Chiefs and Elders of Kwahu Afram Plains have appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to rescind his decision on relocating Donkorkrom campus of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development to Bunso.
According them, they prefer a university to any other development.
Addressing journalists at Donkorkrom, the district capital of Kwahu Afram Plains North in the Eastern region on Monday, November 20, 2017 the Amankuahene of the Kwahu Afram Plains Traditional Area, Nana Okuntu Sakyi who was clad in red said “the people of Afram Plains are not against government’s plans to site additional campuses aside the two mentioned in the Act establishing the University in any community it wants to do that”.
“What we simply want is the dictates of Act 898 (section 3) to be followed. Let the campuses (Donkorkrom and Somanya) be duly established before any other campus as the University council may deem fit”, Nana Okuntu Sakyi said.
According to him, it was improper to relocate the University campus to Donkorkrom.
Nana Okuntu Sakyi, further explained that Afram Plains had for years suffered a lot of setbacks due to its location.
However, he said, there was a renewed hope when the news of sitting a university campus reached them.
“We were extremely happy when the news to establish a tertiary institution in the Kwahu enclave specifically in Donkorkrom (Afram Plains) reached us because we know how beneficial it will be to us”, he indicated.
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