The National Executive Committee of the University Teachers Association(UTAG) has asked the UTAG-UG to retract and apologise for its unwarranted impeachment threats against the National President.
This comes after the Emergency NEC meeting held on 14th June 2020.
Members at the said meeting held that “UTAG-UG erred in issuing the two (2) letters, as they breached both the Branch and National Constitutions. They should have resorted to laid down procedures to seek redress for their grievances, if any.”
Meanwhile NEC reiterated that it’s already aligned with the recommendations proffered by UTAG-UG on the Public Universities Bill (PUB).
“UTAG-UG position on the PUB, i.e. to offer “some recommendations informed by experience and best practices globally”, is in consonance with the position of NEC that the PUB should not pass in its present form, except subject to the proposed revisions of UTAG. It is important to reiterate that our position is born from the fact that the Bill raises serious constitutional matters, which UTAG will not hesitate to institute legal proceedings to challenge them before the Supreme Court.
It added:”Whereas individual UTAG branches have the right to engage the media on the PUB, and any other issue of public interest, all branches are to note that decisions of NEC are binding on all branches. NEC, therefore, encourages all UTAG branches/members to follow due process when addressing issues.
d. UTAG has a united front and NEC is solidly behind the National Officers to steer the affairs of UTAG.”
Background
The University of Ghana branch of UTAG (UG-UTAG) has initiated impeachment proceedings against the National President for consistently mis-representing and sidelining its position on the Public Universities Bill 2020 in his public engagements.
The resolution was passed at an emergency meeting held on Thursday, June,11, 2020.
A statement issued by UG-UTAG and jointly signed by Dr. Samuel Kojo Kwofie, Vice-President, UG-UTAG and Dr. Bethel Kwansa-Bentum, Secretary, said the National President is not serving the interest of members in the Public Universities Bill matter.
“UG-UTAG has observed that the demeanor and public utterances of the National President suggest that he is not committed to carrying out the mandate of the public universities which is advocating for the withdrawal or rejection of the PUB by the Executive or Parliament respectively.
“Per Article XXIV Clause 1 and Article XXV Clause 1 of the UTAG National Constitution, we have initiated impeachment proceedings against the National President.”
