K-Poly got a new Governing Council - in 2003 - what are the 2005
social & economic outcomes, in this second year of the new Council and sixth year of
the new Asante Hene?
The same old hindrances (see
Dr. Kofi Ellison's report below) and an abominable 'education fund' that
characteristically for implementations of the subversive techniques of
neo-colonial oligopolies and the World Bank, is an aggravating layer of
discriminatory patronage as a fig leaf over absence of equality of opportunity, a significant contribution towards perpetuation of large-scale
waste of individual and collective human talent, and a subversion of effective
bootstrap remedial measures - that's how it's done, 'aid' and oligopoly
'influence' acting as a coordinated subversive weapon to create and/or prop up
dysfunctional social and economic forces in order to subvert appropriate education and
indigenous bootstrap developments, by various sociopathic means including
cultivation of acquired
'aid'
(and charity) dependence syndrome (AADS) and ipso facto promotion/perpetuation
of associated vicious self-perpetuating spirals of
underdevelopment...
News report
11-08-2003 : Mr Kwadwo Baah Wiredu, Minister of Education, Youth and
Sports, has appealed to Polytechnic Governing Councils to be proactive in the
discharge of their duties.
This, it was alleged with a straight face, by the Minister, will ensure that Polytechnics remained focused on providing technical
expertise required for the industrial development of the country.
Mr Baah Wiredu, who was inaugurating the reconstituted Governing Council of the
Kumasi Polytechnic at the weekend, expressed regret that Polytechnics were
loosing their focus.
The new Council is under the chairmanship of Mr Daniel Mireku Owiredu, ex Managing
Director of Ashanti Goldfields Limited, Obuasi, and now boss of AngloGold plc. He said the Polytechnics needed
to take a closer look at the courses they offered in order to impart technical
knowledge to students to provide middle-level technical know-how for the
country. He said the government was working hard to find solutions to some of
the problems facing the Polytechnics and urged the Councils to initiate measures
to solve some of them.
Mr Owiredu said the Council would forge good working relationships with all
'stakeholders' to achieve the objectives of the Polytechnic. He said the Council
would get industries to accept students for attachment during vacation.
Dr Lord Asamoah, Principal of the Polytechnic, commended the former Board for
their initiatives that had brought about massive infrastructure development on
the campus.
The Kumasi Polytechnic has decided to offer 10 per cent of
admissions in each of its academic departments to applicants from less endowed
rural secondary schools.
The offer, which begins in the 2003/2004 academic year; and follows the path
'blazed' by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), is to
enable students from deprived rural secondary schools who are not able to
compete with their urban counterparts for admission, to gain access to
polytechnic education.
Dr Lord Asamoah, Principal of the Kumasi Polytechnic, who announced this in
Kumasi, said 39 rural secondary schools had been selected as beneficiaries of
the programme.
Dr Asamoah, who was speaking at the second congregation of the Polytechnic at
the weekend, said the offer was part of the Polytechnic's social and statutory
responsibility of providing service to the communities.
He said the Polytechnic was also offering 10 scholarships each year for five
years in support of the Otumfuo Education Fund.
The value of the scholarships is estimated at 250 million cedis (£14.5k or
£1.45k per annum). Five
scholarships per year have also been awarded to students from Adako-Jachie in
the Ejisu-Juaben District to show appreciation to the chiefs and people in the
town for releasing more than 12 hectares to the Polytechnic free of charge to be
developed into a second campus. Dr Asamoah said the Polytechnic has also donated
a cheque for 10 million cedis to the town to buy books for their school library.
He commended the Asante Hene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu 11, a white collar mining
equipment contracter, for his "laudable" 'exploits' at
promoting quality education in the country and said the Polytechnic would also
do its part to provide quality education.
Extract from allafrica.com 20-12-2004: The bottom line is that
CORRUPTION, partly defined as giving and accepting bribes to influence a
decision or gain favour, permeates the entire fabric of 'Ghanaian' society. The
truth of the matter, is that people give bribes to under-declare their goods at
the ports... to gain admission to schools for their children and wards... to get
flight seats on planes...
so that the release of their cheques for contracts they have done are
expedited... to gain contracts... to
obtain sexual favours.... to influence the distribution of development projects...
the list is endless.
“I am here to bring you fraternal greetings from seven million children,
women, and men who refuse henceforth to die from ignorance, hunger, and thirst,”
he told the assembled delegates of 159 'United Nations', shortly before his
murder.
“I make no claim to set forth doctrines here. I am neither messiah nor
prophet. I possess no truths. My goal is…to speak on behalf of my people…to
speak for the great, disinherited people of the earth so disparagingly named the
Third World. I wish to explain the reasons for our anger, even though I may not
succeed in making you understand them.”
About women, this guy's response was - women hold up the other end of the sky.
