Akufo-Addo to name UDS Navrongo campus after C.K. Tedam

President Nana Akufo-Addo has proposed naming the Navrongo campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS) after Clement Kubindiwo Tedam, a founding member of the ruling New Patriotic Party.

Akufo-Addo to name UDS Navrongo campus after C.K. Tedam

Delivering a tribute at the funeral ceremony of the late NPP stalwart held at Paga in the Upper East Region, president Akufo-Addo noted that it will be known as the C.K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences.

According to him, a Bill has been laid in parliament seeking to make the Navrongo campus an autonomous University.

And that once it is approved, the University will be named after C.K.Tedem.

“In the sitting of Parliament, a Bill seeking to create an autonomous University out of the Navrongo campus of the University of Development Studies will be laid…

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"Once the parliamentary processes are completed, it will be referred to as the C.K Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences,” he said.

President Akufo-Addo described the late C.K.Tedem as “a rock” for his strong leadership and commitment to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) despite facing a distressful era when certain anti-party elements launched attacks targeted at destroying the unity and sense of purpose of the party.

He said through the great leadership that the late C.K Tedam showed at the time, attempts to bring disunity and defocus the party failed.

“He played a valuable and unforgettable role in preserving the unity and stability of the party. C.K Tedam was a rock in that painful era of distress, when anti-party elements, occupying high positions in the party launched attacks against the unity and sense of purpose of the New Patriotic Party (NPP),” he said.

“With the strong leadership qualities and devote happily, they failed”.This and succeeding generations will always honour and treasure his memory”.

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C.K.Tedem entered the political scene in 1954 as a member of the legislative assembly and was elected into parliament as an independent candidate.

He later co-founded the Northern People’s Party (NPP) with Mumuni Bawumia, Naa Abeifaa Karbo, J.B Braimah, Tolon Naa Yakubu Tali, Adam Amandi, Imoro Salifu with Simon Diedong Dombo as the head of the party.

He became a member of the Gold Cost Legislative Assembly between 1954 and 1956 and again on the United Party (UP) later in 1956 to March, 6, 1957.

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