The wildfire has wreaked chaos at the abandoned University associated with Cape Coast (UCC) satellite television campus located at Jumako in the Eastern Region. It really is unclear what caused the particular fire at the project web site but residents say the particular ravaging fire caused substantial damaged to the project. Based on some residents who talked to this portal after the unlucky incident few days ago, the particular satellite campus was granted to a contractor at a amount of over GH₵ 14 mil and work was advancing smoothly. They alleged how the university led by the previous Vice Chancellor, Prof. Frederick Ampiah Ghartey strangely departed from the project without factors given to the residents. The particular University was to build the particular three-storey regional study center for continuing education students on Jumapo, near Koforidua, within the New Juaben Municipality. The particular project, according to our resources which was expected to be designed in 30 months, would’ve incorporated 13 lecture halls, 3 laboratories, a library plus reading centre, an ICT centre and 10 workplaces, as well as a lift to ensure impairment friendliness. The angry inhabitants, said the chief of the region, Nana Kwame Oppong-Owusu 3 was not happy about the growth and is now threatening in order to reclaim the land pertaining to farming purposes if absolutely nothing was done immediately regarding abandoned the project. Someone said, he had already called to the Education Minister to ensure the empty project was completed, because it would bring a lot of financial activities to the community yet that appears to have dropped on deaf ears therefore his threat to claim back the land. “We had been expecting the new Governing Authorities of the University Chaired simply by Prof. Obeng Mireku whom doubles as the President associated with Wisconsin International University University, Ghana, to use his huge experience to ensure that the companies return to site and complete the particular abandoned projects but they furthermore appear to be unconcerned about the task. We thought that Prof. Mireku has the ability and skills to supply strategic direction and management at the highest level of administration and could therefore liaise with all the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong to complete the forgotten projects but that too appears not to happening, one of the occupants, Mr. Frank Adjei stated disappointedly. Recently, the chief plus residents of Zuarungu within the Bolga East District from the Upper East Region plus Upper West Region got equally asked the Ministry of Education to force the University of Shawl Coast (UCC) to complete the abandoned Satellite campuses within their respective regions or they will reclaim their lands pertaining to farming purposes. The inhabitants, in separate interviews, portrayed disappointment about the way the particular University had neglected the particular Satellite campus projects started by the former Vice Chancellor, Prof. Domwini Dabiri Kuupole’s administration since 2017. These people alleged that the projects had been awarded to various contractors plus works started smoothly underneath the former Vice Chancellor have the ability to been abandoned when Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah overtook the affairs of the university or college. Some of them have questioned why the immediate past Vice Chancellor, Prof Ampiah made a decision to abandon such praiseworthy tasks that the university started prior to he was appointed. Based on them, the issue of the departed from projects by the University within the past few years now, has been a reason for concern to them and therefore, it had been time for the Education Ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) to step in and ensure those projects were carried out to stop distance learning students through travelling from these regions in order to Cape Coast for academic reasons. The residents furthermore noted that completing those people projects will not only give distance education students their peace of mind yet will also provide jobs for that locals within those places. They accused the College of causing financial reduction to the state, for which those people responsible must be made to supply answers and explain precisely why the projects had been forgotten for the past five years. Whenever this portal visited the particular Zuarungu project site that was awarded to a contractor within 2015 at the cost of regarding GH₵ 13 million offers since been abandoned though it was 80 percent finish. The huge three-storey developing project which was almost in a completion level is now susceptible to rains and has become a living room for reptiles and over-grown weeds. A close look at it, demonstrated some portions of it decaying gradually away. According to the inhabitants, reasons as to why the task which brought them huge smiles and hopes of furthermore having a Satellite campus within their district have not been given for them and described the University’s action as unfair towards the people of the area as well as the Bolga East District in general. It will be recalled that the 2020 Auditor General’s (AG) review also revealed that the exact same University of Cape Coastline (UCC) has abandoned fourteen projects valued at GH¢78. 9million, funded from In house Generated Fund (IGF) – with most of them left for approximately eight years. The review said seven of the tasks, which were delayed and ruin in the bush and between your completion stages of 87-99 percent, had damaged air-conditioners, broken windows, rotten door-frames and other forms of severe damage. Further reviews disclosed which the University’s College of Range Education spent almost GH¢3million on hiring conference areas for training due to a 5 percent delay in finishing a designated training center – a training resort plus conference centre at Agona Nyakrom for the university. As the AG has indicated that will value for money was not achieved from your total amount of GH¢78. 9million spent on the projects, this blames the university’s directorate of physical development because of not ensuring the contractors labored on time to deliver the tasks. Some of the projects include building of the School of Farming Complex; a 3-storey task for the School of Graduate student Studies; Science Faculty Annex; School of Business creating; student union complex; the 1-storey student study framework for School of Healthcare Sciences; a classroom prevent, administration block and collection block, a laboratory plus an estate road – all for the School associated with Medical Sciences, and many other tasks outside the university campus. The particular AG strongly recommended that will management of the university ought to ensure early completion of the particular projects to save them through further deterioration. It also advised the university to investigate the reason for delays to enable it impose its rights under the building contract where applicable. Send out your news stories in order to [email protected] plus via WhatsApp on +233 202452509