Some members of the local chapter of the University Teachers of Ghana (UTAG) at the University of Education, Winneba, have condemned the national UTAG President, Dr. Eric Opoku Mensah over the association’s stance on the UEW saga.
According to them, the national UTAG leadership should be blamed for the conspiracy that created needless unrest on campus accusing it of inciting the students’ protests and the destruction of properties.
Addressing a news conference held Thursday at the university, spokesperson of the lecturers, at UEW campus, Eric Sakyi Nketsiah, called on the national Executives to stop meddling in the affairs of the University since it has failed to be a mediator.
Mr. Eric Sakyi Nketsiah, also called on the UTAG President, Dr Eric Opoku Mensah, to resign with immediate effect because he has failed the association.
“It is unethical, unprecedented and morally out of order for a UTAG National President who is supposed to seek the welfare of his members to endanger the lives of members of a group he leads by inciting students to commit acts of violence leading to the destruction of both individual and University property,” a statement issued after the press conference stated.
“…That we reject and dismiss UTAG-National posturing of arrogating unto itself the power to represent us, purporting to speak for us and on our behalf, and attempting to coerce us into accepting what they falsely seek to put into the public domain on issues affecting our University,” the statement said further.
