The University of Professional Studies, Accra Student’s Parliament House has dismissed reports that their decision to petition for the impeachment of the SRC President, Mr. Peter MwinZumah was influenced by the SRC Vice President, the Speaker of the SRC General Assembly and Tertiary Education Institutional Network (TEIN).
“The house would like to state emphatically that the Speaker of the General Assembly and the Vice President did not and cannot influence the house to petition the judicial chamber for the removal of Mr. MwinZumah Peter from the highest office of the President of the Students Representative Council.” – A press statement copied Awake News has said
According to the statement, “The petition was necessitated by the wanton disregard of the tenets of the constitution on the part of the SRC President, Mr. MwinZumah Peter. The SRC President showed a clear disregard for the body and letter of the highest constitution of the Students Representative Council by being a party to a General Assembly meeting called and chaired by the Clerk of the General Assembly.”
“As a former member of the University of Professional Studies, Accra Students’ Parliament House, who served in the capacity as the majority leader of the seventh parliament and a firm believer in parliamentary rudiments and doctrines, the SRC President was expected to express his disapproval of such a meeting and call the Clerk to order but rather reneged on this duty and became an accessory to the ‘unconstitutional’ act on the part of the Clerk of the General Assembly of SRC as it has never been practiced in the history of Parliamentary proceedings and goes against the very spirit and letter of the SRC constitution which Mr. MwinZumah Peter swore to protect and defend.” – the statement added
It appears the SRC President of the UPSA is facing a leadership crisis, on November 13, 2019 a pro-NDC campus group, Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) at the University called a press conference where they accused him of neglecting the plights of students in the University.
“it has now become unequivocally true and empirically doubtless that the President has put himself on an auto-pilot reactionary mechanism, such that anytime students raised genuine concerns about challenge they face on campus, the President pays a “devil may care” attitude towards the plight of these vulnerable students” – TEIN General Secretary, Mr. Salvius Beni said during the press briefing.
Read the full statement:
PRESS RELEASE
This release is to put to bear the issues that led to the petition against the office of the president of the SRC and to also put to bed rumors that suggest that the petition put forward by the University of Professional Studies, Accra Parliament House was orchestrated by the Vice President of the Students Representative Council and the Speaker of the General Assembly. The house would like to state emphatically that the Speaker of the General Assembly and the Vice President did not and cannot influence the house to petition the judicial chamber for the removal of Mr. MwinZumah Peter from the highest office of the President of the Students Representative Council.
The petition was necessitated by the wanton disregard of the tenets of the constitution on the part of the SRC President, Mr. MwinZumah Peter. The SRC President showed clear disregard for the body and letter of the highest constitution of the Students Representative Council by being a party to a General Assembly meeting called and chaired by the Clerk of the General Assembly.
As a former member of the University of Professional Studies, Accra Students’ Parliament House, who served in the capacity as the majority leader of the seventh parliament and a firm believer in parliamentary rudiments and doctrines, the SRC President was expected to express his disapproval of such a meeting and call the Clerk to order but rather reneged on this duty and became an accessory to the ‘unconstitutional’ act on the part of the Clerk of the General Assembly of SRC as it has never been practiced in the history of Parliamentary proceedings and goes against the very spirit and letter of the SRC constitution which Mr. MwinZumah Peter swore to protect and defend. There is a saying in the Asante-twi parlance that says that ‘Opanin a Ꜿ tena hꜿ ma nkwadaa ℨwe nankam ℨnam no, sℨ yℨkan nankawefoꜿ a Ꜿ ka ho bi’ to wit ‘the elderly man who sits aloof for children to consume the meat of a python will be counted among python meat eaters.’
We would also want to debunk the rumors that the University of Professional Studies, Accra Students’ Parliament House is being influenced by the Tertiary Education Institutional Network (TEIN) as purported by present and past Student Leaders of this institution. We want to state categorically that the house is a non-partisan student body on campus and will not put its hard earned reputation into disrepute by being in bed with a political organization on campus to champion such a course. The house is an autonomous body and operates as such without any political coloration and will forever remain as such.
We will want to assure the entire students’ populace that we are committed to exercising our oversight duty over the Students Representative Council and ensure that the interest of our fellow professionals is best served.
Thank you.
By: Efo Korsi Senyo / awakenewsroom.com
