We have become Highly Indebted Poor Universities - Addai Mensah

Following the NPP government's ushering the nation into the much-talked-about club of Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the University of Ghana, Professor Ivan Addai-Mensah, has, in view of the precarious financial position of the nation's universities, declared them "Highly Indebted Poor Universities" (HIPU).

"While this country has during the past few weeks been discussing whether to declare itself a member of HIPC, we in the universities have also been wondering what our status is within the comity of world universities, in so far as our financial position is concerned.

Now that the government has thought it prudent to publicly declare Ghana as a member of HIPC, we in the universities have no alternative but to declare ourselves as members of the Highly Indebted Poor Universities (HIPU)