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Nine members of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana, POTAG, in the Western region are living in fear after they received death threats from anonymous persons.
The lecturers suspect the threats are in connection with a protest against leave allowances granted the Rector of the Takoradi Polytechnic, Rev Prof Daniel Nyarko.
Prof Nyarko has begun a four year accumulated leave and is supposed to be paid an amount of GH¢100,000, Joy News' Western Region correspondent Francis Whajah reported.
But some members of the Polytechnic Council have challenged the amount.
Citing section 31 of the Labour Law, the critics argued that accumulated leave cannot be paid for. It is unlawful, they maintained for the school to dole out a whopping amount of GH¢100,000 to Rev Nyarko.
At best they are ready to meet the Rector half way, something supporters of the Rector have also kicked against. They want the Rector to be paid fully what he is entitled to.
Critics of the payment, say they have received countless death threats and have reported the threats to the police.
The death threats follow the gruesome murder of one of the members of the Association a few weeks ago.
POTAG president James Drugrah said the reported death threats are regrettable.
He said he would have thought that at a time they are thinking about converting the polytechnics into technical universities, everybody would work together for the good of the polytechnics.
He does not understand why people will begin sending death threats to others and charged the police to look into the allegations.
Source: Myjoyonline.com
The Coalition of Tertiary Students, Ghana, say they will resist any attempt by government to make tertiary students resident on campus bear the cost of utilities.
According to them, they will not sit and watch government pass on its social compact expectations on its students.
Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa early this month announced at a meeting of Campus Connect in Kumasi that, as part of measures to reduce the pressure on government coffers, tertiary students resident on campus would be charged for using utility services.
However, at a press conference organised Tuesday, the president of the Coalition of Tertiary Students, Ghana, Mr Duke Aaron Sasu said, “We students and student leaders oppose vehemently this ill thought through Government policy. We would resist any attempt by government to force the hands of students to bear the arrears of utility bills owed by the universities as a consequence of the failure of government of Ghana to exercise its responsibilities.”
They have therefore warned of mass nationwide student rallies to press home their demand.
The coalition has also asked all tertiary students across the country to embark on a ‘red alert crusade’ to register their displeasure, adding, “Every student of Ghana must identify with something red to register our displeasure until the Government calls off this sickening policy.”
The coalition is made up of the Wa and Nyankpala campuses of the University of Development Studies (UDS), the University of Mines and Technology, (UMaT), Kumasi and Takoradi Polytechnics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Kumasi Campus.
Source: Written by Graphic.com.gh
