Under pressure! There are questions about Vice President Amissah-Arthur's masters' degree.
Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Wednesday November 28, 2012
Vice
President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur appeared confused yesterday about the exact
date he completed his Masters’ Degree at the University of Ghana.
On a
couple of platforms including the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Vice
Presidential Debate held in Takoradi on November 6, Mr Amissah-Arthur could not
state emphatically when he obtained his Masters’ and could only say he got
scholarship to do post graduate work.
At the
Vetting Committee of Parliament where he was selected as Vice President, the
former Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) presented a Curriculum Vitae (CV)
that indicated that he had his Master’s in 1976.
The
pro National Democratic Congress (NDC) newspapers in their bid to defend the
Vice President further muddied the waters by claiming that he completed his
Masters’ degree in 1986.
Records
show that from 1970 to 1981 his name is not on the list of students who
completed their post graduate studies.
Apparently
when Mr. Amissah-Arthur sought to set the records straight yesterday in a radio
interview, he rather left more doubt about his Masters’ Degree.
“I was one of the four students who were
granted University of Ghana Scholarship to do postgraduate studies after my Bachelors’
Degree in Economics.”
According
to the Vice President, when he was finishing the first thesis, there was nobody
to mark it for him so he had to write another one for marking.
“I finished the thesis in 1979 and then I was
offered a job as a lecturer in the Department when the degree was awarded. The
degree was awarded, I suspect or I believe, early in 1980 so anybody who is
looking at the 1980 pass list in June will not see my name there because I
would have been notified of the degree much earlier in January of 1980.”
He said “The problem that I have is that this was not a foreign university degree. It was a University of Ghana degree which was being offered and appointed in the University of Ghana. The Legon professors knew the work that I had done so there was no problem at all about a fake degree or whatever it is they are bringing in.”
“If somebody is going to the end of an academic year and looking at the pass list and saying that your name is not there, he is looking at the wrong list. He should go to the University and they will tell him that some of these postgraduate degrees were awarded before the final exam degrees were awarded.”
He said “because I knew I had done good work and it was the same university I didn’t even collect it. That certificate must be lying in the academic registry. Now that you people ask I am going to try to recover it”.
He said “The problem that I have is that this was not a foreign university degree. It was a University of Ghana degree which was being offered and appointed in the University of Ghana. The Legon professors knew the work that I had done so there was no problem at all about a fake degree or whatever it is they are bringing in.”
“If somebody is going to the end of an academic year and looking at the pass list and saying that your name is not there, he is looking at the wrong list. He should go to the University and they will tell him that some of these postgraduate degrees were awarded before the final exam degrees were awarded.”
He said “because I knew I had done good work and it was the same university I didn’t even collect it. That certificate must be lying in the academic registry. Now that you people ask I am going to try to recover it”.
Per
his explanation, it was clear he did not have the certificate at hand saying “I
haven’t thought it necessary to get my certificate. I am in the Brong Ahafo
Region and when I come back I will go for it. They are lying in the academic
registry” of the University of Ghana.
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