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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You are 100% right and I support your assertion. As much as the students might have some concerns which needs to be address, there was no need to carry out this unnecessary attacks. Let's be circumspect about what we are doing today because it will grow to haunt us tomorrow. Extremely provocative utterances from politicians is gravely polarizing this country and we must condemn them early to avoid future troubles. Yes, Prof. Obiri Danso is human and not Angel, but to create an impression as if he is a monster and his removal for your parochial interest will convert the school into seminary is a lie. Politicians should stop worrying students and concentrate on what they are mandated to do for the betterment of this country. Today, political parties decides who lead students in all tertiary and second cycle institutions. Everything in Ghana has political color. It is extremely difficult to live in Ghana without supporting a political party and succeed in doing business. I feel sad for this Country of ours.
Don’t say what you don’t know....you talk too much...try understand the students before you spew your t.rash