{"id":464391,"date":"2018-02-14T20:43:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T20:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/14\/prof-anku-blasts-ges-education-ministry-for-not-honouring-national-mathematics-day-invitation\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T20:43:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T20:43:54","slug":"prof-anku-blasts-ges-education-ministry-for-not-honouring-national-mathematics-day-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/14\/prof-anku-blasts-ges-education-ministry-for-not-honouring-national-mathematics-day-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Anku blasts GES, Education Ministry for not honouring National Mathematics Day invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 14 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-14<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/22017351.295.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Sitsofe Bore\" title=\"Prof Sitsofe Bore\" width=\"295\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Prof, Anku said he personally invited the Education Minister and the GES to the event<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> President of the Ghana Mathematics Society, Professor Sitsofe Enyonam Anku has lambasted the Education Minister and the Ghana Education Service for failing to honour his invitation to the 2018 National Mathematics Day celebration.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed his displeasure at the lack of interest exhibited by the Education Ministry and the GES.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Anku disclosed that he personally invited the Education Minister, as a special guest, and personnel from GES but none of them showed up for the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet it be on record that nobody has come. I\u2019ve invited all of them. They are not here. I don\u2019t know if the Minister is going to come. He is supposed to be our guest speaker. I wrote them, and I was with them. They were supposed to give us a bus. Yesterday, they told me that the bus has broken down. We couldn\u2019t get a bus to even get us to this place, let alone pick students\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticized companies and corporate entities who do not support academic activities, but rather patronize beauty pageants which promote nudity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went to many sponsors. All they told us was yours is a very good programme but sorry, we don\u2019t have enough money. When it is Mathematics, you don\u2019t have money for it. They do that all the time. I keep telling some people if they are going to organize a beauty contest, Miss Mathematics, and the girls are supposed to come and show their buttocks and breasts, everybody will come. 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