ABOUT FRIMPONG GILBERT ASSUMAN

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Frimpong Gilbert Assuman affectionately referred to as Kwasi Frimpong #SayItRight was born some two decades and few years ago in the Central Region town of Twifo Hemang to Min. Takyie Boafo and Deaconess Mary Quaison Boafo all of Akyem Oda. The first and only son of his parents, with three kid sisters, he began his basic school education at the Twifo Hemang Presby Primary until he moved to join his parents and the other sisters at Akyem Oda in the Eastern Region of Ghana in the early 2000s where he was enrolled at Akyem Oda St. Anthony JHS. He completed JHS in 2004 and continued to Apam Secondary School where he read Science as a program and completed in 2007.

Due to a strong innate passion to always speak for the people, he joined the Media in Ghana where he worked for Kumasi Based Angel 96.1MHz FM as the Eastern Regional Correspondent. While with Angel FM, he attended a number of capacity building workshops and seminars and also offered some short courses on Journalism until 2012 where he was admitted to the College of Languages (Ajumako) Campus of the University of Education, Winneba to read Bachelor of Arts Twi Education. This became apparent after his four year stay in the media and the passion to continue working in the media. While with Angel FM, he also became the Eastern Region Reporter for Accra based Choice 102.3MHz FM and www.ghananewsaid.com.

At the University of Education, Winneba – Ajumako Campus his desire to always speak for the people propelled him to become the only level 100 student to serve in Mr. Asuahene Emmanuel’s administration as the deputy Public Relation’s Officer of the Ajumako Hall JCRC at the time that the Ajumako Campus had no SRC and the JCRC executive doubled as SRC executive even though the Unified SRC President at the Winneba Campus of UEW appointed SRC coordinator to Ajumako Campus who closely worked hand-in-hand with the JCRC Executive.

Like a salt which cannot be missing in a food and a light which cannot be put under the table, he became one of the most critic of the SRC at Winneba and wrote the famous article “WHY UEW SRC IS AN ILLEGALITY WITHOUT AJUMAKO SRC?” An article which arguably started the debate for the ‘autonomy’ of the Ajumako Campus as far as students’ leadership is concerned. To complement his wish of always speaking for the people, he led the establishment of the Student Bar Association on the campus (You can read “The SBA at Ajumako, Then, Now and the Future”)
He also spearheaded the establishment of the Ajumako Campus branch of the Eastern Region Students’ Association (ERSA) and again together with the SRC council attorney started student parliament on the campus.

When the ‘autonomy’ was finally given to the Ajumako Campus, he became the first local NUGS President of the campus. As a local NUGS president, he built his work on three thematic areas.
·         Build the Capacity of Students on the Ajumako Campus
·         Put Ajumako Campus which ‘nobody’ seemed to know about in the lime light
·         Strengthen the democratic institutions on the campus.
His enormous achievements as a Local NUGS president of an infant campus like the Ajumako Campus are there for all to see and he believes that the good students of the Campus are and will continue to be the best judges of his administration.

He is a talented writer and has two books to his credit (yet to be published)
·         Mining Curse
·         Nipamp3hia Amanehunu -The woes of Nipamp3hia(Human hate poverty).
He has several articles to his credit which have been published on several online portals, Newspapers and Social Media. Popular among his write ups are, ‘A Slave in my house, the secret behind Ghana’s Poverty’: An article he wrote to pooh-pooh Ghana’s Mining and Minerals laws, ‘Babies Offspringing Babies’, ‘a written documentary on teenage pregnancy, the Politician and the ‘Ghanaian Child in the scorching Sun’, ‘After the chase, what’s next’ to mention a few.

He believes that most Ghanaians have a lot that needs to be said for them and will forever avail himself to speak for the voiceless in the society. He believes in saying whatever needs to be said right hence the name #SayItRight and to him, saying it right means, using the right wording to communicate to the minds and hearts of the right audience using the right media.

Due to his hard work, he has been nominated for a National Students' Awards under the categories;
·         Most Promising Male Student
·         Most Outstanding local NUGS President




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