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Credible information reaching The New Crusading GUIDE indicates that there may be rumpus today on the campus of St. Augustine’s College of Health Care at Tei Nkwanta, a village near Koforidua in the Eastern Region as the aggrieved students seek to reclaim their admission fees from the Proprietor Augustine Sextus Adutwum-Addo.

Following a publication last week Monday by this paper, all the students got to know that the Nursing school had no accreditation from any mandated institution in the country and so they set out to meet the Proprietor in order to ascertain their status but “Mr. Adutwum-Addo started shouting at us and claimed that he had accreditation from the NVTI and that it was his detractors who were at play”, some of the aggrieved students told this paper over the weekend.

Narrating how they got admitted to the school, one of the students said he heard of the school via Facebook, a social media platform and applied.

“The Proprietor called me to attend an interview at the Catholic Pastoral Centre near the All Nations University New Site, Koforidua”, he explained.

He added that he was later surprised to “find the school in this bush whereas he made us believe that the school was at where we had the interview. It is a clear deception and we are demanding our money and if possible with interest.”

It is instructive to note that when this reporter got in touch with ASP Stephen Akowuah, the Crime Officer at the Koforidua Regional Police last week, he stated emphatically that the Police could not on their volition close down the mushroom Nursing school.

It would be recalled that last week Monday, this paper published a story under the FATE OF 159 NURSING STUDENTS IN LIMBO @ TEI NKWANTA…As St. Augustines Nursing School Has No Accreditation where it stated that “The fate of about 150 students of the St. Augustine’s College of  Health Care at Tei Nkwanta, a village near Koforidua in the Eastern Region is in limbo as investigations carried out by The New Crusading GUIDE has revealed that the school has no accreditation from any mandated Ghanaian institution”.  

The school offers both Certificate and Diploma courses in health care and must be accredited by institutions such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana, National Accreditation Board and the National Vocational Training Institute(NVTI) before commencement of admissions and tuition but unfortunately, non of these institutions have accredited the school.

The unfortunate aspect of the story is that officials of the accrediting institutions say their hands are tied by the law and so they can not close down the mushroom school.

Lawrence Kwarteng-Ashia, Public Relations Director of the National Accreditation Board told this paper last Wednesday that “the law mandates us to publish names of accredited institutions but it does not give us the power to close schools without accreditation down”.

It is now clear that the fate of the students is in their hands. According to a document in possession of this paper from the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana, there are currently about 25 mushroom schools offering nursing courses without accreditation.

Please stay tuned as we delve deep into why Augustine Sextus Adutwum-Addo who is operating the mushroom nursing school was dismissed from J-Prompt Professional Institute when he tried pursuing a Physician Assistant course.