The polytechnic, which is in the process of being re-branded as a Technical University, will be  known as the Hilla Limann Polytechnic, after Parliament’s approval of the proposal.

The late President hails from Gwolu in the Upper West Region.

[contextly_sidebar id=”tbF54f8eiF1jxcb9voe7ECBSvMouhsif”]The President, who made this known at the 20th anniversary celebration in remembrance of Dr. Hilla Limann at the Accra International Conference Centre, said the decision was taken after the school’s governing Council made the recommendation.

The President also pointed out that, the new name will reflect after the school is converted into a technical university.

“The governing Council of Wa Polytechnic in the Upper West Region, in its meeting on 18th January unanimously proposed to the dynamic Minister for Education that the institution should be renamed after Dr. Hilla Limann. The Minister has sought my view on this, and I have indicated to him my happy agreement to this proposal. Once the parliamentary process has been completed, the Wa polytechnic will henceforth be called the Hilla Limann Polytechnic. The name will remain with the conversion of the polytechnic into a technical university,” said the President.

UMaT renamed George Grant University of Mines and Technology

This comes days after the President similarly renamed the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), after the first President of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), George Grant.

The Tarkwa-based tertiary institution was renamed on Friday, January 12, 2018, at a special congregation held at the school to install former President John Kufuor as its Chancellor.

About Dr. Limann

•1941 – 1945: Lawra Confederacy Native Authority School (UIW)

•1946 – 1949: Government Middle School, Tamale (NIR) 1952 – 1955: District Councillor, Tlumu District Council (U/W)

•1954: Lost Parliamentary Election as an Independent Candidate

•1957 – 1960: London School of Economics (Political Science)

•1960 – 1962: Sorbonne University, France (Diploma in French)

•1962 – 1965: University of Paris, (Ph.D. Political Science & Constitutional Law)

•1962 – 1964: University of London (BA Hons) History

•1965 – 1968: Head, Europe Desk, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

•1967: Member Constitutional Commission

•1968 – 1971: Head of Chancery/Official Secretary Ghana Mission, Lome, Togo.

•1971 – 1975: Counsellor, Ghana’s Permanent Mission, Geneva, Switzerland

•1975 (June): Returned to Ghana as Head, Europe, the Americans Southeast Asia Desk. When the ban on politics was lifted in 1979, the Nkrumaists grouped under the Peoples National Party (PNP). The most popular figure and the one most had tipped to lead them to elections was Alhaji Imoro Egala. Egala was however disqualified by SMC Two from running for political office. Egala nominated Limann to lead the Party.

•Although seen by many as a novice in politics, Limann, perhaps, shocked many by beating the more “popular” Victor Owusu of the Popular Front Party (PFP) in the run-off the 1979 elections.

•Limann polled 62 per cent of the votes as against 38 per cent by Owusu. In the Parliamentary election the PNP won 71 seats against 42 by the PFP, 13 by the United National Convention, 10 by the Action Congress Party, three by the Social Democratic Front and one by an Independent candidate.

•1979 (September 24): Sworn-in as President of Ghana’s Third Republic. One of Limann’s first acts was to replenish food stock, which had been depleted by the AFRC’s three-month rule. His government also launched the Gold Endowment Fund as a means of getting investors to Ghana.

•1981 (31 December): Overthrown by Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, leader of the AFRC who had handed over power to him about two and-a-half years earlier. Limann lived a private life and although he tried to re-enter politics in 1992, he failed in his bid to win the presidential elections of that year as the candidate of the People’s National Convention. His last effort in politics was to try and unite the fractured Nkrumaists front and was co-chairman of the Unity Talks aimed at bringing all Nkrumaists under one-fold.

•1998 (23 January): Died of natural causes.

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By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The Tarkwa-based tertiary institution was renamed on Friday, January 12, 2018 at a special congregation held at the school to install former President John Kufuor as its Chancellor.

Kufuor, who commissioned the school back in August 2005, will be its first Chancellor.

President Nana Addo, who announced the renaming of the university, said: “It is only fitting that this great modest man who can lay a legitimate claim of being the father of modern Ghanaian nationalist should be properly honoured by a grateful posterity by us who are heirs of the freedom he so violently fought for especially by the citizens of this great Western Region.”

“I appreciate the special moment this will be for me, a descendant of all the myriad of persons who assembled at Saltpond under his president , the lost United Gold Coast Convention UGCC on that fateful Saturday 4th August 1947 when the power of Ghanaian freedom and independence was nominated to be the president who will have the privilege to assent to this decision,” he added.

Chairman of the University’s Council, Dr. Stephen S. Yirenkyi, in his address pleaded with the President Akufo-Addo to allocate funds to the school for the completion of legacy projects,  incompletion is impeding teaching and learning.

“I humbly request that the President commits adequate funds for the expansion of this University for the completion the uncompleted projects which are fast deteriorating,” he said.

While calling on the government and the University Staff to support Kufuor govern the school, Dr. Yirenkyi noted that the new Chancellor had an enormous task to enable the institution “continue to stand tall.”

“Today the University is seeing a new phase. The Chancellor has an enormous responsibility to make this University continue to stand tall and maintain its positions as the best public-funded University in Ghana. I am also optimistic that he will be given the needed support by the President and his government, Captains of the mining and the allied industries and rank and file of the university to make his work as the chancellor a pleasant one,” he said.

Originally known as the Tarkwa Technical Institute in 1952 when it was first established, the school became a fully fledged University in November 2004 by an Act of Parliament (Act 677).

About George Grant 

George Alfred Grant, popularly known as Paa Grant was a merchant and politician.

As a political activist, he was a founder and the first president of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) in 1947.

Grant was educated at Wesleyan School in Cape Coast and through private tuition given by Joseph D. Abraham, a wealthy merchant friend of his father’s.

Grant was subsequently employed in the timber trade, first at Axim and then for five years in the Ivory Coast.

In 1896, he established his own firm, George Grant and Company.He prospered as a timber merchant, with a flourishing export business, at a time when the trade was dominated by European companies.

In 1926 he was appointed to the Legislative Council, representing Sekondi. Grant was also a member of the Aborigines’ Rights Protection Society and was instrumental in many development projects including introducing street lighting and pipe-borne water to Sekondi and Axim.

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By: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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