purpose of presenting awards to deserving members of the society and members.

MEETINGS

NATIONAL: There shall be a regular meeting of Nat-Executive Council once every month, made up of the Nat. Execo only, Nat General Executive council, made up of both Nat. Execo and the state controlles, once in a month.

STATE: There shall also be a regular meeting of the state Executive Council, made up of the state Execo only, once in a month, state Gen. Executive Council, made up of chapter Chairmen\Chairwomen once in a month and state Execo and zonal coordinators meeting once in three months. Times & date for such meeting shall be determined by various levels of authority.

AFED WORKING COMMITEES

The conduct\operations of the association shall be handled by competent committee set up to the effect; each of the committee whose members shall be drawn from within and outside the execo shall have a member of the execo as the chairman\chairwoman. The head of such committee is to report to the Executive Council the conducts\ operations of the committee is to report to the Executive Council the conducts\operations of the committee once in a month. The committee shall formulate, supervise and or execute programmes or projects that are of benefit to AFED and its members; however this shall be subject to the approval of the Executive Council, of such projects or programmes. Each of the committee shall be made up of at most seven (7) persons with appropriate qualifications and experience.

The committee shall include:-

INSPECTORATE COMMITTEE: (a) Monitoring Team site inspection ( before and after establishment) (b) task Force © Investigation

FINANCE COMMITTEE: (a) Accounts (b) Credit Control © Auditing (d) Banking service (e) savings and Loan schemes (eg. Multi-purpose Cooperative Society).

EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Unified and any other exams within AFED (Zone Chapter, State or National)

PERSONNEEL DEV. COMMITTEE: Seminals, Workshops, Lecture, Colloquium, Enlightenment Campaigns etc.

PUBLICATION COMMITTEE: (a) Stationery (b) National Directory © Calendars (d) Diaries (e) Leaf lets\hand\posters\banner (f) Registers (g) Note of lessons (h) Sign Boards (i) Statutory Record (j) Year planner etc.

MEDIA RELATIONS COMMITTEE: (a) Press Relations ( Print and electronic) (b) Press Release © House Journal production (d) Cinematography and Photography (e) Public Relations ( Internal and External) (f) Press Events – press conference, press reception, press facility visits, excursions, opinion polls etc.

SPORTS AND GAMES COMMITTEE: (a) football (b) Games © Athletics etc.

CONSTITUTION\CODE OF CONDUCT\ELECTION COMMITTEE:

HARMONIZATION ( Zones, States and National committee

ESTABLISHMENT COMMITTEE: AFED \ Govt. Rels.

(a) Welfare\Motivation\Discipline

(b) Personeel Affairs\Collation of Reports from commitees

© Projects Review and evaluation\Awards of Contracts.

29. EXECUTION \ IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECT\PROGRAMMES

Projects\ programmes that require special skill and expertise shall be contracted to a contractor(s) to handle for the purpose of effficiency and effectiveness and promptness in all jobs valued twenty thousand (N20,000) Naira and above.

LI interested contractor shall register with the finance committee of the association with a non-refundable sum of ten thousand (N10,000) Naira renewable every year before such contractor shall be considered for job after due competition. Contractor shall fill and return AFED contract Registration form indicating their areas of specialization. All jobs valued twenty thousand Naira and above shall be by cheque. Job mobilization shall not exceed sixty (60%) percent and the balance forty (40%) percent after delivery or commissioning.