From toilet attendant to Vice Chancellor: Meet the man who wants to build Ghana’s MIT

So for the next four years, this is how we want to build and to brand the university for the world to know that we are world-class, and to rub shoulders with every other university.

So right from year one, I was with him, going to his house, talking to him every weekend, and making sure I was always around him.

His grass-to-grace story- starting as caretaker of a public latrine in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital, to becoming one of Ghana’s most sought-after mining engineers- is what sets him apart, and it is based on this record that he plans to turn around UMAT, the university after his heart, into a world-class engineering centre of excellence.