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Kpessah Whyte: Is the University of Ghana a State unto itself?

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  • Lizz 11 years ago

    As a presidential staffer, do the work first before you complain about an institution. You have collapsed the country, made it lawless and you are complaining. Ask mahama, if legon is a state unto itself.

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    this govt is soaked in corruption and has compromised our future with their shady deals with the Chinese . you talk of humble beginnings only to support those who destroy any chances we have at a better future for our childre ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 11 years ago

    NKWASEAFO BI NTI GHANA IS SICK!!! THE CEDI HAS ALREADY DIVED DEEP DOWN!!!!!!!------ WE NEED NANA'S WISDOM. HIS LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND L ...
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  • Kay 11 years ago

    Ghanaian politicians just do not have a conscience,when the Premier University roads were in deplorable we did not hear their voices.I support Legon Authority in whatever decision they will take to maintain their roads.

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

    University of Ghana authorities have descended into lawlessness because the current government is weak and incompetent. The statement issued by the university and the reasons contained therein for this stupidity are laughable ...
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  • Y3ntei Obiaa 11 years ago

    Power Politics will describe as "low-intensity efforts aimed at regime change". It those whose LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY is being openly challenged are content to lok on unperturbed,then why should those of us on the outside look ...
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  • Paapa 11 years ago

    Thank you my brother.

  • KKO 11 years ago

    Kofi,
    Apart from the incompetence and cluelessness of the current government, the University of Ghana may have a point. When I was at UST in the early 1970s, tro tro vehicles were not allowed on campus. If one took a taxi fr ...
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  • Y3ntei Obiaa 11 years ago

    The objective of the UG dons has never been about traffic control or safety per se! These guys are ticked off because the govt has prevented them from making key decisions on infrasrtuctural expenditure in this country. The ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

    NPP members have vowed to use their positions to play politics. This idiot we mistakenly call Vice-Chancellor is not even discrete in his evil ways. May God curse this wicked man.

    I now agree with Boko Haram: That western ...
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  • PRISCA 11 years ago

    Why curse the VC? Simply discuss the issue please.Legon has been turned into a "lorry station" The government should create routes for those who use campus roads as thorougfare.

  • E Afful 11 years ago

    Oxford University township operate a system called 'Park & Ride' You park your car at the University entrance and join a bus. I agree with the VC

  • YES 11 years ago

    MAY BE MAHAMA HAS SOLD THE UNIVERSITY. CONSIDERING WHAT THE AUTHORITIES ARE SAYING AND DOING. GHANAIANS MUST WAKE UP...

  • Akita 11 years ago

    U r a fool paaa

  • St. akpana 11 years ago

    When you were in Legon, you were a Vandal but had wanted to occupy an inner room in Sarbah and you were prevented. Such a crook and now people like you are questioning the school's authority?

  • Nii 11 years ago

    Just go back and look at the picture of that man again and you will see the bulldog image in that picture. No wonder the Bulldog thinking in that man is currently at work. He is bulldozing his way through anything he comes ...
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  • Nii Bi 11 years ago

    Ayitey is exercising his authority. He took a democratic stance in his leadership. His vision to turn the university into a modern community of sanity is laudable. If he is a bulldog as you suggest, show me one chiwawa in you ...
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  • Y3ntei Obiaa 11 years ago

    Is crazy,but I beg to differ! And I find it strange that this fmr. Prof. at Legon is posing such a silly rhetorical question to invite our condemnation. I believe he still remains an adviser at the Prtesidency,and ought to b ...
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  • One Man 11 years ago

    When would you learn to know that the university is an autonomous community which set its own laws and take independent decisions? You and your aimless government has turned the whole nation into a lawless country and you try ...
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  • Obournana 11 years ago

    It is not autonomous because the government pays them and supports them in everything. The private universities are are autonomous. Learn, this is a public university so they cannot do anything they want without the governmen ...
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  • AMB 11 years ago

    The VC clearly has a problem. University of Ghana is a public and not private entity. VC should be relieved of his position

  • Kwame 11 years ago

    If anyone needs to be relieved of his position, it is the idiot Gbevlo Lartey but bcos your gov't is inept he is still around. The univ is applying the law and the FOOLS in your gov't are applying old-time brute force. Agyimi ...
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  • GIRLZ GIRLZ 11 years ago

    With their so-called titles: professor emeritus, professors, doctors and so on look at the stupid things they are doing at 100,000th ranking university in the world

  • LISULA 11 years ago

    Where did you obtain the information about the ranking???? Make substantive arguments!!!!!

  • GIRLZ GIRLZ 11 years ago

    go to google and tpye in '2014 universities rankings' and you will know the position of Bawumia's Simon Frazer(206) and univ of Ghana (100,000). If am wrong tell the whole world that am a liar.

  • Naana Adjoa 11 years ago

    We have seen better VC's in the past. Mr. Government the UG Council and the VC are making your Government unpopular. Please call them to order. This behaviour is not acceptable.

  • Dayton 11 years ago

    The government should called Aryeetey to his sense before it´s too late! It is as though there is no laws in this country. What is he talking about? Is this man the first man to hold such position in the history of the Uni ...
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  • Joe Turkey 11 years ago

    It appears there are two fools here vying for power. Several years ago Legon was an ideal academic institution near Accra. The poor villagers around did not even have bicycles. Today, thanks mainly to corruption, all the area ...
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  • Pioneer Madina Resident 11 years ago

    Good observation,the solution to this is for the govt to create very good bus stops around the university for the public/students to use to commute into the university.They just cannot allow everybody to drive on Legon campus ...
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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    With the warped analysis being bandied around, I suggest, we should ask authorities at the Kotoka Int'l Airport to allow road construction thru the airport land so that people from Teshie etc can easily come to the east legon ...
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  • Paapa 11 years ago

    Thank You.

  • Tibaa 11 years ago

    Dear Mr. Vice-Chancellor

    As a Legonite (and a proud Farmer of Akuafo Hall), it is with deep regret that I write you this note.

    You are trying to turn the center of knowledge and deep analytical thinking into a jungle wh ...
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  • PRISCA 11 years ago

    Peanut-brained Big Heada(Tibaa).You can't be a legonite judging from your reasoning.Legon Campus has been turned into a market place like Makola or lorry station like Tudu. This is not good for an academic institution ITO saf ...
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  • Elsie 11 years ago

    You could not have been a student of UG. You are clearly delusional.

  • JB Awotwi-Black 11 years ago

    The current state of Legon is like Koforidua lorry park: people, lot of vehicles: tro-tro, taxis and private vehicles, kiosks plus dirt etc.

    The place merely bears the name of a university campus, but in reality it is not ...
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  • ayera 11 years ago

    Being a Ghanaian is dangerous but being a Ghanaian Dr. or Professor is even Calamitous.
    Since 1957, Ghana has depended on these clowns for direction and look at the state the Country is in.

  • Paapa 11 years ago

    hahahhahahahahahhahhahahah

  • Chelsea Rolland 11 years ago

    The president is confuse no law is working n is a pitty

  • Kwame 11 years ago

    Yaw oppong= the univ is not referring to itself as a private property but the laws that confers on it such status. read.

    Kpessah Whyte= are you going back to the university? Do you reason with them no longer. Stop talking ...
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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    Let us respect law and order, and ourselves. On the N1 motorway people cross any how, which is not the case in any civilized country. No one passes through his neighbour's house to access his own. It is a law in the ministrie ...
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  • kobby 11 years ago

    Did the university consult the govt before going for the loan to refurbish the campus roads? I feel the campus roads are the responsibility of the state (state institution). If the university wants to take the initiative, the ...
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  • Afari 11 years ago

    Why are Ghanaians making all this noise. I thought this is one of the very reasons that the law courts exist. If Ghanaians think somebody is acting above the law, then they should take him to court for the court to decide unl ...
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  • Jojo 11 years ago

    When Kpessah started he was independent, now he is NDC or not? He is forgetting that when NDC is in opposition he will activate his lectureship position at UG. Lets take politics out and solve problems in Ghana

  • Mike Gizo 11 years ago

    Talk sense cos Ghanaians are discerning listeners. Can't any body c the incompetence of ndc that is affecting everything in Ghana?

    Move on UG, go on Legon at least some good number of critical minds back your effort to rai ...
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  • kkbelle 11 years ago

    And can the citezenry inconvenience the University?

  • kkbelle 11 years ago

    Can the citezenry be allowed to inconvenience the University?

  • PRISCA 11 years ago

    Dr Kpessah-White must earn his keep so he has joined the anti-Legon Chorus

  • Sisko 11 years ago

    The simplest answer is too get the vice chancellor and his cabal sacked.

  • Abugre John 11 years ago

    Managers of the few government entities, companies & corporations, should learn from Legon and their entities will not collapse. Take decisions which would benefit the sustenance of your institutions and the people will event ...
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  • Joeman, Saboba 11 years ago

    All indiscipline and arrogance originate from the classroom. Legon is a classical example

  • NII ARMAH 11 years ago

    THIS EX LECTURER UPON USING POOR TAX PAYERS MONEY TO FURTHER HIS EDUCATION SEEMS TO GET IT ALL WRONG. IS SAD AND UNFORTUNATE. IMAGINE THE FEW CEDIS THE UNIVERSITY AUTHORITIES WILL MAKE? THEY DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR GOVERNMENT ...
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  • PRISCA 11 years ago

    My friends make him "talk some" so that he can "eat some"

  • Kwaku London 11 years ago

    The University is an autonomous institution and can act as it did to manage its affairs efficiently. It is applying hard headed commercial commonsense to sold its problems. It should stay put and not allow itself to be swayed ...
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  • JOJO 11 years ago

    SACK THE MAD BABY ELEPHANT VC ARYEETEY

  • TIMO 11 years ago

    Lawlessness nu a ji berbiaaaa

  • ERIC 11 years ago

    WHERE IS THE NATIONAL SECURITY AT ALL? WHY CAN'T HE ORDERS HIS MEN TO GO AND BEAT THE SECURITY MEN AT THE GATE.

  • ANANE 11 years ago

    YES, THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA IS BEHAVING LIKE A STATE UNTO ITSELF. ALL GHANAIANS FACE THE SAME PROBLEMS OF SECURITY AND TRAFFIC JAMS AS THE UNIVERSITY. ORDINARY ROAD USERS SHOULD COME TOGETHER AND BLOCKADE ALL ROADS LEADING T ...
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  • Frank 11 years ago

    REMOVE THE VICE CHANCELLOR. HE SHOULD BE SACKED IMMEDIATELY. THIS FOOLISHNESS MUST STOP. THIS CORRUPTION IN THE HIGHEST ORDER. HE THINKS THE UNIVERSITY IS HIS PRIVATE INSTITUTION. GET HIM OUT. IDIOT.