Our Tertiary Students Deserve The Best And Not Campus Connects

The recent speculations on the media about tertiary students paying utility bills and other stuffs have sparked a big debate in the mind-set of students, parents and intellectuals. Why students paying utility bills whilst Ghana has discovered oil and gas and drilling is on-going. It is pathetic and share wickedness.

The NDC government is playing with the future of this country.The government is not serious with our education. A whole general Secretary of NDC Johnson Asiedu Ntesiah have the gut to say that " No sense in paying teacher trainee allowances – Mosquito | General News 2015-04-25 - http://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=355909 " but believe there is a sense in tertiary students paying utility bills.

Mr. Godwin Gbobovi NDC communicator in Ashanti region also have the gut to call teachers trainees "GOOD-FOR-NOTHING-STUDENTS" This is a great insult to the colleges of education and their teaching and non-teaching staffs. How can lectures/tutors train people to come out and impart knowledge on the less knowledgeable ones then we call these trainees such a name. Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) and PRINCOF must come out to condemn such irresponsible comments .

We have teachers who have completed universities and distance education programmes but are not gainfully employed in our schools and colleges. Is only in Ghana that we have established a professional Graduate Unemployment Union. Indeed NDC Government is playing with our education and the future generation.

How can a teacher worked for 24 months and recieve 3 months salary? and government claimed this is BETTER GHANA AGENDA.

MARCO RUB once said "We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system.

And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again". This is what NDC government must do so that they can pay teachers, nurses, other workers and tertiary institutions utility bills.

Just look at this under President Kuffour government:

NPP paid training teachers and nurses colleges allowances. Introduced the distance education programme when Ghana was not drilling oil and receiving anything from gas?

NPP paid teachers who taught for 24 months salaries fully?

NPP extended GETfund projects to private universities? NPP upgraded the certificate of teachers trainees to Diploma and did not allowed tertiary students to pay utility bills.

Why have all these interventions vanished in our country under NDC John Mahama Government with oil and gas funds.

Hon. Kwesi Bonzoh who was the 2012 Parliamentary candidate for Ellembelle on NPP ticket once said " A nation that recognize students and their well-being has the greatest future but if a nation does not recognize students wellbeing then woes await the future generation" How can Ghanians sit down and allow woes to cover the future generation. Arise Ghana youths for your country.

The only thing NDC government can initiate upon all these challenges tertiary students are facing is CAMPUS CONNECT. Why do students have leaders? Why the existence of national student unions and other bodies?

If Mr Ablakwa has anything better for the tertiary students then He must heed to their cry concerning the scrapping of the allowances,high cost of examination fees, high cost of feeding fees,lack of infrastructure, inadequate teaching and learning materials, postings of trainees after completion , utility bills,persistent power outage,support to private universities and others.

The minister should meet the Energy Minister,the president of Ghana, PUSAG,TTAG,CETAG, PRINCOF, national students unions executives ,GES,POTAG,GHS and other bodies to address students and teachers problems rather than coming to meet the students during instructional hours. Mr Ablakwa as Education Minister for tertiary should know the best and not otherwise.

The so called campus connect which is a campaign ground for NDC must not work.Nana Addo once said "GHANA NEEDS LEADERS THAT THINK ABOUT THE NEXT GENERATION AND NOT the next elections" If Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa has a meeting then he must met President John Mahama and remind him of THE TEN (10) colleges of education promised by NDC and President Mahama in 2012 election. Mr minister and NDC government are you serious with the future of Ghanians education?

LONG LIVE GHANA
LONG LIVE GHANIANS STUDENTS
LONG LIVE HON. KWESI BONZOH
PETER ACKAH
..........Signed. ........
(A CONCERNED GHANIAN- 0547946200)