NAGRAT calls on Mahama to remove Deputy DG of GES Prof Smile
The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has called on President John Dramani Mahama to immediately remove Professor Smile Gavua Dzisi as the Deputy Director General of the Ghana Education Service.
As the first female to be appointed a Rector of a Polytechnic in Ghana and the first female to serve as chair of the Vice-Chancellors of Technical Universities of Ghana (VCTU Ghana), Prof. Smile Dzisi was the former Vice-Chancellor/Rector of Koforidua Technical University, Koforidua, Ghana.
She led the transition of the Polytechnic into a Technical University. She also served as President of Data Link Institute of Business and Technology, a private University College in Tema, Ghana.
Professor Smile Gavua Dzisi is a renowned academic with over twenty-five years of rich experience and expertise in university leadership, organizational re-engineering and gender advocacy.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; a Master of Public Administration degree from University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; and a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, where she also received an award for the most distinguished Ph.D. thesis.
Professor Dzisi also served on the Executive Board of the Association of Technical Universities and Polytechnics in Africa (ATUPA) as West Africa Coordinator of Women in Technical Education and Development (WITED).
However, at a news conference, the President of the Teacher Union, Angel Carbonu, indicated that there are better-qualified persons in the Public Service to take up the post than the newly appointed Deputy Director-General of the Service.
Mr Angel Carbonu said NAGRAT is ready to meet His Excellency John Dramani Mahama to discuss appointments into the Ghana Education Service, saying any failure on the part of the government may result in industrial disharmony.
“We want to request an audience with the President on these matters to forestall any upheaval on the labour space,” he demanded.
We call on the government to look within the Ghana Education Service to look within the Public Service and the Civil Service in appointing people to head the various established agencies,” Mr Angel Carbonu said.
He added that, “We also call for the removal of all political appointees who have not risen through the ranks, who have not participated in our services and replace them with men and women who have toiled, sacrificed, risen through the ranks and have proved themselves, to occupy these positions.”
In other news, the Executive Secretary of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association (CLOGSAG), Isaac Bampoe, who was present at the news conference, said, CLOGSAG will solidarize with NAGRAT if it declares the strike.
“We will be writing to the Minister of Jobs and Employment that we want to sit down and talk to the President, we know he is a listening President. We want to talk to him, what is happening now is the development of Ghana that is going to suffer,” he warned.
