The members of the new Governing Council of the KAAF University after their induction
A fast-growing private university in Ghana, KAAF University, has inducted a 14-member governing council into office to provide strategic direction for the university.
The newly inaugurated council, which is the fifth since the establishment of the university, has a four-year mandate to govern the institution with professor K B Omane Antwi as the chairman.
During the inauguration, the chancellor and founder of the university, Michael Aidoo charged the council to govern with foresight, transparency and courage.
This, he explained, would ensure that the university remained committed to maintaining quality academic output to guarantee maximum student success and institutional sustainability.
The chancellor revealed that the university’s enviable reputation from a modest beginning, was anchored on quality and relevance of its programmes and innovations.
Aidoo mentioned that the university remained committed to maintaining its mission to become a well recognised global institution for providing quality training in the areas of technology, engineering and social sciences.
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin in a speech read on his behalf by his Executive Secretary, Prof Damasus Tuurosong, tasked the council to build symbiotic relationship that would empower all stakeholders.
This relationship, he said, “are essential for the relevance and sustainability of the university’s endeavours.
“Our universities must seek knowledge for the sake of truth, pursue truth for the sake of wisdom and attain wisdom for the sake of humanity. Otherwise, we risk producing intellectual fraudsters, academic armed robbers and professional thieves.”
The chairman of the new governing council, Prof K B Omane Antwi accepted the challenge and praised the previous council for their foresight and relentless efforts, which ensured that the university received a charter.
He expressed optimism that the new council would build on the achievements of the previous councils in order to propel the university to the height it aspired to reach and become a household name in providing quality education.
Speaking to the media, Prof Omane Antwi noted that despite the university’s strides and gains over the years, inadequate infrastructure, particularly, scarce hostel facilities for students, remained a challenge.
Prof Antwi, who is into his third time as the chairman of the university’s governing council, therefore, called on the government to urgently consider factoring private universities into its broader educational policies and support them to provide adequate infrastructure to accommodate the ever-increasing population of the school.
Other members of the council are Michael Aidoo, Prof Herbert Kwabla Dei, Prof Yaw Adubofoour Tuffour, Dr Frank Kwaku Lartey, Theresa Adusei Peasah Aidoo, Tawiah Akyea and Apostle Enoch Osafo.
The rest are Nana Abor Atta II, Samuel K Boakye, Afia Serwaa Essandoh, Sekyere Lee Frimpong, Frimpong Okyere and Eric Kwabena Adjei Boadu.
As part of the inauguration of the fifth governing council, a new building of the school in honour of Martin Mensah, first chairman of the university’s governing council and an eatery centre were also unveiled.
