Gov’t to reverse names of public universities changed under Akufo-Addo - Education minister

Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has disclosed that the nationalist universities that were renamed during the Akufo-Addo medication volition person their names changed to what they were antecedently known as.

Mr. Iddrisu, who was speaking during the inauguration of the governing assembly of the CK Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences (CKT-UTAS), said his bureau is successful consultations with cardinal stakeholders connected the move.

He said the volition was not to demean the contributions of the personalities aft whom President Akufo-Addo named the institutions, but to bespeak connected the integrity of the universities.

“The Government has taken a determination to reappraisal the names of immoderate of the universities and therefore, I volition beryllium presenting a measure to Parliament aft a committee that I volition beryllium putting successful spot reviews it.”

He continued: “It is not to diminish the publication of immoderate individual, peculiarly names that were conferred connected those institutions, but to reaffirm the foundational ethos and humanities identities of our tertiary institutions. The determination is not taken lightly. We’ve had extended consultations with the world assemblage and stakeholders, accepted leaders, alumni associations, students, and civilian society.”

The assemblage utilized to beryllium the Navrongo field of the University of Development Studies earlier it was renamed successful 2019 and elevated to assemblage status.

Clement Kubindiwor (CK) Tedam was a Ghanaian person helped recovered the absorption New Patriotic Party (NPP). He served connected Council of State during the Kufuor administration.