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29.11.2012 Education

TEIN-KNUST defends free laptop project

TEIN-KNUST defends free laptop project
29.11.2012 LISTEN

President of the KNUST branch of the Tertiary Education Institutions Network, TEIN, has waded into the controversial free laptop discourse currently on the lips of many political enthusiasts in the country.

Abuga Benjamin says comments that suggest the NDC is distributing free laptops to its cronies are not true, adding that he can confirm the names of card-bearing members of the New Patriotic Party who are beneficiaries of the programme. He says there are equally many executives of TEIN who applied for the laptops but have not been given.

He told Ultimate Radio's Bernard Buachi that the laptops were given without recourse to political party affiliation, gender, tribe, religion or creed.

He also denies the role of TEIN or any other NDC students' group in the laptop distribution. The TEIN president threw a challenge to anyone who has evidence of TEIN playing any active role in the laptop distribution programme to come out and prove it. He says he wishes that NDC students groups were even made to play vital roles in ensuring the success of the programme since “the NPP has an attitude of trying to demonise every good initiative of the NDC”.

The NDC activist wants Ghanaians to stop throwing mud at the programme and patronize it for the positive impacts it is already making on the academic activities of beneficiaries.

-Bernard Buachi
Ultimate Radio, Kumasi.

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