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| U. Stonewell Tetteh (Secretary C-Poly POTAG) |
The Cape Coast branch of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) has dissociated itself from statements made to the media by some concerned lecturers in the Cape Coast Polytechnic about the appointment of a new Rector for the School.
The polytechnic has not had a Rector for the past year after Professor Kwame Nkum resigned his position.
Two groups, the Concerned Staff and the Concerned Patriots have called on government to revoke the appointment of Dr. Lawrence Atepor as they claim he is not competent enough to run the affairs of the school.
In light of this, POTAG has said it does not recognize any group calling itself ‘Concerned staff’ and appealed for the right procedure of appointment of a Rector to take place.
The Local Secretary of POTAG, Stonewell Tetteh told Central Press it is unfortunate for the two concerned staff to indicate that Dr. Lawrence Atepor is from the Volta region so he should not be given the appointment.
"The concerned staff are made of two teachers of the institution namely Messrs Emmanuel Offei Appiah and Tsatsu McCarthy, so it is not true that it is the whole community that is actually agitating.
"The Polytechnic Community is not on fire as it has been perceived; everything is running normally.
“The former rector, Professor Robert Kwame Nkum, was not chased out of the Polytechnic as the two concerned parties were purporting.
"He resigned his post on his own volition. POTAG respects the ongoing process set up by the Polytechnic Council, through the search committee to get a qualified rector for the Polytechnic.
“As we speak today, nobody has been appointed yet but we believe that the committee that has been set up is doing its work and is actually in the process of getting us a new rector.
"POTAG wishes to advice our two colleagues to channel any grievance they have through the appropriate channel to get their issues addressed”.
The polytechnic has not had a Rector for the past year after Professor Kwame Nkum resigned his position.
Two groups, the Concerned Staff and the Concerned Patriots have called on government to revoke the appointment of Dr. Lawrence Atepor as they claim he is not competent enough to run the affairs of the school.
In light of this, POTAG has said it does not recognize any group calling itself ‘Concerned staff’ and appealed for the right procedure of appointment of a Rector to take place.
The Local Secretary of POTAG, Stonewell Tetteh told Central Press it is unfortunate for the two concerned staff to indicate that Dr. Lawrence Atepor is from the Volta region so he should not be given the appointment.
"The concerned staff are made of two teachers of the institution namely Messrs Emmanuel Offei Appiah and Tsatsu McCarthy, so it is not true that it is the whole community that is actually agitating.
"The Polytechnic Community is not on fire as it has been perceived; everything is running normally.
“The former rector, Professor Robert Kwame Nkum, was not chased out of the Polytechnic as the two concerned parties were purporting.
"He resigned his post on his own volition. POTAG respects the ongoing process set up by the Polytechnic Council, through the search committee to get a qualified rector for the Polytechnic.
“As we speak today, nobody has been appointed yet but we believe that the committee that has been set up is doing its work and is actually in the process of getting us a new rector.
"POTAG wishes to advice our two colleagues to channel any grievance they have through the appropriate channel to get their issues addressed”.
In a related development, the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the Cape Coast Polytechnic has called on the President to revoke the appointment of its Registrar, Nimaku Danquah. The SRC claims Nimaku Danquah’s alleged leaking of the decision of the search committee on the appointment of a new Rector to some teaching staff was unprofessional and deserved sanction.
According to the SRC, the Registrar disclosed confidential information to the staff who used it at a press conference to call on the President to dissolve the Polytechnic council and the search committee.
The SRC President of Cape Coast Polytechnic, Emmanuel Asamoah Bohin noted that for the past four years the school had not seen development in-terms of infrastructure and academic affairs since Nimaku Danquah took the leadership role of Registrar.
He indicated that “the President has got nothing to do with this issue, the Council has constituted a search committee in line with the rule of law, and they should respect the rules and let the structures work.
"NDC has got nothing to do with this. Insults being rained on the council chairman, we are not in for that. We need a Rector now”.
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SRC President, Emmanuel Asamoah Bohin |
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