UG students stranded due to new housing policy
Some students of the University of Ghana (UG), have been left on campus following the university’s new housing policy.
On Monday, January 16, 2023, some of the affected students from the Commonwealth hall numbering about 40 were turned away by the security officers of the school to prevent them from entering their rooms.
The new directive to reassign students from Commonwealth and Mensah Sarbah halls to other halls comes after many clashes were recorded between the respective halls in the past.
Talk to Citi News, some of the stranded students appealed to the UG management to listen to their pleas, as the other arranged accommodation was too high for them.
A 300 level student, Fred Oppong said, “I have no relatives in Accra, so if I am not allowed to enter the room, the best I can do is to stay until noon. I assumed that the management would do a court injunction, but the situation is different from the situation mentioned”.
“As we speak, school is in session and I have to miss class today, just because I don’t have a place to sleep. I don’t have a place to sleep, my stuff is upstairs. I don’t have a place to lay my head. I believe the management should listen to us, we ask him to go back to the hall. At least, he should give us a place to sleep. We have no place to sleep. He should help us,” a final year student, Divine Kwaku Kyere ruled.
The background
According to the new housing policy, continuing students must occupy halls other than Commonwealth Hall and Mensah Sarbah to make way for 100 level and graduate students.
In the case of the Mensah Sarbah hall, only male students will go out.
On January 12, 2023, there was tight security in the campus, when the students returned to the campus.
Some students who continue from the commonwealth hall are stranded because of this policy.
Some students from the Commonwealth Hall obtained an interlocutory order on January 6, 2023, preventing the UG management from implementing housing policy decisions but some students accused the university management of turning a blind eye to the court order.
Asked by the host from Witness NewsUmaru Sanda, on January 12, 2023, that UG ignored the interlocutory order, Senior Assistant Registrar at UG, Madam Pascaline Songsore indicated, “no, we have repeatedly said in the announcement released on January 11, 2023, that the residents of the hall have been sent in the hall before the injunction came”.
“We have made it clear in the notification that we will not fight the order. The issuance of halls for 100 level students has been stopped until the injunction expires. Our lawyers are working hard, so nothing will happen [injunction] at this stage. The rooms were occupied before the order came”.
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