James Kwabena Bomfeh has lambasted authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for their adamant position on the transformation of University Hall (Katanga hall) into a mixed one.
The Director of Elections for the Convention People's Party (CPP) wants the University authorities to stop treating the students as kids, stressing that such attitude will only inflame passions.
According to him, University students are no more children and so the authorities should adopt a better approach to address the concerns of the agitated students.
Students at Katanga Hall of the KNUST, on Monday, October 22, 2018, embarked on a violent demonstration against the University authorities.
Their action followed the arrest of the 11 students of the University Hall (Katanga Hall) who were arrested Friday night for engaging in illegal ‘morale’ activities (illegal assembly and violent behaviour) which included drumming during a hall week celebration.
The Students' Representative Council (SRC) of the KNUSTSRC Executive Council in a statement titled: ACTION NOW, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, implored students to abandon the lecture halls today (Monday, October 22, 2018) for the demonstration against police brutality of students
The students thronged the streets on campus in their numbers, clad in red and amidst the protest, vandalized several properties including the office and car of the Vice Chancellor, Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso.
They overturned cars and smashed louvre blades at the administration block of the school.
The students are also protesting against a decision by the Vice Chancellor and the authorities to turn the all-male Katanga hall into a mixed hall with females.
The campus of KNUST has been relatively rowdy following the conversion of some all-male halls into mixed ones.
Speaking to host Kwami Sefa Kayi, James Kwabena Bomfeh popularly called Kabila wondered why he University authorities would dare make such a move.
He explained that Katanga hall was made an male-dominated hall for a reason, and so expressed disagreement with the decision by the Vice Chancellor to turn it into a mixed hall.
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He advised the authorities to give ears to the students saying "we're humans and we’re reactive beings. If you suppress a person to an extent and this attitude that it’s children that are in the University, our University administrators must rise above it. No one is a child anymore".
Meanwhile, military and police personnel have been deployed to restore order on the campus after some students destroyed at least 20 vehicles and other university property during a protest.
The 20 vehicles were mainly private vehicles belonging to the staff of the school and were destroyed at the main administration block of the school.
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They are not kids/children. I understand. So we should not have treated them with kid-gloves. Since you believe the rampaging youth are not kids, maybe our security services needed to get that into their skull and descended heavily on them for the loss of property and vandalism. Law and order should have prevailed. Adults who do these damages are breaking the law and must be arrested, prosecuted and jailed. They should have used the requisite force to prevent these non-think.ing adults who caused these damages from accomplishing that. Would that have been sufficient treatment for adults for you? You see how your adherence to some ***barred word*** tradition is causing you to think? Wise up! If your 'adult' children did this, how would you treat them as adults? Stand back and watch them burn all you have built to the ground?
SOMETIMES ONE WONDER HOW SOME POLITICIAN THINK OR WHAT THEY TAKE INSPIRATION FROM FOR SOME OF THEIR COMMENTS. ON AVERAGE HOW MANY OF THEM ARE PARENTS AND FENDING FOR THEMSELVES. OVER 90% OF THOSE STUDENTS ARE KIDS AND NEEDS DIRECTION OKAY MR POLITICIAN.MAY I KNOW WHETHER YOU ARE HAPPY ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON. WAS UNITY HALL OR WHATEVER HALL BUILT WITH MONIES FROM THESE STUDENTS WHO ARE PRESENTLY OCCUPYING THE HOUSE, WHAT LOCUS DO THEY HAVE TO SAY WE DO NOT WANT THE HOUSE TO BE CONVERTED?THESE KIDS ARE BECOMING UNTAMED LIKE BUSY LION. WHAT IS ALL ABOUT? THE UNIVERSITY IS AUTONOMOUS AND I SUGGEST THEY CRACK THE WHIP.LOOK THIS IS ALSO ANOTHER FORM OF STUDENTS BODY CAUSING FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE STATE AND THEY MUST BE PROSECUTED AND JAILED BECAUSE MY TAX IS IN THERE. NO PARENTS WOULD SEND HIS OR HER CHILD TO SCHOOL FOR SUCH AN UNTAMED BEHAVIOUR.
FOR THAT KABILLA NON-STARTER THESE PICTURES IS HIS DAFT MIND IS WHAT HIS SO CALLED ADULT STUDENTS SHOULD BE DOING. NO WONDER HE IS STILL GRAPPLING WITH LIFE WITHOUT ANY AIM.
oh.kabila so after all the readings you can't conderm this ***barred word*** things.We are all past students.aba.pls read from 2000 admission letters to fresh students and notices.abide by the rules The school is not for you but for the state.period.
WHO IS THIS INFANT SPEWING THIS GARBAGE?? MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE POLICE THOSE CAPTURED ON VIDEO SACK/SURCHARGE THEM. DON'T BE IN A HURRY TO REOPEN THE UNIVERSITY UNTIL EVERY DIME IS RECOVERED AND THE SCHOOL IS FIXED.
what we're missing as a nation is that time has changed and what used to be university life needs modifications. now some students are below 15 yrs and largely below 20 yrs. I think we need to bring in more control measures to shape their behavior. for instance a child coming from say sunyani around 15 yrs as university student staying in a hostel alone, is not the best; that child still needs parental control on campus and I think universities must be allowed to offer that parental control to such students.
KABILA, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? IF THE STUDENTS ARE NOT CHILDREN, THEN THEY SHOULD BEHAVE AS ADULTS. THESE SO CALLED KAT STUDENTS ARE NOTORIOUS. YOU ARE A STUDENT IN KNUST AND IN KATANGA AND SO WHAT? LET THEM GRADUATE AND FACE THE JOB MARKET. WE HAVE TOLERATED THESE NON***barred word*** FOR A LONG TIME, THESE THINGS MUST STOP!
DISCIPLINE HAS BEEN THROWN OVERBOARD IN OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND WE ARE STILL TOLERATING THESE BEHAVIORS. THOSE ARRESTED MUST BE PROSECUTED - PERIOD.
Kabila, I am a fellow. we always do things at the extreme. these students should wise up. people who are caught of vandalism should be made to pay all the damages. the university is public university and run with the tax payers money. can you do this in england, germany or any western country. one thing i realized during my time at KAT is that most of these guys who do those ***barred word*** things mostly not from asante region. they live in accra, volta, north etc and come down to destroy the beauty and peacefulness in the campus because we the guys who were living in kumasi know that when you mess up, your parents will get to know so always you try to not go to that extreme. we come out of the university and can not even produce a machine to pound fufu. shame unto ghana graduate students. this foolishness must stop.
This guy needs his head to be examined.Whaaat students go on demonstrations and vandalism property n you say what?I don’t know why some people like this guy get access to microphones on radio,Pls close down the school at once.Number 2 let these punk headed students bear the cost walahi.Crack the whip and make examples of some.Suspensions orstrong warnings.Mo ye Gyi I fo) paaa.
They are not kids/children. I understand. So we should not have treated them with kid-gloves. Since you believe the rampaging youth are not kids, maybe our security services needed to get that into their skull and descended heavily on them for the loss of property and vandalism. Law and order should have prevailed. Adults who do these damages are breaking the law and must be arrested, prosecuted and jailed. They should have used the requisite force to prevent these non-think.ing adults who caused these damages from accomplishing that. Would that have been sufficient treatment for adults for you? You see how your adherence to some ***barred word*** tradition is causing you to think? Wise up! If your 'adult' children did this, how would you treat them as adults? Stand back and watch them burn all you have built to the ground?
SOMETIMES ONE WONDER HOW SOME POLITICIAN THINK OR WHAT THEY TAKE INSPIRATION FROM FOR SOME OF THEIR COMMENTS. ON AVERAGE HOW MANY OF THEM ARE PARENTS AND FENDING FOR THEMSELVES. OVER 90% OF THOSE STUDENTS ARE KIDS AND NEEDS DIRECTION OKAY MR POLITICIAN.MAY I KNOW WHETHER YOU ARE HAPPY ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON. WAS UNITY HALL OR WHATEVER HALL BUILT WITH MONIES FROM THESE STUDENTS WHO ARE PRESENTLY OCCUPYING THE HOUSE, WHAT LOCUS DO THEY HAVE TO SAY WE DO NOT WANT THE HOUSE TO BE CONVERTED?THESE KIDS ARE BECOMING UNTAMED LIKE BUSY LION. WHAT IS ALL ABOUT? THE UNIVERSITY IS AUTONOMOUS AND I SUGGEST THEY CRACK THE WHIP.LOOK THIS IS ALSO ANOTHER FORM OF STUDENTS BODY CAUSING FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE STATE AND THEY MUST BE PROSECUTED AND JAILED BECAUSE MY TAX IS IN THERE. NO PARENTS WOULD SEND HIS OR HER CHILD TO SCHOOL FOR SUCH AN UNTAMED BEHAVIOUR.
FOR THAT KABILLA NON-STARTER THESE PICTURES IS HIS DAFT MIND IS WHAT HIS SO CALLED ADULT STUDENTS SHOULD BE DOING. NO WONDER HE IS STILL GRAPPLING WITH LIFE WITHOUT ANY AIM.
oh.kabila so after all the readings you can't conderm this ***barred word*** things.We are all past students.aba.pls read from 2000 admission letters to fresh students and notices.abide by the rules The school is not for you but for the state.period.
WHO IS THIS INFANT SPEWING THIS GARBAGE?? MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE POLICE THOSE CAPTURED ON VIDEO SACK/SURCHARGE THEM. DON'T BE IN A HURRY TO REOPEN THE UNIVERSITY UNTIL EVERY DIME IS RECOVERED AND THE SCHOOL IS FIXED.
what we're missing as a nation is that time has changed and what used to be university life needs modifications. now some students are below 15 yrs and largely below 20 yrs. I think we need to bring in more control measures to shape their behavior. for instance a child coming from say sunyani around 15 yrs as university student staying in a hostel alone, is not the best; that child still needs parental control on campus and I think universities must be allowed to offer that parental control to such students.
KABILA, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? IF THE STUDENTS ARE NOT CHILDREN, THEN THEY SHOULD BEHAVE AS ADULTS. THESE SO CALLED KAT STUDENTS ARE NOTORIOUS. YOU ARE A STUDENT IN KNUST AND IN KATANGA AND SO WHAT? LET THEM GRADUATE AND FACE THE JOB MARKET. WE HAVE TOLERATED THESE NON***barred word*** FOR A LONG TIME, THESE THINGS MUST STOP! DISCIPLINE HAS BEEN THROWN OVERBOARD IN OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND WE ARE STILL TOLERATING THESE BEHAVIORS. THOSE ARRESTED MUST BE PROSECUTED - PERIOD.
Kabila, I am a fellow. we always do things at the extreme. these students should wise up. people who are caught of vandalism should be made to pay all the damages. the university is public university and run with the tax payers money. can you do this in england, germany or any western country. one thing i realized during my time at KAT is that most of these guys who do those ***barred word*** things mostly not from asante region. they live in accra, volta, north etc and come down to destroy the beauty and peacefulness in the campus because we the guys who were living in kumasi know that when you mess up, your parents will get to know so always you try to not go to that extreme. we come out of the university and can not even produce a machine to pound fufu. shame unto ghana graduate students. this foolishness must stop.
This guy needs his head to be examined.Whaaat students go on demonstrations and vandalism property n you say what?I don’t know why some people like this guy get access to microphones on radio,Pls close down the school at once.Number 2 let these punk headed students bear the cost walahi.Crack the whip and make examples of some.Suspensions orstrong warnings.Mo ye Gyi I fo) paaa.
Am surprised you are saying this.