University Students react to alleged remarks by singer Mzbel

Tamale, Nov. 30, GNA - The University Students of Ghana (USAG) has expressed worry about unfriendly remarks reportedly made against its members by Mzbel, a female singer, who was manhandled in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) while she went there to perform.

A statement issued in Tamale on Wednesday and signed by USAG president Mr Samuel Kwadwo Frimpong, said Mzbel remarked on Peace FM, an Accra-based private radio station, that University students in the country were a bunch of "uncivilized and useless".

The statement said USAG condemned the action by students of KNUST and "for Mzbel to categorize all university students as uncivilized and useless to run down the integrity of all students was unfortunate." The statement said despite the fact that she was mishandled by a few group of students in one of the universities did not warrant the kind of description of the rest of universities students in the country. Mr Frimpong said it was not easy to gain admission to university and that students in the universities were intellectuals and needed to be accorded with the necessary respect.

"What others do to you and you don't want, don't do same to them", the statement said and called on Mzbel to retract her statements and render an unqualified apology to university students. It also urged her to change her mode of "provocative" dressing to functions to avoid further embarrassment to her.