This is my rejoinder to Ms Prima West’s response to my article \u201cSAFSI PRESIDENT PRIMA WEST\u00a0 REFUSES TO PERFORM HER ROLE,” [which was] published in the July issue of your much acclaimed publication.<\/p>\n
Since Ms West, it seems, is more responsive to have this communication through the media, I owe it to the readers to reply and correct, again, her confused and ill-advised pronouncements.<\/p>\n
Point 1. <\/strong>Ms West wrote that “It would be totally irresponsible of me as current president to provide her with answers that have not been checked and properly investigated.”<\/em> Firstly, I did not ask questions to her and therefore I was not asking for her answers. So what was she going to check and investigate? I was merely requesting to have a meeting with SAFSI management committee of which she is the President.<\/p>\n Point 2.<\/strong> Ms West seems to insist that “any personal issues between members remain private and internal,”<\/em> <\/em>insinuating that the issue at hand is personal. I repeat my explanation for Ms West\u2019s understanding: A SAFSI member made an allegation that a former officer of SAFSI committed fraud by illegally using organisation funds for her personal gain which was in breach of SAFSI Constitution.<\/em><\/strong> This member asked SAFSI which is headed by Ms West, to penalise another\u00a0 member in order that such action will not be emulated by other members.<\/em> If this issue does not involve SAFSI, then I challenge Ms West to provide an example of an issue that is not personal.<\/p>\n Point 3.<\/strong> Ms West wrote:<\/strong> “We would love Ms Morden at our meetings, but regrettably, she is not a member of SAFSI.”<\/em> <\/em>Again, Ms West is confused and ill-advised. As a community-based organisation, SAFSI is expected to communicate with other groups and individuals outside the organisation. This is a basic requirement or a standard operating procedure. She allowed my presence in the general meeting on 8th<\/sup> May 2016. This meeting was facilitated by myself. Ms West and the officers present in this meeting, promised to resume this unfinished meeting, which she is refusing to fulfil.<\/p>\n \u2014 Dr Aida Morden, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is my rejoinder to Ms Prima West’s response to my article \u201cSAFSI PRESIDENT PRIMA WEST\u00a0 REFUSES TO PERFORM HER ROLE,” [which was] published in the July issue of your much acclaimed publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}