Source: Campus 24/7 News
The Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Hon. Inusah Fuseini has echoed the president’s voice of ‘Ghana beyond Aid’ stating that Ghanaians should not attribute it to only the NPP’s administration but should see it as a collective effort to end foreign aid. That is a collective responsibility of Lecturers, students, and all well-meaning Ghanaians to see Ghana beyond aid even though it cannot be achieved in four (4) or eight (8) years.
The Member of Parliament stated this at the launch Seminar of the Nyankpala campus Students’ Representative Council’s (SRC) week celebration. The celebration is on the theme: “Tertiary Education a major determinant in building a Ghana free from Aid through youth empowerment and good governance”.
The seminar was well attended by students, lecturers, heads of department and the Vice Dean of Students’ Affairs, Dr. Raphael Adu Gyamfi who represented the Principal of the Campus; Prof. George Nyarko.
The president of the SRC, H. E. Zeinab Mohammed Denderi who is the first female SRC president in the four campuses of UDS, used the opportunity to call on the MP, Government and other stakeholders to come to their aid as water situation in the Nyankpala community is unbearable. Students sometimes would have to wait for about a week before they can get water, which is a worrying situation.
Mr. Fuseini said he has always supported the ‘Ghana beyond aid’ and called on Ghanaians to embrace it and work on it to really free Ghana from aid. According to him, any country or group of people who are still under aid, have gotten total freedom.
“There is no doubt that aid which arises out of poverty, is an infringement on the dignity of man” the MP stated.
The guest speaker, Hon. Inusah Fuseini Abdulai advised students that life is like being on stage and you have to take control of the stage, the position you are occupying, you have to testify the position you are holding by doing your best and that no one has never succeeded in life without hard work.
He also added that as students, if you are not aspiring to be like your lecturers as they have made it to the position of doctors and professors, then they should put it at their mind that human beings renew themselves by replacement, and that their lectures will not be there one day and are they prepared to take that mantle?
He encourages the students not to be discouraged by the background they are coming from but should be driven by passion. ” Ghana beyond aid does not accept failure,” he said.
He recalled how his education was merely by chance, yet it did not prevent him from excelling.
