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A leading member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region has been sacked from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for using fake examination results to gain admission. Abass-Adams Nurudeen, a second-year History and Political Science student was among 45 students who have been expelled by the university authorities for the offence. The deputy Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the KNUST branch of the Tertiary Education Institute Network (TEIN), a student wing of the NDC, was third on the dismissed students list, which was pasted on the main notice board at the university�s administration block early last week. A letter endorsed by Kobby Yebo-Ockrah, the university�s Registrar, which accompanied the dismissal list stated, �In accordance with the university�s regulation on admission, the under listed students have been sacked henceforth, from the university for seeking admission with fake examination results.� With the issuance of this statement from the authorities of the university, it means that the former deputy branch secretary of the ruling party at Abuakwa in the Atwima Nyabiagya Constituency of the Ashanti Region cannot return to the KNUST campus for the second semester. Having gone on first semester vacation on December 20, 2009, students of the premier Science and Technology University are required to report back on campus this week for the second semester academic work. Though the university authorities were yet to paste the list of dismissed students on notice boards of various faculties and halls of residence, news of the dismissed vociferous NDC activist who has been championing the cause of the ruling party on radio stations in Kumasi has spread on campus like wildfire. Indications are that the dismissal of the Unity Hall representative to the university�s Students� Representative Council (SRC) will definitely become a newsworthy issue for many weeks after all students report on campus.