Residents of the Commonwealth Hall at the University of Ghana are protesting the removal of their Hall master and Senior Tutor.
The protesting students, clad in red attire amidst drumming, called for the reinstatement of their two masters.
This comes after the University’s Council decided to temporarily relieve the two masters of Commonwealth Hall of their duties following a clash that ensued between students of the hall and Mensah Sarbah Hall on the campus.
“These officers should, therefore, in the interim, be relieved of their duties while management works with the security services to investigate the clashes, and works towards finding lasting solutions to the tensions between students of the two halls”, the Council recommended in a statement.
The clashes reportedly started Friday night, August 5, 2022, and extended into the early hours of Saturday, August 6, between the two groups on the campus.
Police were deployed to the campus and restored calm, a car parked at the Sarbah Hall during the incident was reportedly set ablaze while a statue erected was also ransacked and taken away.
The Council after its considerations of the investigative committee report concluded that the two leaders of the Commonwealth Hall should be removed from their post to enable ongoing investigations to be carried out.
The statement said Commonwealth Hall should also be surcharged with the cost of damages to property in the vicinity of Mensah Sarbah Hall in the clash.
Meanwhile, the Junior Common Room(JCR) Presidents of Commonwealth and Mensah Sarbah Halls have also been referred to the Disciplinary Committee for Junior Members, for their actions and inactions leading to and after the riots.
Read the full statement below:
