{"id":466160,"date":"2018-02-21T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/21\/university-of-ghana-has-not-treated-me-fairly-prof-ernest-aryeetey\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T06:00:27","slug":"university-of-ghana-has-not-treated-me-fairly-prof-ernest-aryeetey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/21\/university-of-ghana-has-not-treated-me-fairly-prof-ernest-aryeetey\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Ghana has not treated me fairly \u2013 Prof Ernest Aryeetey"},"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, 21 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-21<\/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\/76297021.295.jpg\" alt=\"Profaryeetey\" title=\"Profaryeetey\" width=\"295\" height=\"168\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Professor Ernest Aryeetey says new managers of the Univeristy of Ghana have been unfair to him<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519192827_935_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ernest Aryeetey is saddened by what he describes as a deliberate attempt by the new managers of the institution not to give him a fair hearing as regards some allegations leveled against him.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there have been several reports by the University on some major projects his administration undertook but unfortunately, his rebuttals have been ignored for reasons best known to the current administration led by Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was about to retire, I was looking forward to be able to write my books, do my research, travel around the world\u2026 I didn\u2019t think that I would be spending the first year of my retirement fighting to salvage my reputation. I don\u2019t enjoy talking about the University of Ghana like this but I\u2019ve reached the point where it\u2019s my reputation\u201d he said. \u201cSomebody is destroying you and you\u2019re held back in term of how far you can go to defend yourself. You don\u2019t want to sound negative about the institution that you used to run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople tell me, \u2018oh don\u2019t take it personal\u2019. You\u2019re destroying me and you say I shouldn\u2019t take it personal. How else do you take things? I try very hard not to take it personal. The reason I do such interviews [is that] I think it\u2019s important Ghanaians told the truth. If the truth favors me, fine; If it doesn\u2019t\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the University under the leadership of Prof. Aryeetey entered into a Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement with Africa Integras to invest US$64 million in the construction of 1,000 new students\u2019 hostel beds for undergraduate and post-graduate students on the Legon campus.<\/p>\n<p>The said project was structured as a 25-year Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) contract. However reports were rife quite recently that the University signed the agreement without doing due diligence.<\/p>\n<p>But Prof. Aryeetey in an interview on \u201921 Minutes with KKB\u2019 refuted the claims, requesting that an independent body be set up to investigate all contract and projects during his tenure since new handlers of the institution have crippled every attempt he has made to present the facts of the issue to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have struggled over the past year to get the University community to get exactly the processes we went through to get the projects in place. Some of mine efforts to inform the University through emails, have been made impossible by the university by blocking the email. [My] email to the University community has been blocked so I\u2019ve had to find other ways to get my voice heard. It\u2019s not fair,\u201d he averred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA report was written by a committee that was put together by the Vice Chancellor to look at the Africa Integras project. I wrote a rebuttal to the report; University of Ghana wouldn\u2019t even allow academic work to see my comments on the report\u201d said Prof Aryeetey. \u201cThe Vice Chancellor made a presentation to the Academic Board based on that report which was largely false. I wrote comments on it. I said, \u2018when you\u2019re going to distribute this to the board, add my comments to it\u2019. It wasn\u2019t done. So I\u2019m forced to use public means to get my voice heard. That is not my first choice. My first choice would have been account to a meeting of the University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project was set to include the construction of an expanded facility for the College of Humanities, a new College of Education, a new dedicated facility for the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, and the Institute of Technology and Applied Science, as well as a new facility for the College of Health Sciences, which will be located near the new teaching hospital on campus.<\/p>\n<p>For Prof. Aryeetey, the project was in the interest of the University of Ghana. Without mincing words, he maintained that the contract was subjected to rigorous scrutiny, describing the posture of the institution as unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the University of Ghana has decided, for whatever reason, to take different position on decisions we took collectively. The University of Ghana and its new management has decided that many of the decisions that we took need to be relooked. 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