Parliament Approves $ 90 Million Loan for UESD Bunso Campus Project | Policy

A loan of $ 90 million for the construction of a satellite campus of the University of the Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD) in Bunso, in the region of Lanzhou. East, has been approved by Parliament. The Bank of Korea will be used for the construction of a modern university campus headquartered in Somanya.

The University will offer programs in Environmental Studies, Climate Change, Urban Development, Water Resources Development, Energy Sustainability, Energy Economics and Agriculture

It shall to have four undergraduate schools – the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, the School of Sustainable Development, the School of Agricultural and Agricultural Entrepreneurship and the School of Education. built environment.

There will also be a graduate school, consisting of three research centers consisting of the Center for Agra Entrepreneurship, the Center for Agriculture and Biotechnology, and the Center for Sustainable Resource Development.

amount of money to use for the construction of the facility. They believe that the cost is too high.

They were puzzled that a satellite campus cost twice as much money as the one used for building the main campus and wanted to overthrow it.

Tongu North MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa also said that the government discriminated against the people of Donkorkrom, where the previous government planned to build the satellite campus.

But in Parliament Tuesday, as reported by Joseph Opoku Gakpo of Joy News, the loan was approved

The president, Mike Ocquaye, was forced to make a countdown after the minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, challenged a vote the approval of the report of the Finance Committee on the loan.

After the workforce, however, 125 MPs voted in favor of loan approval while 75 voted against him

The loan was therefore approved.

The minority is still dissatisfied. The deputy head of the minority, James Klutse Avedzi, believes that Donkorkrom people are discriminated against because it is a stronghold of the NDC.

He said that he would propose that the decision be challenged in court: "We oppose this, but they used their numbers and that is the beauty of democracy."

He said the government did not have the right to move from Donkorkrom to Bunso because this can only be decided by a board of directors that still needs to be formed at the university.

"… So who makes the decision We do not have the board in place, so who makes that decision.This is one of the reasons we say we do not can not vote for this agreement.

"We do not understand why they should move the Donkorkrom campus to Bunso.The people of Donkorkorm are not Ghanaians, they do not deserve to have a college campus so that Ghanaians can study there, "Avedzi asked.

But the chairman of the Education Committee, Siaka Stevens, said the government had done nothing wrong. As far as it is concerned, the university is supposed to have three campuses and that is exactly what the government does

so the location is not a problem, d. as much as the three campuses will still be located in the East region.

He told Joseph that the minority could not accuse the government of not constituting a council when it did not do it the same years after the establishment of the university.

million. Stevens said the government was not flouting any laws. [Act 898] remains intact, "describing the behavior of the minority as" unfortunate. "He said Donkorkrom will get their campus" on time but for now, the approved loan is in the name of Bunso. "

The decision of the minority to pursue the case in court was also upheld by the majority.