Legon students demand accounts of user fees

Students of the University of Ghana, Legon, are demanding that the authorities give them an audited account of both the academic and residential facilities user fees, as well as such other fees collected from them from 1999 to date.

The students say that although they have been paying exorbitant amounts, they are still over crowded in their halls while the facilities there are in deplorable conditions.


Mr Benjamin Ampoma-Boaten, president of the Students Representative Council, (SRC) said at a press conference on Friday that until the authorities had accounted for the user fees the students would be unable to pay any fees.

"As if our plight on campus is not enough, the Shylocks are proposing a new increment of Facilities User Fee from 224,000 to ?350,000. "We reject totally, the proposed academic and residential facility user fees for the 2001/2002 academic year and therefore call for their complete review," he said.