The Wa Polytechnic will be named after Ghana’s former President in the Third Republic, Dr. Hilla Liman.
President Nana Akufo -Addo made the announcement at the 20th anniversary celebration in remembrance of Dr. Hilla Limann at the Accra International Conference Centre Tuesday.
The polytechnic is in the process of being upgraded to a Technical University subject to parliamentary approval.
“The governing Council of Wa Polytechnic in the Upper West Region, in its meeting on 18th January unanimously proposed to the dynamic Minister for Education that the institution should be renamed after Dr. Hilla Limann. The Minister has sought my view on this, and I have indicated to him my happy agreement to this proposal. Once the parliamentary process has been completed, the Wa polytechnic will henceforth be called the Hilla Limann Polytechnic. The name will remain with the conversion of the polytechnic into a technical university,” President Akufo Addo pointed out .
Hilla Limann was the President of Ghana from 24 September 1979 to 31 December 1981.
Limann, whose original last name was Babini, was born in the northern Ghanaian town of Gwolu in the Sissala West District of the Upper West Region to a poor family. He managed to gain an excellent education, and took up an academic career.
His government was overthrown by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) led by Chairman Jerry John Rawlings on 31st December, 1981
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