[ 2014-10-24 ]

Presby University Suspends 4 Officials
Reports reaching DAILY GUIDE indicate that four
top officials, including reverend ministers, of
the Presbyterian University College (PUC), have
been suspended indefinitely for alleged financial
malpractices and mismanagement.

The affected officials are Reverend Asamoah Boadu,
Accountant/Director of Finance; his deputy, Martin
Amaniampong; the Coordinator of Tema Campus,
Reverend Adu Okoree and the Director of Works,
Kobby Lartey, who is the son of the outgoing
President of the institution.

According to sources, the University Council, at
the instance of the Moderator of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rt.
Rev. Professor Emmanuel Martey, has set up a
committee to investigate the activities of the
suspended officials.

DAILY GUIDE gathered that the outgoing president,
Professor Kofi Sraku Lartey and Kwadwo Amo Osei,
the Registrar of the University, had been accused
of putting up hostels at the various campuses of
the institution namely, Abetifi, Agogo and
Akuapim-Akropong and rented them out to students
at exorbitant rates.

Our sources intimated that the director of finance
and the management had not been paying the
lecturers appropriate salaries as they (lecturers)
are said to receive not more than GH¢600 basic
salary.

The sources added that the outgoing president
appointed his son, Kobby Lartey, as the director
of works who was in-charge of all projects at the
various campuses, after his first degree in Civil
Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology [KNUST].

The four suspended officials, this paper was
informed, had put up mansions in Accra,
Kwahu-Pepease and Nkwatia and are riding in 4×4
vehicles, which most of the staff and the students
had been complaining of, wondering where they got
the money from to finance those projects.

In related development, a retired lecturer, Dr.
Adu Opako, has taken the university to an Accra
High Court for failing to pay him his nine
months’ salary amounting
to GH¢10,000, and claiming other damages. The
case is scheduled for November this year for
hearing.

Registrar’s Reactions
When DAILY GUIDE contacted the Registrar, Amo
Osei, about the matter, he failed to comment on
it.

Mr. Amo further directed this reporter to contact
the University Public Relations Officer, Reverend
Kofi Antwi, who also denied knowledge of it, and
asked for one week to find out more about it.

There is every indication that some of the
university staff were also gearing up to take
court action against the authorities concerning
the malpractices.

Source - Daily Guide

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