The University of Education, Winneba branch of University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has called on the public to disregard the criticism of UTAG’s call for the resignation of the schools’ Vice-Chancellor, Rev. Fr. Prof. Anthony Afful-Broni by some of its members.
In a statement, the UEW UTAG described the lecturers who made the call as “impersonators and fraudsters.”
[contextly_sidebar id=”Ui0ErQ7Hdn4tXEAzt1XAcHvDgPsmdYhg”]”The current action by the so-called concerned UTAG UEW goes to emphatically prove the fact that the current UEW management is bent on sustaining the division it epitomizes and has created in UEW,” the statement added.
The aggrieved UTAG members on Thursday complained that the national UTAG was interfering in the school’s affairs.
They also demanded the resignation of UTAG President, Dr. Eric Opoku Mensah.
It added that the association had incited the student protests that led to the school being shut down indefinitely.
UTAG has also called for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) over conflict of interest claims made against the university’s Governing Council Chair, Prof. E. N. Abekah.
But the UEW UTAG again defended the association’s actions refuting suggestions that UTAG incited students to riots.
UTAG stressed that the members warning the national UTAG executives did not speak for the majority of UTAG members in the school.
It affirmed its “full support” for UTAG’s calls for the resignations and added that “we by this disclaimer are calling all and sundry concerned to disregard the self-appointed and self-constituted group’s statement with the contempt it deserves.”
“If allowed to continued, those of our membership aligned to and benefiting unduly from the current administration’s abuse of power to subdue and cower their compatriots will sink this hitherto promising higher place of learning in a sea of disrepute and shame that would take some doing to redeem and restore.”
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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa | citinewsroom.com | Ghana
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