New UEW SRC members take office

Winneba (C/R), May 25, GNA - The out-going SRC President of the University of Education, Winneba, (UEW), Mrs. Pearl Akua Agyemang on Saturday appealed to students to stop intimidating and marginalising women, since this could have ripple effect on potential female leaders on campus and other places.

She also urged women to support and encourage their female counterparts wishing to aspire to any position either political or social.

Mrs. Agyemang, who was the first woman SRC President said these at a handing over ceremony of the SRC to new officers at Winneba. She said women empowerment is one of the millennium development goal, which all women must come together to fight for. She therefore urged women to stop undermining themselves and support each to achieve these goals. Mrs. Agyemang said during his one-year tenure of office, they undertook thirteen projects, including the provision of 50 cordless microphones for lectures and 50 garden chairs for North and South campuses.

They also paid for surgical bills of a hole-in-heart student of the University to undergo operation any made payment of two buses for Kumasi and Mampong SRCs. Mrs. Agyemang urged women to contest as Parliamentary candidates or other position in the coming general elections and also called for unity among them to enable them achieve a lot. The Dean of Students Affairs, Dr. Cosmas K. Mereku, said it is the responsibility of the Office of Students Affairs (ODSA) to ensure that students elected a good leadership team that will complement the efforts of the university administration, Council and Management. He said politics was simply "activities to social and economic problems and different aspirations met by the process of discussion and compromise rather then by the application of decree or force". The new SRC President, Nana Kwaku Ofori Addai promised to work hand-in-hand with everybody and appealed to the junior members to feel at home to make any inputs that would facilitate their programmes. Mr. Erasmos Gyinae, a Cape coast Supervising High Court judge swore the new members into office.