General News of Saturday, 13 April 2019Source: Myjoyonline.comPublic Universities Bill will solve no problem - Kofi Bentil, Apaak tell gov'tKofi Bentil, Vice President of Policy think tank, IMANI AfricaThe Public Universities Bill has again been challenged, this time, by Vice President of IMANI Africa and Builsa South MP, who intimate that the Bill is needless as it solves no problem. On its part, government said “The purpose of the Public Universities Bill is to provide the procedure for the establishment of Public Universities, principles of management of Public universities, the legal status of Public universities, the procedure for financing Public universities and administration and supervision of the activities of Public universities and related matters.”But Builsa South Member of Parliament (MP) Clement Apaak wants the bill “shelved. It is his view that the current system of administering Ghana’s public universities has not posed any challenge or problem for which a bill is required to cure same. Kofi Bentil 22The Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, agrees. I am looking for the problem but I still cannot find it,” Mr. Bentil said of the new Bill.

Source: GhanaWeb April 13, 2019 14:26 UTC