Press Release
For Immediate Release
GCTU Faces 2024 Audit Evasion Amidst Massive Corruption, Dubious Promotions, and Questionable Expenditures – Vice Chancellor, Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, Must Step Aside
Accra, [22nd July 2025] – Ghana Communication Technology University (GCTU) has been excluded from the 2024 Audit list due to massive corruption and its persistent failure to respond to critical observations raised by the Auditor-General. This alarming development highlights a deepening crisis of governance, transparency, and accountability within the university.
The university’s audited financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2022 reported a surplus of GHC 22,055,940. However, this figure does not reflect the dire realities faced by students and staff. While the financial statements indicate a total income of over GHC 102 million – with government subvention almost doubling from GHC 31 million in 2021 to GHC 59 million in 2022 – students continue to study under severely inadequate classroom conditions with limited facilities and resources.
Compounding these concerns are revelations that the Vice Chancellor , Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa , receives a staggering rent allowance exceeding GHC 51,000 monthly, amounting to over GHC 612,000 annually. This is occurring in an environment where basic academic infrastructure remains underdeveloped, staff welfare is neglected, and there is minimal visible improvement in the university’s teaching and learning environment.
Additionally, there are credible reports of dubious promotions and questionable appointments under the current Vice Chancellor’s leadership, further eroding staff morale, institutional credibility, and public trust.
Violation of Statutes and Court Rulings
The Vice Chancellor is currently serving his third term in office after a highly controversial reappointment process that violated the university’s governing statute. Furthermore, he has a series of cases against him in court, with some rulings delivered against him for failure to follow due process in the administration and management of the university. These legal defeats underscore systemic breaches of governance protocols and a disregard for institutional procedures.
The university’s expenditure profile in 2022 alone exceeded GHC 80 million, a 52.8% increase from 2021, yet these funds are not translating into tangible improvements for students or staff. Failure to address Auditor-General recommendations raises serious questions about potential concealment of financial irregularities and systemic abuse of public funds.
Urgent Call to Action
The situation at GCTU requires immediate intervention:
Comprehensive Forensic Audit: To establish the true state of finances, investigate mismanagement, and ensure accountability for public resources.
Audit of Promotions and Appointments: To investigate all promotions and appointments made under the Vice Chancellor to ensure compliance with due process, merit, and institutional standards.
Governance Reforms: Strengthening institutional oversight structures to enforce transparency, ethical leadership, and prudent financial management.
Infrastructure Development: Prioritising expenditure towards building adequate classroom and laboratory facilities to improve educational outcomes and restore public trust.
Immediate Step Aside: The Vice Chancellor, Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, must be made to step aside to allow for unfettered investigations into these serious allegations of financial mismanagement, dubious promotions, questionable expenditure, and statutory violations.
Independent Investigations: Into all reported scandals, including excessive rent allowances, misuse of government subventions, and systemic corruption.
Appeal to Leadership
We call on the Minister for Education to take decisive action to protect the integrity of Ghana’s public tertiary education system. We further appeal to His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama (JM) to intervene to ensure that the original vision for GCTU as a centre of excellence in communication and technology education is not lost to corruption, abuse of office, statutory violations, and failed leadership.
Failure to address these urgent issues risks further eroding public confidence in GCTU, undermining its sustainability as a public tertiary education institution, and denying students the quality education they deserve.
Please harmer on the condition of the classrooms and the labs. Im a level hundred student, regular and taking evening lectures. Im currently suffering from malaria plus plus and according to the doctor, I have more than 2000 pathogens in my brain and that’s deadly. I have been admitted currently and hoping to be discharged before exams week. I couldn’t even partake of class projects and other assignments because of my condition. I have blackouts sometimes.
I am completed the school for 2 years now but couldn’t graduate due to lectural failure to give me my resu
With this English composition, how can you graduate, menua?
Hnmmm I have Regretted studying my master, poor management if we complain then they tag your class as bad.
God will punish most of the Lecturers I swear, one called Dr Brown, n many others.
Things aren’t looking good in GT
Funny people, they don’t care about anyone even their own students(black mentality)
I would never recommend this institution to anyone
Every time I speak critically about GCTU, my colleagues ask me if it is really that bad. The situation there involves corruption and mismanagement within the administration. I can confidently say that the level of corruption among both students and staff is concerning. I am glad there has been a release addressing this issue, as it is extremely serious.
Despite being a technology school, GCTU fails to demonstrate any technological advancements. The Learning Management System (LMS) is poorly implemented and barely used. There are significant problems with results and many others that I won’t detail here. The future of this country is at stake.
There is a pressing need for a serious investigation into other public technical universities, as this has long been overdue.
I would never recommend this institution to anyone
The most wicked, self absorbed asshole lecturer on that campus is Edward Boahen. I would run him over if it wasn’t illegal.
Everything is a big mess in GCTU- so called leading Information Technology University in West Africa, my foot!!! It’s very disheartening,there’s so many problems students face right down to “Faulty Sockets”all over campus,to plug phones and laptops is even a problem for a Tech-Oriented University!!Such bad administration who do not care about the academic excellence of their students or problems we face.Sit Up GCTU! sit up Ghana Education Serivce(GES)!!!
Every time I speak critically about GCTU, my colleagues ask me if it is really that bad. The situation there involves corruption and mismanagement within the administration. I can confidently say that the level of corruption among both students and staff is concerning. I am glad there has been a release addressing this issue, as it is extremely serious.
Despite being a technology school, GCTU fails to demonstrate any technological advancements. The Learning Management System (LMS) is poorly implemented and barely used. There are significant problems with results and many others that I won’t detail here. The future of this country is at stake.
There is a pressing need for a serious investigation into other public technical universities, as this has long been overdue.
The best lecturer in GCTU Lempogo Forgor a very good man
What most people are saying about GCTU is actually bad. I think is because of their behaviour that’s why, if u learn hard u will get all your results buh if u dont work hard u dont get urs. So those saying bad stuffs are thos who normally skip call and they have either I or X as their grades and be blaming the lectures.
There is rampant corruption in our school, and the management seems indifferent to the students’ well-being. As a student, I’ve personally experienced issues with my results, which I’ve been trying to resolve for nearly three years. Meanwhile, the Student Representative Council (SRC) is dealing with its own set of problems.
One of the most pressing concerns we students face is the exorbitant tuition fees. Despite our pleas, the management refuses to reduce the fees. To add insult to injury, the receipts still reflect the fees for Level 100, even though some of us are already in Level 300.”