Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has said she left a lot of funds in the kitty of the Ministry of Education for her successor Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh and would have expected that ‘Napo’, as the current minister is called, would have been fair to mention that, too, to Ghanaians alongside his criticism of her tenure.
On 14 November 2017, Dr Prempeh said Prof Opoku-Agyemang was an “embarrassment” and a “disgrace” as Minister in the John Mahama administration because she left a huge debt at the ministry.
“Her four-year tenure under John Mahama was an embarrassment,” Dr Opoku Prempeh said at the time.
Dr Prempeh listed the debts as follows:
Feeding Grants for Colleges of Education – GHS36 million
Feeding Grants for Special Schools – GHS4.7 million
SHS Subsidy – GHS24 million
Progressively Free Senior High School debt – GHS33 million
Capitation Grant, GHS8 million
GETFund debt – GHS3.7 billion
“She doesn’t understand education”, Dr Opoku Prempeh insisted.
Asked on Accra-based Starr FM to respond to Dr Prempeh’s accusation, Prof Opoku-Agyemang said: “I’m not going to trade insults with anybody, no; we can sit as adults and talk but it’s not something I want to talk about.
She continued: “Let’s say I take over as vice chancellor from somebody, I don’t think I should go telling the whole world what it is, you continue; there are things you like and there are things … and you will also do things your successor will like or not like.
“There are also monies that were not touched, it would have been interesting to get both sides; you know the monies we got from the World Bank, we didn’t use all of it; monies we got through ADB for COTVET and so many … even the loan we were taking for the Eastern University, so, it is both sides and I just want to end it there but like descending into throwing mud at each other, no, that’s not what I want to do,” she added.
Source: classfmonline.com
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the woman has shown she is much sensible than empty headed "napo"
asd did u say infantile? They are absolutely clueless!! Did those guys even read and properly comprehend what was said? smh
Most of your comments against the former minister tells us how infantile your thoughts are. Its not every money that can be used for payment of debt. Some monies are for specific projects and cannot be touched. It does not go with the adage that when a stick ins lying down you will not allow a dog to bite you. If you do that the accountants and auditors will find fault with you
A real Ghanaian truism - Book sense ino be sense, home sense, na e be sense...who the cap fits. Even though cash be fungible, can you use loans from development banks anyhow? Oh yen man yi and she got vc too...
This woman is truly an embarrassment and incompetent as Education Minister..... You have money sitting with you and you have huge debts as well... What stops you from settling some of the debts with money at hand? You never told us how much money you left behind... Napo told us how much debt you have left behind.... You are purely incompetent.. you better s.h.u.t up!
Madam, please spare trying to dribble us with an awam answer. It doesn't make any sense at all that you have money sitting there somewhere, you refuse to use them when you have so much debt on your hands? If there was funds as you claim, how much was it and why was the funds sitting there? You had funds and schools could even afford to buy common chalk. Eei what is this...? Enough of these lies.
This is MATURED STATEMENT as compared to INFANTILE TALE by Napo. Never descend into the gutter with him. Kudos
Madam, you were just incompetent as a Minister, period. You even damaged your integrity further by signing that Muntie 3 petition to release thugs who had threatened to harm a fellow woman. You appeared to be more interested in maintaining your position as a minister, than maintaining your integrity. By the way, what else could you have done with the loans but leave them behind when your party was kicked out?
Madam Former Minister, are you by your statement accepting that you left huge arrears in the various programmes you were running? I think WB and the others are loans contracted by the government, but not by any prudent management skills you adopted to save money for the country. Unless you thought you could have squandered that money too. But politics is different from Vice-Chancellor job. You didn't do well as Minister of Education, period!