The Management of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, has inaugurated a six-member KNUST Foundation Management Board. The inauguration which took place at the Amonoo Neizer Conference Centre on July 7, 2020, aimed at entrusting the Management Board, the mandate to raise the needed revenue for the infrastructural development of the University.
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso, in his opening remarks said the every country’s development is anchored on the quality of research conducted by its universities. However, in most universities in Africa, research works are funded by foreign donor agencies, whose interests are often quite different from their respective countries developmental agenda.
Professor Obiri-Danso, therefore, hoped that the team would reach out to people both locally and internationally to raise enough funds to aid the University’s developmental agenda.
The Chairman of the Board, Dr. Joseph Albert Quarm, Member of Parliament (MP) for Manso Nkwanta, in his address, said that as a leading Science and Technology University in Ghana and West Africa, there is a need to provide a conducive environment for teaching, learning and research geared towards the improvement of the socio-economic conditions of Ghanaians and by extension those in the sub-region. He, therefore, emphasised the need to raise sufficient funds to enable the University to pursue this mandate. Dr. Joseph Albert Quarm, on behalf of the board pledged to work assiduously for the immediate realisation of this vision.
The Board is chaired by Dr. Joseph Albert Quam with Mr. Alex N.K Quaynor, Mr. Benson Oduro, Mr. Tony Danklu, Mr. Charles Nsiah and Mr. Anthony Adjapong as members.
