Prof Ransford Gyampo, a lecturer at the University of Ghana’s Political Science Department and the General Secretary of the University Teachers Association University of Ghana chapter (UTAG-UG), has stated that their own students are outsmarting them.
After negotiations between the two parties did not proceed as expected, UTAG has called a statewide strike to emphasize the need for improved service conditions from the Ghanaian government.
Ransford Gyampo said the government hasn’t reached out to the University Teachers since they began their current strike on January 10 in an interview with Accra-based Metro TV.
He claims that teachers are tired of ineffective meetings and negotiations, and that they are looking forward to the government acting and ensuring that their requests are satisfied.
Prof Ransford Gyampo statement ; We are not expecting any swift communication on the part of the government. I think we are tired of the meetings, we don’t eat meetings, we don’t eat negotiations. We’ve been negotiating for better conditions of service since 2014 up until now and so I am completely scandalized by those people who feel that we should still be negotiating and strike is not the best way. You cannot negotiate in perpetuity, you cannot spend all the time of your life meeting. Meeting from 2014 to 2022 and we cannot find a solution to peoples quest for better conditions of service.
It appears that government and I use government as generically that government speaks and understands one language which is for us to strike and that is what our people have decided to do so I’m complying with what our people have said we should do,” he said on Metro TV.
I think our people have said that there are so many bureaucratic bottlenecks, there are so many cunning, deceitful strategies that are employed to always outsmart university Teachers who taught policymakers. People you taught are trying to outsmart you when you meet with them, I think we are tired of those things and we don’t want all those tricks
Prof Gyampo refuted claims that they are being pressured to do the opposition’s bidding.
“It has nothing to do with the government, and it has nothing to do with the opposition.” It has everything to do with our working conditions, which we believe are deplorable, and so we must work to articulate the issues so that they are addressed by the government; we are not in opposition to the government.”
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