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UTAG STRIKE: AKUFO-ADDO MUST INTERVENE – NUGS

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Authority of different Students Representative Councils (SRC) are requesting that President Akufo-Addo intervenes within the mechanical activity by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG).

 

 

Agreeing to them, his hush has been as well boisterous on the matter.

 

In spite of the fact that open universities reopened seven weeks ago lectures are however to start as the strike has brought academic work to a halt.

 

The General Secretary of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), Julius Kwame Anthony accepts that ought to the President lock in lecturers, they will go back to post.

 

 

Talking on JoyNews’ The Probe, Mr Anthony famous that in spite of the fact that government teach are locks in UTAG, none of them have accomplished the specified result.

 

 

“There's one person who has not talked on this matter and we require him to do that which person is the President of the Republic.

 

“So it'll make a part of contrast since he is the head of government and he talks and things move. In the event that he gives enlightening all these individuals will comply so he ought to come and state his position on the matter,” he expressed.

 

 

The NUGS General Secretary, in any case, restricted the thought of understudies promptly considering dissenting.

 

Concurring to him, SRC Presidents ought to appeal the President, for a assembly to find an agreeable arrangement to the issue.

 

“Last year, we did that and it was not long after that activity was taken. So I think it is as it were after assembly the President and on the off chance that nothing happens at that point we are able to illustrate,” he intimated.

 

 

In the interim, the Executives of UTAG have encouraged individuals to honor their choice to return to the classroom on Monday, February 28, 2022.

 

Be that as it may, a referendum conducted by the UTAG’s National Executive Committee appear an overpowering dismissal from open colleges of the choice to choose up their instruments.

 

Majority of lecturers over a few seven open colleges within the nation have voted against the choice by UTAG’s National Official Committee (NEC) to suspend its nationwide strike.

 

 

The contradicting lecturers incorporate addresses from the College of Education, Winneba (UEW); the College of Ghana, Legon; the College of Vitality and Natural Resources (UENR); the Kwame Nkrumah College of Science and Innovation (KNUST); the College for Professional Thinks about, Accra (UPSA) and the SD-Dombo College of Commerce and Integrated Advancement Considers.

 

Concurring to the votes collated from these 7 public colleges, an overpowering larger part of the lecturers do not need UTAG to suspend its nationwide strike.

 

The College of Cape Coast and other part educate are however to cast their votes on NEC’s choice.

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