By Our Monitoring Desk
Personnel of the Ghana Police Service, yesterday, subjected students of the University of Ghana particularly residents of the only all-male hall-Commonwealth Hall-to severe brutalities, arresting about eighteen (18) in the process.
They stranded students, numbering over five hundred had trooped the hall with their bag-and-baggage to enquire why they could still not access their rooms, after they secured an injunction against the implementation of the new policy revoking the residential status of continuing students of both Mensah Sarbah and Commonwealth Halls.
It was this enquiry that the police, who had cordoned-off the hall started pushing them back, molesting and arresting some of them in the process, while the others run helter-skelter.
But, in an interview with Citi News, later in the afternoon, a member of the Academic Communication Team of the university, Professor Ransford Gyampo described the attitude of the students as lawless and urged them to use the appropriate channels to meet their grievances since the matter is still in court.
“It is this kind of lawlessness that vindicates the position that position the university has taken. There is a ban on processions on campus…some groups feel they don’t like the decision that the University has taken, and so they have taken the university to court.
“Before the substance of the matter is heard, they ask for an injunction. Merely asking for an injunction or even if a court grants an injunction, does not preclude those who have been injuncted from asking for a stay of execution and appealing against the decision. So, it is lawless for someone to say that the court has granted an injuncted, so we are going to enforce the injunction ourselves.
Meanwhile, the Police say all 18 suspects in police custody would be put before the court to face justice. Security has since been deepened on the campus for academic activities to continue without any hindrance.
The police also assured that all other persons involved in the disturbances will be arrested and brought to face justice.
Stay tuned.
