The flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has vowed to reverse the names President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo gave some public universities in the country if he is re-elected as president in the 2024 polls.
Some public universities were renamed by the President when he assumed office.
For instance, the University for Development Studies (UDS), Wa campus was named after SD Dombo [Simon Diedong Dombo], a politician from the United Party tradition.
The university is now Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) in the Upper West Region and the C.K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences (CKT-UTAS) in the Upper East Region.
President Akufo-Addo in 2018 also renamed the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) to the George Grant University of Mines and Technology.
Addressing party supporters, chiefs, and students at Zuarungu in the Upper East Region, the NDC flagbearer lashed out at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for renaming universities constructed by the NDC government after their heroes.
He wondered why the NPP government, which has not built any universities in the country, kept renaming the existing ones.
Mr. Mahama emphasized the need to rename libraries, hostels, and administration blocks after people, insisting that the names of public universities should reflect their core mandate.
“We are known as nation builders because of the number of schools we have built. Every public university was initiated and built by us. All the NPP knows how to do is name universities that people have built. After NDC builds a university, then they will give it the name of one of their heroes or people. We are going to rename the universities. Ghana has many heroes, and not only the heroes of the NPP tradition.
He emphasized, “We can name an administration block, hostel, and library after somebody. But the university must reflect its core mandate. And so we will restore the original names, and the names that they have given them will be given to significant infrastructure in the universities. And we will add other people and name the infrastructure in the universities after them. But if the university is the University for Development Studies, that is its core mandate. It will be called the University for Development Studies.”
Source: Citinewsroom.com
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NDC just keep on dreaming
Is this necessary?, Will this put food on our tables?, Massa, give us good policies and stop wasting our ears with this comments
I think we all need to agree that Ghana need to move forward and we don't need this kind of politics especially renaming of university. As a serious presidential candidate, how cam you campaign on this in a country you claim is in a mess. We need policies, especially from a former president, alternative budget, tax measures and initiatives that can stand the test of time... talk talk politics is pass.
@Be, you clearly lack the ability to understand and reason logically. Where did Ernest say policies are irrelevant or that longer name is the reason why they should be changed? He emphasized that all the universities producing great research outputs have simple names, yet heavily funded and with great facilities. In this age as you mentioned, your Akufo Addo only knows how to give complicated irrelevant names to the universities but with zero funding and zero facilities. The universities in Ghana have only huge empty buildings and huge irrelevant campuses, nothing important goes on apart from teaching. Is that what people with policies do? Empty barrels indeed.
@ Nana abakah-SA NDC/Mahama did not and can’t build those universities. They belong to Ghana and If Mahama is ever elected again he can do as he wish.
@Ernest Did you read over what you wrote? Lengthy but no substance. At this point in the life of Ghana we need policies not restoring or changing… Is a long name the reasonfor changing…because who can’t not pronounce what?
Desperation will kill this Mahama ooo! He is behaving as if he knows everything. Is he not the Mahama who brought dumsor and Airbug saga?
Mr President , The mere renaming will not make the universities any better. Yes you can choose to rename them but go beyond that and bring out policies that will make them better and comparable to any high standard university in the world . Mr former president go beyond just renaming and add something extra .
you are the reason nana addo and his family have taken ghana as personal property. is the renaming by nana addo a policy? why can nana addo remane university he did not build after UP-NPP people. where is bawumia policy so far, you did not hear all policies mahama mentioned.
@Delali, Babe, your attitude and mindset is typical of NPP, very haughty but empty barrels, just noisy rhetorics, give them the opportunity, they will mess up gravely and blame all their incompetence and corruption on things that are far fetched. Which serious nation have you seen having lengthy university names, because they are named after people? They only name buildings after people's and they're focused on their mandates. Here, the reverse is true, who can even pronounce the ridiculous university names Akufo Addo has given? And what facilities and funding has he given to those universities to make them functional rather than mere buildings and huge campuses? Any you extremely petty people think this is not essential? By the way, how does talking about this important issues mean he doesn't have or won't talk about his policies? What has been the current or will be future positive effect of your so called pathetic policies apart from FSHS? I don't know of any serious human being who will be waiting for the futile, unsympathetic, lectures of Bawumia. Where did the Central university lectures lead us? Now he has switched to UPSA, always switching emphasis and doing nothing impactful