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Oct 16, 2018
Scholarship / Tax awareness and law clinic - CHEVENING ESSAY ON LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE [6]
Leadership by Robin S. Sharma is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration; Impact involves getting results, influence is spreading the passion you have for your work, and to inspire team-mates..." Steve Jobs further said "Innovation is what distinguishes a leader and a follower." This is my ideology about leadership and these quotes shows that leadership is about innovative ways to serve and bring happiness to the greatest number of people.
Over the years, the issue of community justice has been paramount in the community where my university is located which was why I was actively involved in my faculty's clinical activities and it led to my appointment as Manager of the faculty's law clinic which is the Social Justice Arm of the Faculty in my fourth year where led over 100 students. My activities as a manager led to prison visitation which led to the release of 11 prisoners that have been in prison for a long time awaiting trial. The release was the highest ever recorded in the history of the law clinic and was facilitated because I suggested we collaborated with the Legal Aid Council and the Chief Judge of the State. This was a build on the Pre-trial activities which include regular Prison Visits to provide free legal services for inmates awaiting trial and those on trial, to secure the release of indigents who were victims of police harassment and have been unlawfully detained.
Further to this is the innovation I brought to the law clinic was the idea of "project live love" which was to celebrate Valentine's Day with gifts and food supplies at the school of the physically disabled in a nearby community which is the first of its kind in the law clinic. Though the idea came late before Valentine's Day, I was able to raise a substantial amount within four days for the purchase of food, provision and relief items for the disabled.
Being the manager of the law clinic, I ensured we visited all the schools within and around the community to sensitize school children on Child Rights. I also coordinated several enlightenment programme on the Freedom of Information Act, 2011 in which I spoke and enlightened people about the importance and how to effectively use the Freedom of Information Act 2011 to make the government accountable.
My innovation on the use of tax awareness as a means to improve the country's tax base lead to the re-introduction of the Enlightenment and Engagement Tax Team whose primary aim is to go out and talk to the public about paying tax and other means of communication which tremendously improved the country's revenue generation through taxation.
I have a passion to make my society a better place beginning with my immediate sphere of influence and gaining the Chevening Scholarship would help me learn and discover more on leadership as wells as a platform to meet world great leaders and other upcoming young great leaders.
"Innovation is what distinguishes a leader and a follower."
Leadership by Robin S. Sharma is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration; Impact involves getting results, influence is spreading the passion you have for your work, and to inspire team-mates..." Steve Jobs further said "Innovation is what distinguishes a leader and a follower." This is my ideology about leadership and these quotes shows that leadership is about innovative ways to serve and bring happiness to the greatest number of people.
Over the years, the issue of community justice has been paramount in the community where my university is located which was why I was actively involved in my faculty's clinical activities and it led to my appointment as Manager of the faculty's law clinic which is the Social Justice Arm of the Faculty in my fourth year where led over 100 students. My activities as a manager led to prison visitation which led to the release of 11 prisoners that have been in prison for a long time awaiting trial. The release was the highest ever recorded in the history of the law clinic and was facilitated because I suggested we collaborated with the Legal Aid Council and the Chief Judge of the State. This was a build on the Pre-trial activities which include regular Prison Visits to provide free legal services for inmates awaiting trial and those on trial, to secure the release of indigents who were victims of police harassment and have been unlawfully detained.
Further to this is the innovation I brought to the law clinic was the idea of "project live love" which was to celebrate Valentine's Day with gifts and food supplies at the school of the physically disabled in a nearby community which is the first of its kind in the law clinic. Though the idea came late before Valentine's Day, I was able to raise a substantial amount within four days for the purchase of food, provision and relief items for the disabled.
Being the manager of the law clinic, I ensured we visited all the schools within and around the community to sensitize school children on Child Rights. I also coordinated several enlightenment programme on the Freedom of Information Act, 2011 in which I spoke and enlightened people about the importance and how to effectively use the Freedom of Information Act 2011 to make the government accountable.
My innovation on the use of tax awareness as a means to improve the country's tax base lead to the re-introduction of the Enlightenment and Engagement Tax Team whose primary aim is to go out and talk to the public about paying tax and other means of communication which tremendously improved the country's revenue generation through taxation.
I have a passion to make my society a better place beginning with my immediate sphere of influence and gaining the Chevening Scholarship would help me learn and discover more on leadership as wells as a platform to meet world great leaders and other upcoming young great leaders.