Serious questions are being asked about the administration of Professor Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, the Vice-Chancellor of the Ghana Communication Technology University (GCTU), Tesano in Accra, following recent suggestions that he may have by-passed established systems to divert scholarships for his favourites.
Recently the GNPC Foundation gifted GCTU with thirty scholarships, but Professor Ohene Afoakwa is reported to have diverted the award to personal favourites, a development that is reportedly causing consternation among students and academic staff.
Sources close to general administration have told the Daily Searchlight that under the scholarship scheme, the university was to identify needy but brilliant students in various departments to receive the scholarship.
“He rather unilaterally imposed a list of personal favourites without going through due process,” the source at the prestigious university stated.
Explaining, the source said that normally, the Vice-Chancellor should have set up a search committee to identify qualified needy students across all departments at the university.
The source stated that after the formation of the committee, the opportunity should have been advertised among the student and academic body for prospective applicants to apply for the facility.
He said that the search committee would then have qualified the candidates to receive the award.
“Instead of such a transparent process, he unilaterally imposed the candidates on the school,” the source said.
The source stated that what is worse is that most of the students who received the award come from a particular region in Ghana.
“There is reason to believe that a preponderant number of those who qualified come from a certain region, whilst other regions are totally absent in the list, or are represented in only a token manner,” the source stated.
Late yesterday, the Daily Searchlight tried to reach Professor Ohene Afoakwa but he was not responding to his calls.
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