US university to establish campus at Peki

Peki (V/R), Aug 15, GNA - The University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the United States is exploring the possibility of establishing a campus in the Peki Traditional Area.

Diega Kwadzo Dei XI, Paramount Chief of the Peki Traditional Area, said this at a durbar at Peki-Blengo to honour Dr Thelma B Thompson, President and Chief Executive of the University on Thursday.

He said the project was planned to perpetuate Peki's status as the cradle of formal education that started with the arrival of the Reverend Lorenz Wolf, a German Missionary in 1847.

Deiga Kwadzo Dei, whose speech was read for him, said the chiefs and people have a two-and-half square-kilometre land ready for the project and as soon as the implementers arrived the title deed in their name would be handed over to them.

He said the University, which would be the first in the eastern corridor of the country, would benefit every Ghanaian.

Dr Thompson, an African-American, said ''it is time to correct the incidents in history that separated blacks.''

Mr Bernard Duose, President of the Peki Union, told the Ghana News Agency that the Maryland University Campus in Peki would be one of the two to be established in Africa. The other one would be sited in South Africa.

He said among the delegation to Peki were experts from the Department of Technology, who would carry out feasibility studies, adding that the project could start within the next two years.