Students and staff members of Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) have expressed worry over some development in the school which they deem bad and wish that appropriate steps are taken for rectification before the Institute loses its most cherished image.
The acting Rector of the Institute, Mr. Kweku Rockson is the person named to be masterminding the worrying developments, one of which is tackling critical decisions without recourse to the laid down procedures.
The Crystal Clear Lens newspaper had gathered that the acting Rector has hijacked the mandate of the school�s board in composing an interviewing panel during recruitment of staff members. Mr. Rockson is alleged to have in January this year ignored the Representatives of School of Communications, Legon, Public Services Commission, National Council for Tertiary Education on (NCTE) and GIA Board and hurriedly but singlehandedly interviewed Kofi Amponsah-Bediako, the former NPP government spokesman on social affairs and Lawrentia Agypong, wife of Kwabena Agyepong among other persons and hired them as permanent workers of the school.
Two sources, who held that the hurriedly arranged recruitment was a clear departure from the usual practices of hiring staff members at the inception of academic work and that the move was to cloud a motive, also say such interviews were supposed to be chaired by the representative of the Public Services Commission. Mr. Rockson, the paper also gathered, was the principal person behind the political group, Coalition of Floating Voters which meet regularly within the GIJ premises.
The Coalition of Floating Voters having Dziedzorm Segbefia, Student�s Representative Council (SRC), President of GIA and other students endorsed the defeated NPP 2008 presidential candidate, Nana Akufo Addo in the run-off. When contacted at the GIA premises, Mr. Rockson who constituted a four-man panel and turned an earlier agreed verification event into 35 minutes interrogation session for a reporter sent there finally, said due process was followed in the recruitments.
He said GIA is no longer under Ministry of Information but Ministry of Education and that those representatives on the interview panel were not necessary. Mr. Rockson also denied links with the political group, Coalition of Floating voters.
Ghana Palaver
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