Krobo Bloc NPP Communication Bureau: Setting the Records Right About the University of Environment and Sustainability Development (UESD)

Press Release: Wednesday, 5th August 2020

Krobos are grateful to HE Nana Addo for doing all it takes to mobilize funds for the construction of the University of Environment and Sustainability Development , as stated in the attached press release of Contracta, dated 21st May 2018.

We are also grateful to the previous government for ensuring the enactment of the UESD Act .

However, we will not forget the story that led us here, the lies perpetuated by the NDC that that Nana Addo’s government will never construct the university.

We have also not forgotten the lies of the the NDC that, the university , including it key installations has been moved to kyebi. We will pardon them for how clueless they are on issues of enactments and the steps it takes for a University to be established.

We will also not forget the lies they told us that ndc has made funds available for the University’s construction.

The facts are as follows;

1. The framework agreement signed between the Government of Ghana and Exim Bank of South Korea for the construction of the university stated specifically that the university’s four faculties would be sited in Somanya. Indeed, prior to this, Donkorkrom had been considered as a site by the bank at the suggestion of the previous government and rejected.
2. The previous government reneged on this agreement by bringing in a contractor from Brazil to do the work Exim Bank had been contracted to do. Exim Bank protested strongly against the breach of faith and decided to abandon the project as it did not intend to share the site with the Brazilian contractor.
3. Exim Bank requested another site for a campus of the university, failing which it would pull out of the project altogether. Eventually, it settled on the Bunso Agricultural College as the nucleus of another campus of the university, and on agreement with government, moved to commence work there.
4. In its handover notes during the transition, the previous government did not mention Donkorkrom as a prospective site, clearly because there had been no agreement to site a university campus there. Indeed, on page 21 of the handing over notes, it is stated;
5. Following the enactment of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development Act 2015(Act 898) Parliament has approved a loan facility of Forty-Five Million Five Hundred and Seventy-Five Thousand Euros (€45,575,000.00) for the establishment of the proposed University at Somanya in the Eastern Region.
6. The University of Environment and Development Studies (UEDS), like all public projects, is a national one.
7. It must be stated for the avoidance of doubt that in making decisions on project siting and the disbursement of public funds in this country, the government under the leadership of President Nana Akufo-Addo is solely guided by the public interest above everything else. This is the only way to build a fair, equitable and prosperous country.

We are all witnesses to how the UESD became a reality.

The Eastern University was captured in 2009 budget statement-No show
Was captured in 2010 budget-No show
Was captured in 2011 budget-No show
Was captured in 2012 budget-No show
Was captured in 2013 budget-no show
Was captured in 2014 budget-No show
Was captured in 2015 budget-No show
Was captured in 2016 budget-No show

But under Nana Addo in 3yrs this project has seen start and completion. With the second phase to start immediately.

As the UESD is commissioned today we also see the start of the second phase.

For years ndc has won the seat of kroboland yet we have not seen any monumental project by them to the people of kroboland.

It is only NPP that is has taken the development of kloma as it major priority, the evidence is the University of Environment and Sustainability Department that is being commissioned today.

We say Thank you HE Nana Addo.

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Signed
05/08/2020
Krobo Bloc NPP Communication Bureau