The rate at which government of the day is re-christening or renaming national assets after some deserving citizens has raised eyebrows, especially among members of the opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC].
But it appears the incumbent is hell-bent on their ‘agenda’ and will not heed to any distraction whatsoever from any quarters. That is the assertion of the ruling party’s Deputy General Secretary, Nana Obiri Boahene.
There have been wide criticisms in the media over the renaming of some tertiary institutions in Ghana after prominent figures following the latest proposition by the governing council of the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR).
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the 4th Congregation of the University in Sunyani on Saturday, August 10, 2019 was quoted to have said “Following the decision taken by the University’s Council on August 3, 2018, the university will be named after one of the illustrious sons of the region, Professor K.A Busia after the decision had received Parliamentary approval “, he stated amidst applause.
This comes barely a month after a proposal for the renaming of the Navrongo campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS) after C. K. Tedam, the immediate past Chairman of the Council of Elders of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) who passed on recently.
According to Obiri Boahene, all the state-owned educational institutions in the country will be renamed after the country's founding fathers’; irrespective of public disquiet.
Speaking on NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’, the NPP stalwart expressed the view that anyone against the move can “continue to wallow in their ignorance and tribal hatred.”
He was emphatic that the plan to rename University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Sunyani in the Bono Region after the late Prime Minister of the Second Republic, Professor Kofi Abrefa Busia is laudable.
“He [Kofi Abrefa Busia] deserves more than that,” he told host Mac Jerry Osei Agyeman
Listen to interview…
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Don't worry make sure u name another university as dwarf parlour university, kwasiafor like u and Akuffo Addo, Look at your nose like timber beams cheap man without paying toilet fee
When you have such characters parading the corridors of power..what do you expect..I weep for mother Ghana
very soon i foresee Nana Addo putting name tag on neck of all children born withing his time reading 'Nana Addo babies' haaahhaahaa this Oluman like show!!!!!!!!!!
ALL THESE NAMES WILL BE CHANGED COME 2020. WE VOTED YOU TO BETTER OUR LIVES BUT TO DO LAZY WORK BY RENAMING WHAT YOU DID NOT CREAT. SAME ON ALL ENDORSING THIS AND HAVE SEEN NOTHING WRONG. IF J,M COULD PUT UP ALOT OF INFRUSTRUCTURE AND WE VOTED HIM OUT HOW MORE TO TALK ABOUT NANA ADDO WHO DIDI NOTHING
AKOFFO ADDO IS THE PROBLEM NOT NPP, KUFOUR WAS IN POWER BUT DID NOT DO ALL THE ***barred word*** AKOFFO ADDO IS DOING. THESE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AKOFFO ADDO IS BUSY RENAMING AFTER HIS RELATIVE, WERE THEY BUILD IN THEIR REIGN? WHY ARE THEY BUSY RENAMING THINGS HE AND HIS RELATIVES NEVER CONTRIBUTED IN THEIR CONSTRUCTION. VERY SOON AKKOFO ADDO WILL NAME ALL THE E-BLOCKS MAHAMA BUILD AFTER HIS WIFE, CHILDREN AND KYEBI PEOPLE. LOOK AT HOW RAWLINGS SOLELY PROVIDED SEED MONEY FOR UDS BUT RAWLINGS LOVE GHANA AND NOT INTERESTED TO NAME THINGS OR ACCEPT PUTTING HIS NAME ON UDS. TELL ME WHAT CONTRIBUTION DID DR BUSIA DID TOWARDS UNIVERSITY OF MINES AND NATURAL RESOURCES THAT AKKOFO ADDO SAW IT FIT TO NAME IT AFTER BUSSIA?
You are rather wallowing in ignorance and hatred.You are such a shallow minded person. Grow up in politics man. You talk too much and it's always ***barred word***.Do you think we voted for this ***barred word*** change and people of your caliber don't see anything wrong going on.
WHICH GHANAIANS ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? DO YOU THINK GHANAIANS WILL ENTRUST THE DESTINY OF THE COUNTRY TO NDC AGAIN? EVEN KOTOKA WHO OVERTHREW AN ELECTED GOVERNMENT HAS HIS NAME ON OUR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. BUSIA DID SOME GOOD THINGS FOR THIS COUNTRY DURING THE 2YEARS HE WAS A PRIME MINISTER OF THIS COUNTRY. THE JSS CONCEPT OF EDUCATION WAS HIS IDEA. THE UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE SYSTEM INPARTS OF ACCRA, ESPECIALLY THE RIDGE AREA IS ALSO THE BRAINCHILD OF BUSIA. SO WE THE PEOPLE OF BRONG AND AHAFO ARE GRATEFUL TO THE NPP FOR NAMING THE UNIVERSITY AFTER HIM. NDC OPPOSED THE NAMING OF SPORTS STADUIM AFTER OUR FOOTBALLERS, BUT WILL NOT OPPOSE THOSE ONES THAT BENEFITS THEM. WE LIVE TO SEE. NPP WILL WIN BY A WILD MARGIN IN 2020. NOBODY CAN STOP THE PARTY FROM WINNING AGAIN.
Go ahead and rename them. Ghanaians will change you come 2020 and reinstate the old name. your just exhibiting your crazin3ss in the name of democracy. no wonder the word democracy itself means de-more-crazin3ss you can exhibit or behave. so go ahead. F00ooolish man. very annoyin like his prez
Go ahead and rename them. Ghanaians will change you come 2020 and reinstate the old name. your just exhibiting your crazin3ss in the name of democracy. no wonder the word democracy itself means de-more-crazin3ss you can exhibit or behave. so go ahead. ***barred word*** man