Monday, 2nd November, 2015.
NATIONAL UNION OF GHANA STUDENTS
PRESS RELEASE
PAYMENT OF UTILITY BILLS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF STUDENTS AND VICE-CHANCELLORS BUT THE GOVERNMENT
The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) wishes to inform Ghana Students and the general public to regard the supposed meeting of Vice-Chancellors Ghana (VC Ghana) and the various Students Representative Councils (SRC) in the public tertiary institutions on payment of utility bills on Tuesday, 3rd November, 2015 at University of Professional Studies (UPSA) as “Just a gathering of SRCs” and not a decision making body of Ghana students.
NUGS believes that any decision that would be binding on Ghana Students and generations to come needs to follow the right procedure and not just a meeting between VC Ghana and SRCs which is not recognized by any law as a highest decision making body for Ghana Students. The highest decision making body according to the constitution of NUGS (the recognized Ghana Students movement by law) is congress and not a gathering of SRCs.
We bemoan the Government’s backslide in settling the debt it owes the utility providers which is the basis for VC Ghana in pushing the payment of utilities to students. We are by this sending a plea to Government to settle its debts and set students free once and for all from paying utility bills.
Lastly, we want to unambiguously state that we disagree with the idea that the Governments financial burden must be the burden of the ordinary Ghanaian students, we therefore encourage VC Ghana to invest in ways that will push the Government to pay instead of Students to pay utilities.
Education continues to be a right and not a privilege as stipulated by the 1992 constitution of Ghana.
Thank you.
SIGNED
Thomas Takyi-Bonsu
Press & Information Secretary, NUGS
0546060200
Paa-Quecy Adu
President,
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Richmond Asare Tinkaro
NATIONAL UNION OF GHANA STUDENTS
PRESS RELEASE
PAYMENT OF UTILITY BILLS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF STUDENTS AND VICE-CHANCELLORS BUT THE GOVERNMENT
The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) wishes to inform Ghana Students and the general public to regard the supposed meeting of Vice-Chancellors Ghana (VC Ghana) and the various Students Representative Councils (SRC) in the public tertiary institutions on payment of utility bills on Tuesday, 3rd November, 2015 at University of Professional Studies (UPSA) as “Just a gathering of SRCs” and not a decision making body of Ghana students.
NUGS believes that any decision that would be binding on Ghana Students and generations to come needs to follow the right procedure and not just a meeting between VC Ghana and SRCs which is not recognized by any law as a highest decision making body for Ghana Students. The highest decision making body according to the constitution of NUGS (the recognized Ghana Students movement by law) is congress and not a gathering of SRCs.
We bemoan the Government’s backslide in settling the debt it owes the utility providers which is the basis for VC Ghana in pushing the payment of utilities to students. We are by this sending a plea to Government to settle its debts and set students free once and for all from paying utility bills.
Lastly, we want to unambiguously state that we disagree with the idea that the Governments financial burden must be the burden of the ordinary Ghanaian students, we therefore encourage VC Ghana to invest in ways that will push the Government to pay instead of Students to pay utilities.
Education continues to be a right and not a privilege as stipulated by the 1992 constitution of Ghana.
Thank you.
SIGNED
Thomas Takyi-Bonsu
Press & Information Secretary, NUGS
0546060200
Paa-Quecy Adu
President,
Shared by
Richmond Asare Tinkaro
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