Lecturers of the two leading universities in Ghana, the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), are demanding that the government sack Professor Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai, the Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), and his deputy.

The lecturers, in two separate statements, listed the reasons why Professor Jinapor and his deputy, Professor Augustine Ocloo, can no longer hold office.

The statement by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) UCC branch accused the GTEC leadership of destabilising public universities in the country with its actions.

“UTAG-UCC hereby demands the immediate resignation or removal of the Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Professor Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai, and the Deputy Director-General of GTEC, Professor Augustine Ocloo.

“This demand is grounded in repeated conduct that has promoted arbitrariness, undermined due process, destabilised public universities, and entrenched coercive regulatory practices inconsistent with lawful standards of public administration and university autonomy. UTAG-UCC considers their continued stay in office incompatible with restoring trust, stability, and legality in the governance of Ghana’s tertiary education sector,” part of the statement read.

The lecturers went on to list some of the actions they described as arbitrary acts by GTEC under the watch of Professor Jinapor, including a “directive requiring the UCC Vice-Chancellor to step aside on retirement-age grounds”; the “imposition of sweeping institutional sanctions on September 22, 2025, including suspension of accreditation processes, salary subventions, GETFund support, book and research allowances, post-retirement contracts, recruitment clearance, and other related approvals”; and “reputational sanctioning, including treatment of UCC as ‘non-existent’ on GTEC’s portal during the sanctions period”.

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The statement by UTAG KNUST accused Professor Jinapor and his deputy of using GTEC to fight their personal battles, adding that the commission was not performing its mandate under the watch of the two men.

“The Commission has now become a tool for personal vindictiveness and, instead of ensuring that the requisite norms espoused by the Commission are improved, the Director-General and his deputy continue to preside over its deterioration without any effort to improve it.

“The Commission has failed in its core mandate to ensure that quality education reaches the Ghanaian student with the requisite lecturers and facilities at the various public university campuses. This is not the situation at hand. A cursory visit to some of the laboratories and lecture theatres clearly shows that they are in dire need of renovation, retooling, and expansion,” it said.

Read the statements by UCC, KNUST UTAG below:

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