Thugs besiege UPSA development project

Lawlessness laced with traces of tribal bigotry characterized the scene on the campus of UPSA where landguards, allegedly contracted by a certain Jato stormed the schools new development project site to stop the contractor from working.

The development project, which is expected to be completed in 16 months, involves a ten-floor multipurpose twin tower edifice and two new ten-storey hostel block facilities to cater for the overwhelming increase in number of student population in the University.

Subsequently, the foresight of the school which is attendant with the increased enrolment at the second-cycle level, is to equip the school to cater for the obvious influx of students who will be seeking tertiary education beginning next year.

However, work on the various sites had to stall following the intrusion and cessation of work by the said Jato and his cohorts - obviously operating at the behest and on the instructions of a higher authority about ownership of the land.

A case that really comes across as weak and unsound to say the least because of their premise that the land on which the government is operating on belongs to government.

UPSA started as a private institution but has long since been taken over by government.

Not long ago, they attained full-fledged University status and have been documented as one of the forward looking and better managed universities in the country. It is a state owned university.

The sod-cutting ceremony to herald the beginning of the projects was done by the Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh on behalf of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

The development has led to some educationist questioning that if a university lauded for its infrastructural and educational achievements within the short period of attaining full-fledged university status, cannot benefit from a legitimately procured government asset then who else stands the chance?

UPSA aside being a state-owned university holds the proper documents issued under the authority of the Land Title Registry so the faces behind this notoriety must be dealt with by the law to deter others from doing same in the near future.