A PUBLIC DECLARATION
Dated, Oking the 30th May 2023
Even after having perpetrated the heinous crime of vandalising the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) Oking which is also a Naga Heritage site, some few individuals are busy with smear campaigns through ‘half lies and half truth’ without any remorse whatsoever. It is with deep sense of sadness, as compelled by the circumstances, NSF is constrained to place on record the resolution adopted at Emergency NSF Seniors’ Consultative Meeting held at Angami Public Organisation (APO), Conference Hall, Kohima on 30th May 2023.
The Naga Students’ Federation through the informed advise of our seniors’ whom we consider as our light, our guide and our pride resolved to continue not to recognize the un-mandated group of individuals who claims themselves to be the Naga Club and has been claiming sole ownership of Naga Club building which the NSF has been zealously safeguarding as its custodian. The present Naga Club, as we know, was formed recently by some few individuals with vested interest by cherry picking some few descendents of the original Naga Club members.
The Meeting resolved to let the Naga people decide as to whether the Naga issue, the Naga political history and the resulting rights of the Naga people can be owned and inherited by some individuals. Naga Club belongs to all the Naga people. No individual or group can claim ownership of the same. The NSF in the best interest of all the Naga people cannot allow some few individuals to usurp the legacy of unity and the Naga nationhood. More so, Naga Club must not be exclusive but inclusive of all Nagas without borders.
The meeting also resolved to place in the public domain and let the Naga people to decide as to whether there is a need to revive the Naga Club and also whether the club is relevant in the present context. The Naga people should collectively decide on the fate of the Naga Club and not be misled by narratives which are barely even the half truth. If need be, every Frontal Organization of the Naga tribes must come together under one roof and decide on the fate of the Naga Club. NSF will extend our fullest co-operation and support towards achieving that end.
It was also resolved that NSF will be agreeable if the Naga Club is properly restructured with the collective mandate of the Naga people. Its ideology and principles should be grounded in the contents of the Memorandum submitted by the then Naga Club to the Simon Commission in 1929.
(KEGWAYHUN TEP)
President
(SIIPUNI NG PHILO)
General Secretary