Akufo-Addo told to Focus on his job, not renaming schools
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‘Focus on your job not renaming schools’ – UG students to Akufo-Addo. Some scores of students at the University of Ghana have advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to focus on his job instead of renaming the institution after J.B. Danquah.
According to the students, there is a need for more infrastructural facilities at the University of Ghana that will expand their scope and help deal with any accommodation issues.
These inss they say, cab be named after J.B. Danquah to help solve the accommodation crisis the institution is grappling with.
In an interview recently, some of the students said: “As citizen, I would say this [remaining of UG] is the least of our worries. There are a lot of pertinent issues moving around our neck as a country like the economy that needs much oore attention from us [Akufo-Addo] outfit. I think the best thing for him is to put up a struct, maybe a university in their homeland in the Eastern region, and name it after J.B. Danquah. My message to the president is that the name ‘University of Ghana’ will remain today, tomorrow, and forever,” one student, Rashad, told a TV reporter.
“Personally, I don’t think that it [remain UG] is an ideal thing that we should be doing at this particular moment. The reason why I am saying that the name and the respect of this particular institution is in the name itself. The University of Ghana has been the university we’ve all known across the world because of the Ghana that is attached to it.
“So I think the moment we move Ghana from there and add an individual’s name to it irrespective of the contribution that the person has done to the university or even the country as a whole, I think is going to reduce that king of respect and the mileage that the University has” Collins, student at UG said.
Another female student raised her concern about the monetacost involved with regard to branding its equivalent if Akufo-Addo goes ahead to rename the UG after J.B. Danquah.
“What we need is jot renaming but facilities that will help the university. Even a lot of the lectures are complaining that their conditions of service are not good. So I don’t think naming the UG after a certain person who fought to get whatever the university has attained now is important.” This is from Blessed m, another student from UG.