Ghana is being saddled with some rot in academia which is fast sinking this country. In the highest institutions, some lecturers will print out notes for students and make them buy them at prices beyond their pockets. They will take the index numbers of students who bought these literatures and award them marks ahead of exams.
Those who could not buy and thus do not have their index numbers in the books of the lecturers will have some marks deducted ahead of exams. This is where bribery, instead of good morals, is taught in theory, to be put into practice when the student gets into the world to work.
The worse lecture taught, which is not into any university syllabuses, is the subject of Using What You Have To Get What You Want. This is where sex-for-grades come in. If a student is bent on making it, without serious studies, then they have to agree to have sex with a male or female lecturer.
Now, when the student goes into the world, he or she will use their position or status to wrongly get what they want.
So, if academia has not put a stop at these two vices, what moral rights have some lecturers got to comment on national issues? After all, if it is matter of corruption, it is the lecturers who teach it in the universities.
Prof. Gyampo: After, his blush with international exposé on his immoral acts, caught on camera, for wooing a lady and proposing marriage to her, while he was married, and after he was suspended by the university and wrongly re-instated, one would have assumed that Prof. Gyampo would lie low. The other professor caught in the act has since kept a low profile.
When people went out calling for the resignation of Governor Ernest Addison, one would have taught that Prof Gyampo would have distanced himself. But as is always the case, whenever thieves are being pursued, other thieves will also join in the pursuit.
To add to the voice of those calling on the governor to resign, and the governor’s rejection of their plea, Prof Gyampo published a six-point stinker to Dr. Addison. Incidentally, all six relates to his immoral life.
Firstly, Prof. stated that ‘Your response to the tax payers and demonstrators is unprecedented. You want to determine how they voice their dissatisfaction about your abysmal performance?’
In the first place, where abysmal performance, is defined as what? Is his performance as a lecturer in line with the universal code of conduct of lecturing and student-lecturer relationship?
And hear him talk about democracy. If indeed democracy thrives in Ghana as should be the case, lecturers like Prof. Ransford Gyampo should be out in the streets by now, selling dog chains. Enough evidence on camera proves that he fully engages in sex-for-grade.
What was he suspended for after the enquiries into his unholy act of attempting to seduce a young lady in order to make her have a placement in the university? It is very clear the kind of relationship the professor would have with the lady, if indeed she was a student seeking placement and got it through Prof Gyampo.
Secondly, Prof. stated that ‘Isn’t it under your watch that the BoG has negative equity? If my understanding of negative equity is correct, it means the BoG has no money to operate.’ Prof Gyampo might have gotten some education from a wrong finance lecturer, and here I suspect Prof. Bopkin.
The truth is negative equity occurs when the value of an asset one owns is less than the outstanding balance on the loan.While negative equity can be an indication to investors and lenders that the firm is in trouble, it is not the same as insolvency and does not mean that the firm will go bankrupt.
Thirdly, Prof. is saying to Governor Addison that ‘The BoG is currently insolvent under your watch and it doesn’t lie in your mouth to offer your own definition of what insolvency is.’ The evidence is clear that BoG is not insolvent, because if it were, there will be no money in the system, workers will not be paid and the country will be in a financial lockdown.
In his fourth point, he, stated that, ‘Your attitude and response epitomize what my father referred to as IMPUNITY PERSONIFIED.’People whose party when in government, did the worse things through BoG, have decided to sanctify their unholiness and so chose to remove a speck in the eye of BoG while their eyes have forests in them.
And Prof. Gyampo is expecting that the BoG governor yields to their demand? And look who is referring to someone as impunity personified. After all the immoral acts he has been doing on campus, Prof. Gyampo has the impunity to talk morals.
Fifthly, he is listing some past governors of BoG calling them sober and competent and not as abysmal performers as Governor Addison. Prof Gyampo has revealed his corrupt mindedness here by whitewashing Governor Abdul Nashiru Issahaku. It was under this governor, that BoG went into a deal with Sibton Switch and signed an illegal contract which was to cost Ghana $1.2 billion, when the project actually cost $100 million.
It was also under Governor Issahaku, that the Public Procurement Authority’s approval of maximum liability of GH¢300,000.00 for BoG in its deal with Sibton Switch was illegally increased to over 8,600 times to GH¢2.6 billion or $478 million at that time. And Prof. Gyampo is calling this governor competent. Can one suggest that he benefited from something? And it was this same Governor Addison who saved Ghana.
Sixthly, Prof. is saying to Governor Addison that ‘Whether you resign or not, you would by all means, account one day, for your stewardship either in heaven or in hell or in prison or in your home.’ Prof. Ransford Gyampo has the audacity to curse someone. Some fine gentleman is doing his work as the case should be. Some band of people who want to cover-up their corrupt past, decided to descend on him, and Prof. Gyampo is here cursing this gentleman.
How many young ladies, who had vowed to keep their virginity until they are properly married, lost that holy gift when they had to succumb to Prof Gyampo’s evil ways? How many otherwise very brilliant ladies, got sacked from university because they refused to dishonour God by saying No, to Prof. Gyampo and had poor grades?
How many otherwise poor and unintelligent female students did Prof. Gyampo made sure they had deserved grades, because they said Yes, to him? And how is the country faring with these academically unbaked women in the system?
By turning what is good into evil, Prof Gyampo must know that he has blasphemed against the Holy Spirit and as Christ said, such a sin cannot be pardoned on earth and also not in the life hereafter, (Matthew 12: 31-32).
I will not lay any curse on Prof. Gyampo, but as a Christian and a Catholic for that matter, I will only plead with him to repent and pray for the forgiveness of his sins, and make amends with Christ.
If Governor Addison is making losses that cannot compare with the social decadence Prof. Gyampo has introduced into society through the immoral acts he was found to have been engaging in with vulnerable female students. Corruption sprouts from such acts.
Prof. Godfred Bopkin: Here is another lecturer who is insisting that the BoG governor and his two deputies should resign for overly exposing the Central Bank to government. As a lecturer in the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), he should be able to tell us the mandated role of Central Banks to governments. The Central Bank is the government’s bank and all employers including the governor are mandated to obey some code of conduct.
So, whenever government needs money to resolve issues, it has to go to the Central Bank. In case that such a demand will hurt the country’s financial situation, the governor and his team will be in a deep discussion with the government.
Naturally what would come out will benefit the country, but here again, there is this thing called, all things being equal. Which means, decisions taken at such meetings may be the best, but situations can change, as they mostly do, during the implementation period and the desired results may not be achieved; it could be higher (profit) or lower (loss).
That is why, in project appraisals there is something called in-the-worse-case-scenario. When the worse case happens, it will not be due to corruption or mismanagement, but due to unexpected changes.
If Prof Bopkin does not know this, then I am afraid, I will only say a prayer for his students.
Prof John Gatsi, Dean of the University Cape Coast Business School, would not demand the resignation of Governor Addison, but he was not happy that he called the protestors, hooligans. He added that what the governor should rather be doing is to offer answers to Ghanaians on the current situation in the country, regarding the economy and the Central Bank.
But has he forgotten that Governor Addison came out to explain what was happening? Did the NDC use the opportunity to invite the Governor to Parliament to explain things further? Unfortunately, the NDC resolved that it must occupy BoG, whether the Ghana cedi came a par with the dollar, the demonstration must go on. Perhaps, Prof. Gatsi could suggest a better way to describe the protesters.
All said, it will be wrong for people to think that Governor Addison and his deputies will willingly want Ghana to sink. They are under the government and must listen to instructions from the minister and president. And professional as they are they will suggest better ways to resolve our financial situation.
Sadly, some learned professors in Ghana’s premier university, who should know better, are joining in the pursuit of an alleged thief, even as one of them is the worse thief.
Hon Daniel Dugan
