THE EXECUTIVES of the University Students Association of Ghana (USAG) are very hot as the students are hunting them for three hundred and eighty thousand Ghana cedis they have not accounted for.
The association has 22 member universities and according to the student�s representative council president of university of education, Winneba, Abdul Ramah, each member paid GH�14,000.00 toward their congress which came on last month, but after the congress the executives have not been able to account for what actually they used that money for.
The University of Education Students Representative Council (SRC) President disclosed that the money was supposed to cater for all the expenses of the congress, but during the congress, the participants paid for even notepad that they used.
�Prior to the congress, we were made to understand that the money that we are paying will take care of all the expenses that will be incurred for the preparation of the congress, including the souvenirs, but when we went there we bought our own notepads�, he said.
According to Mr. Ramah, since USAG is under National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), they asked NUGS which is the mother of all the students� bodies to compel the USAG executives to render account to the students, but the NUGS executives failed to act on it.
�Because NUGS is the mother of USAG and other students unions we contacted the executives to let USAG render accounts to the SRC executives across the country but our appeal to NUGS fell on deaf ears,� he asserted.
Mr. Ramah is, therefore, calling on all the university students to stand and fight for their right to make sure that the right thing is done by the executives of all the students� bodies, because according to him they are allegedly misappropriating the student�s fund.
Mr. Ramah further hinted that because they have not accounted for that money and NUGS has also failed to act on it, he did not allow any student to attend the NUGS congress which started over the weekend and reiterated that until something is done about it, his school will never attend any program of NUGS or USAG.
All efforts to get USAG executives to comment on the issue proved futile.
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