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Embau Moheni
Embau Moheni
NJAC is proud to introduce Brother Embau Moheni. Brother Moheni is a Deputy Political Leader of NJAC. He is also the Servant Political Head of Tobago NJAC and the Servant Chairman of the Tobago Cultural Committee.
Brother Embau’s involvement goes back to the mass movement of 1970 and NJAC’s call for a New and Just Society. His participation in the people’s struggle brought him into confrontation with the repressive arm of the state when he still quite young.
At the age of eighteen he was arrested along with his brother, Thuku, and charged with creating “disaffection and dissatisfaction among her majesty’s subjects” for exposing the injustices in the society. Such was his commitment that he chose to remain in prison rather than accept bail from his father on his father’s condition that he should leave NJAC. He preferred to remain in prison until he received bail one week later with no strings attached.
He had become so committed to the task of building a New Society that even when he won a scholarship to study abroad, he turned it down in order to remain and make his contribution to the people’s movement for change.
Brother as also distinguished himself as an excellent Mathematics teacher. Since 1993 he has been Principal of Elizabeth’s College. This institution was established in Roxborough by his parents Aloysius and Edna Morean in 1953 in response to the pleas of parents in this and surrounding areas for the opportunity of secondary education for their children.
As principal, brother Embau has emphasized the holistic development of his students as well as their appreciation of their role in the development of their society. It is instructive that Elizabeth’s College is the first school in Tobago to introduce Theatre Arts to the curriculum.
As a result of the institution’s commitment to the development of Tobago’s student, regardless of ethnicity, class, political or religious persuasion, it earned the title of ‘Tobago’s Heritage School’. At present the institution is in the process of establishment of a number of faculties (including Agriculture, Business, Construction, Engineering, Foundation Education, Mathematics and Computer Science to name a few), in order to provide an educational service that is more relevant to the needs of Tobago and our nation.
As Servant/Head of the Tobago Cultural Committee he has been involved in the organising of annual Emancipation rallies and lectures since 1985, involving lecturers of national and international stature from various parts of the globe. He has also been involved in the production of the Tobago Young Kings Calypso Monarch competition and the various Tobago juniors calypso juniors competitions since 1990.
Brother Embau has represented the organisation in different capacities. He was the people’s candidate for Tobago West as well as the people’s candidate for Scarborough in the 1984 Tobago House of Assembly elections. In 1983 he was part of a delegation that represented one of the NJAC institutions, the Caribbean Historical Society, at the tenth anniversary of CARICOM in Barbados, where he served as one of the advisors to the Heads of Government conference.
Brother Moheni has remained steadfast in his commitment and sacrifices for the building of a New and Just society for the past thirty-six years, in promoting the enhancement of the educational, cultural, social, economic and political life of the people.