The Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, John Dramani Mahama has blasted President Akufo Addo for an attempt to relocate the satellite campus of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD) from Afram Plains to Akyem Abuakwa.
According to John Mahama, Akufo Addo has never built a University but going round relocating and renaming existing Universities.
Sod cutting for the construction of the University was done by John Dramani Mahama in December 2016. The first phase of the project was completed and Commissioned by President Akufo Addo on August 6, 2020, for enrollment of the first batch of students to begin in the 2020/2021 academic year.
The second campus of the University was to be located in Afram Plains. However, the branch campus has been relocated to Bunso in Akyem Abuakwa Municipality.
Speaking at a mini-rally in Somanya as part of his campaign tour in the Eastern Region, Mr. Mahama described the decision as unfair to the people of Afram Plains.
“Whenever NDC is in power, we make sure the people of Krobo get their share of development.so when the late President Atta Mills was governing this country which I was his vice, he planned to build a University in every region without a public University. At that time it Brong Ahafo didn’t have, so we built the University of Development and Natural Resources. Volta Region was also without University so we built the University of Health and Allied Sciences. Eastern region too didn’t have a University so we built the University of Environment and Sustainable Development. So before I left government, I secured funding for the project and came to cut sod which by the grace of God the University has been completed.”
He added “One thing which has gone wrong is that the University was supposed to have a second campus, and that second campus was supposed to be in Afram Plains but I have heard that the President has relocated the campus from Afram Plains to his hometown. But that is unfair! Because this President doesn’t know how to build a university but able to relocate campus to his hometown. Again, he is going around renaming existing Universities. You don’t know how to build institutions but you know how to rename them. You must also build some of these institutions”. Mahama said.
He assured that future NDC government will establish Universities in all the six new regions created to make tertiary education accessible to the people.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com /Obed Ansah
