Wednesday, June 4, 2014

GOVERNMENT URGED TO ADDRESS POTAG ISSUE



We the leadership of the Cape Coast Polytechnic Student Representative Council in the Central region of Ghana have gathered through this procession to register our discontentment over the conscious rnarginalization and demeaning of Polytechnic education and the situation of government's inability to create and maintain the systems we need to run our education without pointless interruptions.
Ladies and Gentlemen, today we have thousands of polytechnic students who cannot become graduates because their lecturers are striking over pay and working conditions for closely three weeks and all we hear from stakeholders is that the said strike action was illegal due to some purported ambiguity of a sort contained in notice for declaring the industrial action. For us as students who have fulfilled our part of the deed by paying fees and making ourselves available for training, the least we expected was government's refusal to settle its indebtedness to our lecturers. We are not prepared to dabble in the legalities of the strike action. If you are a government and your employees embark on an illegal strike leaving students to suffer all losses, what are supposed to do? We are surprised that government was made aware from months ago on this strike and did nothing to prevent what it calls an illegal strike. Always government is only interested in protecting its name and not the citizens. Government has coiled back to relax after coming out to respond to the strike as illegal, leaving students to suffer the loss. Simple logic demands that an employer seeks the law to compel his employees to call of an illegal strike. Why is government not doing so if indeed the strike is illegal? To us we believe government has at its disposal all it needs to avert this loss on students.
OUR DEMANDS
That our teachers be made to return to the lectures halls with immediate effect.  How to get them is not part of our reasoning. It is about time the government took polytechnic education serious.

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