Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, has condemned the violent action exhibited by students of Katanga Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on campus on Monday, October 22, 2018 against the school authorities.
The students were protesting against a decision by the Vice Chancellor Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso and the authorities to turn the all-male Katanga Hall into a mixed hall with females.
They 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.
Kweku Baako, speaking on Peace FM's Kokrokoo, expressed disgust over the destruction that characterized the protest stating emphatically "they were needless and they were mindless".
According to him, he doesn't endorse violent actions and therefore cannot throw his weight behind the students for vandalizing properties.
Though admitting that he supports the students in principle that their concerns need to be addressed, he would rather have had them use appropriate channels to register their displeasure with the decisions by the University authorities against them.
"...they ought to be condemned outright… I can’t support the kind of violence they perpetrated. It doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve done it before and I was dismissed showing that that thing was wrong. We have to be very honest with this thing and very direct (in our condemnation)," he told host Kwami Sefa Kayi.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Please there is more to this issue than just the conversion of halls. It wasn't intended to be a voilent demonstration. Please do well to get the right information and dont just write what you hear thereby misinforming others. Thanks
Then excuse my language 'your mind also don't make sense' Uncle Kweku. From a fan
Kweku Baako speaking like stwupid illiterate, all these political hypocrite and conspiracy must stop! What happened was as a result of Akufo Addo leadership style which is old school.
These students must be sanctioned haba this behavior must be condemned by all well meaning Ghanaians.go and see where some of those students live with their parents haba.Nsem Huniano kwa you have the right to demonstrate but not not violently pls bill them to pay for the cost of breakages.Dont pamper them Revolution now.Close down the school,Let the VC go he’s not correct n get the academic work going.
Most of us were students demonstrating against authorities during our hay days, what lessons did we learn from those activities? Our children now enter the tertiaries with empty heads not knowing anything due to political gimmicks. If I had a ward amongst the demonstrators that would have been his/her last time in school/campus. They must be condemned totally because they are coming after studies to live in boys compound but in a mixed societies.
Yes Kweku is right. The students are stzuupiid
What the students did was a ***barred word***. I was in my 3rd at Independence Hall when students at Lower Bridge were moved to accommodate female students. Things from time to time.
THE STUDENTS ARE NOT MATURED AT ALL,THEY BEHAVED LIKE SHS STUDENTS.
Kwaku BAAKO you are wrong 100% because it was not because it was because of the security team brought on the exhibiting brutalities against the students and treating like SHS students on Tertiary campus . All christian all night programs cancelled . All all night praying at PAA JOE STADIUM CANCELLED . When a security man is punishing and another who is just passing would be accosted and added to be punished . SRC HALL REPRESENTATIVE ARE BEING STRIPPED OF POWERS AND PRIVILEGES. ALL their accounts have been put under the DEAN OF STUDENT . THEY WANT TO BREAK THE RANK OF THE STUDENTS LEADERSHIPS
ON POINT KWEKU,ID THOSE RING LEADERS INVOLVED SACK/SURCHARGE AND THE UNI SHOULD NOT BE REOPENED IN A HURRY UNTIL EVERY DIME WITH REGARDS TO DAMAGES IS RECOVERED.LET THE RICH KIDS PARENTS FLY THEIR WARDS OUT AND LEAVE THE FOLLOW - FOLLOW....