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.
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