The student leadership front of the University of Professional Studies-Accra has been experiencing some turmoil and the most recent is the resignation of the Clerk of the Student Representative Council General Assembly, Mr. Gyau Baffour Memphis.
According to him, in the resignation letter sighted by Awake News, he is resigning “from the Leadership of General Assembly as the Clerk to pave way for the Speaker and his Deputy to administer and perpetuate their frivolous, untenable and diabolical intent in their stewardship and leadership which is contrary to my motive, principles and adherence towards liberalism.”
If readers can recall, the Student’s Parliament House in November this year 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 earlier said.
According to the said 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 practised 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 resignation letter of the Clerk:
THE PRESIDENT
UPSA SRC
25/12/2019
Dear Sir,
LETTER OF RESIGNATION
It is of firm belief and my utmost expression to tender in my RESIGNATION letter as the CLERK of UPSA SRC GENERAL ASSEMBLY because of reasons best known to myself.
I accepted the position of Clerkship to primarily serve in the best interests of the entire student body, help strengthen the Democratic and Patriotic Governance structure of the General Assembly but because of mishaps, poor attitudes and dictatorship, unpatriotic and egregious behavioural nature of the Speaker (Prince Gavi) and the Deputy Speaker (Simon Mede) which flaws, contradicts and places unhealthy embargoes on my contentions and clear intents to help strengthen the democratic principles of General Assembly.
I would like to tender in my resignation letter and recuse myself from the Leadership of General Assembly as the Clerk to pave way for the Speaker and his Deputy to administer and perpetuate their frivolous, untenable and diabolical intent in their stewardship and leadership which is contrary to my motive, principles and adherence towards liberalism.
Thanks to the student populace for all the support rallied behind me.
SIGNED
GYAU BAFFOUR MEMPHIS,
CLERK, GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Cc.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
JUDICIAL CHAMBER
By: Efo Korsi Senyo / awakenewsroom.com