Student Leader Calls for Calm

The Coordinating Secretary for the Ghana National Union of Polytechnics Students (GNUPS), Mr. Moses Adabogo, has called on student of the Koforidua Polytechnic to remain calm in the face of the dissolution of the local executives of the Students Representative Council (SRC).

Mr. Adabogo made the call after a meeting organised by the GNUPS to resolve the impasse between the general assembly (students) and the SRC executives at the institute on May 5.

Briefing the press after the meeting, he said, the house resolved that the state of emergency imposed on the institution by the administration still holds and by GNUPS Constitution, the administration will assume full responsibility for students affairs on the campus. Adabogo stated that the report of the GNUPS findings will be submitted to the institute's management shortly.

Some of the students the Chronicle spoke to denied any alleged corrupt practices on the part of the local executives of the SRC. The charges were that the SRC executives had illegally purchased a bus at a cost of ?34.3 million on behalf of students without the consent of students.

They also reportedly went ahead to purchase tyres at a cost of ?1.4 million to put on the bus. The students claimed that the value for the rejected bus by accredited valuer could only amount to about ?10 million.

They further claimed that the executives lied that the SRC hostel management owned the owner amount of ?13 million whiles the available records showed a different figure. With these allegations not substantiated by the executives, the students want them to be removed from office as SRC executives.

The dissolved executives admitted committing certain mistakes but hoped that compromise stance with the aggrieved students would help to restore law and order in the school.