CONCERNED STAFF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATON, WINNEBA WANT COUNCIL CHAIRMAN REMOVED.
A group calling itself Concerned Staff of the University of Educaton, Winneba is calling on President Akufo Addo to as a matter of urgency sack the Council Chairman of the school, Nana Ofori Ansah I.
The group says its call is as a result of the bad leadership of the Council Chairman.
In a statement copied to Hot News, the Concerned Staff of the University of Educaton, Winneba claims, since Nana Ofori Ansah I took over as Council Chairman, the University has not known peace because he is always creating confusion by disregarding the normal practices of the school.
It added that “The UEW Governing Council Chairman, Nana Ofori Ansah I, has demonstrated gross leadership weakness since he was sworn into office in August 2021. On I st March, 2022, barely seven (7) months after having been sworn in, the local branches of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) and the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA), issued a joint Press Statement calling on the President of the Republic and the appointing authority to withdraw his appointment as Council Chairman of UEW. This call was necessitated by what the Unions referred to as his ‘bulldozer’ approach in Council proceedings”.
They also say he is autocratic leader who takes decisions without taking into consideration the laid down procedures of the university.
They want him removed from his position to save the university from further confusion and chaos.
The statement which was signed by Prof George Kankam, one of the leaders of the Concerned Staff of the UEW said since Nana Ofori Ansah I took office as Council Chairman of UEW in 2021, his administration has nurtured uneasiness and further nursed and grew adequate plans to destabilize the peace of UEW. It claims at his maiden meeting with some faculty members, the Council Chairman is alleged to have openly declared that a section of the staff of UEW have in the past, enjoyed certain privileges and that it was high time for others to enjoy same.
The angry staff are questioning if this is how a public university is run.
On the basis of this and other issues that they say they cannot be put in the public domain, they are appealing to His Excellency, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to as a matter of urgency, withdraw the appointment of Nana Ofori Ansah I as Council Chairman of the University of Education, Winneba.
They say the University has known no peace since his appointment.
