Menu position does not work on views in modules

Menus don’t get highlighted , but when i click on them i can navigate to that page

pages are in a module called "message" as seen in the directory structure below

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Now my layout column is a menu as below, when I click on them, i can navigate there but the effect of position does not work…







case 'inbox' :

?>

 	<div class="span3 ">

		<div class="sidebar-nav">

			<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.CMenu', array(

				/*'type'=>'list',*/

				'encodeLabel'=>false,

				'items'=>array(

					array('label'=>'<i class="icon icon-search"></i> Inbox <span class="label label-important pull-right">HOT</span>', 'url'=>array('/message/inbox')),

					array('label'=>'<i class="icon icon-search"></i> Sent <span class="label label-important pull-right">HOT</span>', 'url'=>array('/message/sent')),

					array('label'=>'<i class="icon icon-search"></i> Reservation Requests <span class="label label-important pull-right">HOT</span>', 'url'=>''),

					// array('label'=>'','items'=>$this->menu),

					),

					));?>

				</div>

				

				</div><!--/span-->

				<div class="span9"> <!-- Begining of the body -->



See below 5978

Screen Shot 2014-10-11 at 7.01.39 PM.png

Generally it should show a position effect as below

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Application Layout is in the theme folder where there is the file column2.php and the theme folder is NOT within the module.

where I am going wrong? :(