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Kwesi Pratt has expressed utter worry over the UTAG impasse resulting in University lecturers in the country laying down their working tools.

The lecturers have embarked on a strike, asking for better conditions of service before they resume work.

They remain adamant in their decision despite a strict directive by the National Labour Commission for them to return to work.

In order to resolve the conflict, the Minister of Education, Yaw Osei Adutwum, in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'' Monday morning, indicated a meeting with the teachers on Tuesday, 8th February, 2022, to address their concerns.

As the Ministry and the University lecturers persevere to come to a consensus, Kwesi Pratt, the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, is unhappy with the vacuum created in the Universities due to the strike action.

He pointed out to the repercussions among other problems that the strike is having on the students and their parents or guardians and the nation.

Citing a personal example of how his friend who resides in Bolgatanga has his child, who has gained admission into the University of Ghana, living in a hostel and paying his hostel fees along with giving him feeding fees although there are lecturers on campus, Mr. Pratt couldn't but to think about the mess created by this ongoing University lecturers' strike.

"What's going on in the Universities is not simply a dispute between government and lecturers. It is far more than that. It has many, many repercussions for all sectors of national life . . . It's a major social problem," he said during a panel discussion programme on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo''.

Mr. Pratt however called on government to resolve the deadlock and find better ways to address the teachers' conditions of service, so they resume work early.