It’s about time the principal of Mampong Nursing & Midwifery Training College was SACKED!

The many number of times I listen to the audio recording of the meeting held on the campus on Monday, 20 June 2022, regarding the recall of the said “affected” students, the more I get frustrated that the students are still denied their right despite the intervention by the Minister of Health, Hon Kwaku Agyemang Manu.

In the audio, one could clearly attest to the fact the principal had not made any efforts to implement whatever directive the Health Minister had given to her. She asked the attendee students what they knew about the directive and ended up telling them that the Minister had asked her to recall them to repeat their class but not to be promoted as they have been seeking. Again, she had not made any attempt to notify the affected students about the directive so given.

She is simply a wicked person harbouring malicious intentions against not only the affected students but the entire school population. Subsequently, the writer calling for her removal from the school.

Before proceeding any further, let me pause to briefly inform the general Ghanaian public of how supportive a said husband of the principal is to his wife, Mrs. Gifty Helena Dwamena Amoah. This man living in the United States of America (USA) who should have known better to understand how incompetent, ignorant and a total misfit his wife is, is rather applauding her for her action taken to dismiss and or, demote some one hundred and sixty-eighty students.

To the husband, does he know how his wife arrived at her unprofessional, incompetent and callous decision to dismiss/demote the students? Does he understand how students are rated on Grade Point Average (GPA) to determine whether they qualify for promotion or not?

To the layperson, GPA is a number that indicates how well or how high you scored in your courses on average. From my investigations and evidence available to me, all or most, of the “affected” students, did obtain GPA that qualifies them for promotion.

Why were their GPA constantly changing on their student portal? This is just by the way.

The husband, Mr. Amoah, in his telephone conversation with a journalist in Ghana, said, “what does that Rockson Adofo living in London know, an armchair journalist as he is?” Mr. Amoah asserts to be a journalist himself when he was in Ghana.

Let me define an armchair journalism for people to understand how the alleged husband of the principal, who although currently sojourns in the USA, does not know how Covid-19 impacted schools to culminate in students being promoted without sitting for final or end of year examinations.

“Armchair journalism is a term used to describe reporting that is done by a reporter from his/her office without going out into the field to interview the sources”

If my reporting from London does reveal the veracity of stories prevailing on the ground, and the contents are correct, does it matter how I obtain my information? Is it not better to deal with the content rather than where and how it is obtained?

Anyway, the husband may be as bad as the wife since the birds of the same feathers flock together. And, as it is like father like son, so it is like husband like wife.

Back to my main story, the principal is running the college as though she is irrational and lacks any knowledge in school administration. My nearly hour-long conversation with one of the tutors in the school revealed many malpractices in perpetration by the principal. The eye-catching one among them, serious of course, is how she forces the tutors to teach subjects other than those they have studied and qualified in.

To make it vivid to those of us without medical knowledge hence may not understand when I mention the subjects learnt at Nursing and Midwifery Training Colleges, I will use the subjects known to be taught in normal schools to demonstrate how badly the principal is running the college.

A tutor gone to the university to study, graduate and qualify in say, geography, is forced by the principal to teach say, chemistry, this semester and then mathematics the next semester. When the tutors raise any objection, she tells them that as long as they are employed in the school as tutor, they should be able to teach any subject assigned to them by her. What a complete madness!

The tutor continued to tell me that the most annoying part is if she asked you to teach say physics, whereas your specialization is history, and you have taken about two weeks to do a research to prepare notes on physics, a day to starting your physics lessons with the students, she phones to ask you to rather start teaching biology.

Therefore, the tutors are always not up to the task; becoming a blind man leading another blind man. Both persons will end up falling into a pit.

The tutor as well as the students will not benefit from the subject or lesson hence impacting their results.

Again, she has ensured all the long-serving and experienced tutors were transferred from the college. She makes sure any tutor that raises objection to her style of administrating the college is removed from the school.

There are many things the tutor confided in me that do not augur well for both the tutors and the students.

I will end here by appealing to the Health Minister to investigate this allegation and those he may already be aware of. She is not for the good of the tutors, students and the Mampong community.

By all that I have been told about her from reliable sources, an armchair journalist as I am, I call for her removal from the college. She is unfit to be the principal of the school if anyone cares about the welfare of the students, tutors and the Mampong community.

Rockson Adofo

Sunday, July 17, 2022