The Vice-Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has assured that the government will soon rename the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) after its founder, Nana Opoku Ampomah. He gave this assurance during a courtesy call on the Chief of Amoafo, Nana Opoku Ampomah, as part of his tour of the Bekwai Constituency in the Ashanti Region.
On August 28, 2023, Joseph Kwaku Opoku-Ampomah, the man who founded what is now the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), celebrated his 95th birthday, fittingly marking a day of festivity to commemorate this significant milestone. Unfortunately, the one gift that would have been the icing on his birthday cake is still awaited: the promised renaming of the University after its founder, who is also the Paramount Chief of the Amoafo-Bekwai Traditional Area, in the Ashanti Region, with the stool name of Nana Opoku-Ampomah.
Five long years after that promise was made to the founder of the Institute of Professional Studies, as he initially named it and better known in its early years as the famous IPS, Nana Ampomah is still waiting for the renaming to be realized. The promise was announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo on April 25, 2018, when the President was the Guest of Honour at UPSA’s Fourth Special Congregation, during which the University conferred on Nana Opoku-Ampomah an honorary doctorate for his contribution to the development of education in the country.
According to NAPO, “the necessary constitutional and legal processes have been put in motion to effect the name change to ‘Opoku-Ampomah University of Professional Studies.’” He also assured that for Amansie East to derive the needed developments, the district will be divided.
From visible progress in infrastructure, and power stability to advancements in healthcare, alongside Dr. Bawumia’s bold initiatives for job creation and business growth, the people simply cannot wait for the Ghanaian future of renewed hope and prosperity. He appealed to them to “keep canvassing for Dr. Bawumia and our Parliamentary Candidate, Ralph Poku-Adusei in every place of human settlement. This is to ensure the widest of victory margins in December.”
