This is how Student Leaders are turned corrupt and cannot be saved

In my 3rd year in campus, I got into the Student Governing Council, serving as a Communications and PR Chief for the student organisation. Not a good title as such, especially in a country where the tag “PR” is misconstrued as “Public Propaganda and twisted spin-doctoring”. Anyway, that is trivial to the matter at hand.

As much as Student leadership is something I once dreaded and cynically criticised, this one was a good opportunity to learn a lot, some of which are secrets you go with to the grave.  Once you get here, there’s a certain conception, misconception and perception that is developed about you, by your ‘subjects’, comrades themselves, friends, relatives and the society at large. Agreeably, your responsibilities increase considerably, but then people’s expectations become enormous. Some of these expectations are way above impossible. When others elevate you to small student god and start seeing you as a moneyed personage who should folk out cash everywhere then the wrong turn begins.