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Aspiring NDC Communications Director, Fred Agbenyo has condemned KNUST Vice Chancellor, Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso and the authorities of the University for taking draconian decisions against the students.

Speaking on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' programme, Fred Agbenyo expressed disgust over Professor Obiri-Danso's refusal to heed advice, hence the action by students of Katanga Hall on the campus on Monday, October 22.

Fred Agbenyo explained that the University students are grown-ups and do not want decisions and policies to be imposed on them like school children.

He said if the Vice Chancellor had listened to the concerns of the students, the situation that occurred on the campus yesterday would have been avoided.

Mr. Agbenyo believed the attitude of the KNUST Vice Chancellor isn't peculiar to him alone, but other University Chancellors who are equally headstrong, forgetting that they're dealing with adults on campus.

Fred Agbenyo told sit-in host Nana Yaw Kesseh that the KNUST VC and authorities are turning the University into a boarding school.

He spoke against the decision to turn Katanga Hall into a mixed hall.

One other poor decision that Fred Agbenyo pointed out aside speaking against the imposition by Prof Obiri-Danso to transform the all-male Katanga Hall into a mixed hall, was the decision that no student should harbour a lady after 10 pm or else would have the University security officers to contend with.

To him, the VC and the University authorities have suddenly forgotten the freedom they enjoyed when they were equally students and are now imposing draconian rules on the students.

He asked "how does it concern the Vice Chancellor if a guy will have a lady visitor after 10 pm or even if they will both be together for the entire night?".

Citing himself as an example for meeting his wife on the campus of University of Ghana, Fred Agbenyo believed the decisions by the VC are unacceptable.

“I think that somebody must talk to the University authorities and they too must be humble enough to listen. It’s becoming just something. The way we’re running the University doesn’t augur well. At the University level, people should be independent minded to take decisions that will help them. The best you can do is to advise them and they’re not under any obligation to take the advice because they’re grown-ups. They have to define their lives,” he stated.