Ludwig Akpene Hlodze, NATIONAL YOUTH ORGANISER, narrates the history of TEIN: Hon. ET Mensah, the first ever National Youth Organiser of the NDC, conceived the idea of having an intellectual wing of the NDC to facilitate communication between young students and also serve as a vehicle of education between the elite, educated and the uneducated members of the party. He put a team together to do the proposal for the formation of this group and members of the team include, Professor Bani of the University of Ghana, Sly Akakpovi, Madam Frances Essiem, Nii Djambga Vandrpuije (now Deputy Minister of the Greater Accra Region), myself, Ludwig Akpene Hlodze, and two others. These were the people who sat down to do the proposal and handed it over to Enoch Teye Mensah, our first National Youth Organiser. He decided to call it THE TERTIARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS NETWORK (TEIN) of the NDC. That was the first of its kind. It started in 1993 but it was inaugurated officially at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology by His Excellency President Jerry John Rawlings in 1994. It was big TEIN rally that birthed TEIN in Kumasi. We started with just 3 institutions; KNUST, UCC and the University of Ghana, Legon. We then continued to add the University of Education, Winneba and the Kumasi campus. We then added the polytechnics and that was how it started expanding, at the time I was the deputy National Youth Organiser we had 64 TEIN institutions. Today, we have 124 TEIN institutions and still counting. That is the history of TEIN. The early TEIN Presidents and Vice Presidents in the first institutions were Hon. Inusah Fuseini, Frances Esseim (who is no longer with the NDC) and Kobby Woyome. Credit- #TeamLudwig #WorkingTogetherWithGreatMinds
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 10:22:44 +0000
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