{"id":361114,"date":"2017-10-11T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=361114"},"modified":"2017-10-11T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:58:08","slug":"bolga-lecturers-lock-out-nursing-college-principal-over-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/bolga-lecturers-lock-out-nursing-college-principal-over-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolga: Lecturers lock out nursing college principal over ‘corruption’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tutors of the Bolgatanga Nursing Training College in the Upper East Region, have locked up the office of the school’s principal, Bawa Awula, over allegations of abuse of office and misappropriation of funds.<\/p>\n
The tutors, who threatened to boycott lectures, are demanding that the principal steps aside to pave way for investigations into his conduct.<\/p>\n
The tutors, numbering about 18, took a unilateral decision to lock up the office of the principal, Bawa Awula, accusing him of violating the Procurement Act in the procurement of goods and services as well as neglecting the plight of both lecturers and students.<\/p>\n
A senior lecturer and convener of the lecturers, Mr. Edward Atiim, said “since the coming of our principal to Bolga Nursing Training College, he had indicated to us his vision, but it has been almost two years, but his vision has not materialized. First and foremost, he wanted to work from bottom-up, but we are not seeing that,\u00a0procurement is ongoing without a procurement committee or board, and he’s not even taking the procurement procedures into consideration”.<\/p>\n
“There are inadequate facilities in the school, yet we have been collecting development levy since 2008, and tutors allowances which are supposed to be paid are not being paid, and we think that these are reasonable enough for us(tutors) to be able to tolerate.”<\/p>\n