National Service Boss Hooted At By NDC’s TEIN

Executive Director of the National Service Secretariat (NSS), Vincent Senam Kuagbenu, had a rude shock when members of the National Democratic Congress' Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN), on Saturday, November 27th, hooted at him and prevented him from addressing them, despite protestations from their leaders.

The tertiary students’ embarrassing act was because they claim Mr. Kuagbenu is arrogant and had treated some of their colleagues unfairly.

The function was the TEIN National Conference currently underway at the North Campus, Pavilion ‘B’ of the University of Education, Winneba. And eventhough the NSS Boss was scheduled to give a speech on “Rudiments of National Service”, the thousands of TEIN members present would have none of it as they continually shouted “away, away” at him.

Peacefmonline sources at the event grounds say calls by the TEIN leadership for restraint went unheeded. And even when the Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah stepped in to call for order, the students’ anger at Mr. Kuagbenu rather boiled.

And for nearly half an hour the NDC’s TEIN continually yelled at Mr. Kuagbenu who eventually left the podium and dejectedly walked out of the meeting grounds.

Some TEIN members who later spoke to PeaceFM on condition of strict anonymity stated that the NSS Boss had virtually turned himself into a demi-god at Secretariat. They claim that some of their members had been posted to villages in far off places and attempts to get Mr. Kuagbenu to re-post them to towns closer to the capital have fallen on deaf ears.

Present at the function were some NDC bigwigs including the Minister of Roads and Transport, Mike Hammah, Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Baba Jamal, Deputy Information Minister, James Agyenim Boateng and some executives of the NDC in the Central Region.