President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given his blessing for the Wa Polytechnic to be named after Ghana's former-President Dr Hilla Limann

The polytechnic which is yet to be convert to a Technical University, will be  known as the Hilla Limann Polytechnic, after Parliament’s approval of the proposal.

According President Akuffo Addo,speaking at the 20th anniversary celebration in remembrance of Dr. Hilla Limann at the Accra International Conference said, the decision was taken after the school’s governing Council made the recommendation.

“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,"Nana Addo said

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."

The late Limann, who the President of Ghana from 24 September 1979 to 31 December 1981,  hails from Gwolu in the Upper West Region.

Hilla completed his basic school education at the Government Middle School, Tamale, in 1949. Between 1957 and 1960, he studied Political Science at the London School of Economics. He subsequently completed a Diploma in French at the Sorbonne University, France. He also obtained a BA (Hons) degree in History at the University of London and a Ph.D in Political Science and Constitutional Law at the University of Paris.

The former president died in 23 January 1998 and his remembrance celebration was dubbed: ‘The Life of a Scholar, Diplomat and Statesman’.

By Fiifi Abdul Malik/ghanaguardian.com