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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.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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IT SAD THAT GHANAIANS ARE AFRAID TO CONDEMN THIS PRIMITIVEEEEE AND BARBARICCCC ACT OF KNUST STUDENTS. HISTORY TESTIFIES THAT DEMONSTRATORS WITH GENUINE CONCERNS DO NOT RESULT TO BRUTEEEE AND VIOLENCE TO ADDRESS THEIR GRIEVANCES. YES, PEEOPLE IN DEMOCRATIC DISPENSATION EMBARK ON DEMONSTRATION BUT NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SENSEELEESSSS AND VIOLENT LIKE KNUST STUDENT. SRC OF KNUST IS A FAILED LEADERSHIP AND MUST BE PUNISHED FOR SUCH UNNECESSARY DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. I AM EXPECTING NUGS TO COME OUT MATURES AND TO CONDEMN SUCH UNCIVILISEEDD BEHAVIOUR AND NOT TO CONDONE IT. WHAT LEGACY ARE WE LEAVING TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION. THE BEHAVIOUR OF KNUST STUDENT IS SO BAD THAT IT DOES NOT BEFIT SECONDARY OR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. I EXPECT CIVIL SOCIETY, RELIGIOUS BODIES, AND PROFESSIONAL BODIES TO CONDEMN THIS UNRULYYYY BEHAVIOUR OF KNUST STUDENT IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS IMMEDIATELY. MANY OF KNUST STUDENT HAD JOIN THE DEMONSTRATION BUT HAD NOT DESIRED TO BE DESTRUCTIVE AND SENSELESSS. I EXPECT THE RIGHTTTT MINDED STUDENT TO HELP ANY INVESTIGATION BODY TO BE SET UP TO FISH OUT THE PERPERTRATORS OF THE VIOLENCE TO BE PUNISHED. THE CRIME COMMITTED FOR DESTROYING PROPERTIES MUST BE PAID FOR BY THE STUDENT. IT IS SHAMEFUL TO GHANA FOR PRODUCING SUCH INDISCIPLINE BUNCH OF PEOPLE FOR THE FUTURE GENERATION. UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SHOULD BECOME THINKERS AND CREATIVE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND NOT BRUTEE. ALL SHOULD CONDEMN THIS SHAMEFUL ACTION.
I'm surprised that no one seems to understand what just happened. Those who are behind the demo are just a hand full. And they're not the ones who went to the UNI to learn, those students will be doing anything in their power to become waywardd, drug addictss gayyys and lesbianss. Just fish them out and get rid of them. The school can then move on smoothly. Over-entertainment is what has made Nana Addo and Mahama to be so lazzy the only way they increase revenue is more taxes on Ghanaians and borrowing cash and not borrowing machines to process cocoa and bauxite but take bribess and allow enemyy countries take whatever they want
If we're not careful our kids will end up like agbenyo!
I have these questions for Agbenyo. Are you a student of KNUST? Do you have any idea of the by-laws and regulations in the university? Don't comment on issues you have no idea about? Do you know processions/demonstrations are illegal on campus? Did you know also that the first years willingly accepted admission in writting to stay in the male hall turn mixed? Do you also know that the residential regulations forbid a visitor to be inside a hall of residence past 10pm? Did you also know that by writing and signing and submitting an acceptance letter and paying the AFUF and RFUF they especially the freshers accepted to abide by the regulations and by-laws? IF they felt the laws were not favorable why did they not go to Legon or UCC or UDS or UEW or even oxford or MIT or Makerere? No one begged them or forced them to go to tech. In all these the freshers had no idea they were being misled. Because as the case will be only freshers were provided admissions into the halls of residence. The question then will be when they signed their acceptance of the conditions and heartily paid for them what were they thinking? Agbenyo come again. These will not win you any political points. I firmly support the authorities and they should prosecute all who will be identified. If the kitchen is too hot for you, you get out ...simple
I have never been a fan of Agbenyo but this time he's spot on.These professors who cannot even control and discpline their own kids and have invented nothing to change the world, terrorise everybody including lecturers just because they have become VCs and think that after God they're next and thereafter there's nobody. Academic life is always synonymous with freedom and I find these draconian measures ***barred word*** if not insane.How dothese rules promote academic excellence, innovation and free-thinking. All respected universities worldwide have sororities and fraternities-just like the Vandals and Katangese and what have you, which play very useful roles beyond cramming knowledge from books,in shaping up students.These including social networking, academic support, career opportunities, acculturation and leadership development,among others. If the VC is an intelligent person he would've known some of these basic roles and instead of being a stiff-necked ***barred word***, he would've constructively engaged the students to help them reform any practice thought was anti-devlopmental but rather look at what he's done. No authority whatsoever should ever take others' civil liberties for granted because they have "power". Power is an illusion. He's damn lucky, if I were still a student, i wold've snucked up his Lodge in the night despite the curfew and burn him up!! This is just a symptom of things to come in the future as more Ghanaians get educated and understand their civil liberties and will be prepared to defend them at the peril of the lives.Politicians who abuse power and steal from the national coffers with impunity, be warned!!!Cause there's a natural mystic flowing thru the air.....don't ask me why....B. Marley.
Ecomini, try to be a little bit civil with your comments. Fred you are right. the students are not kids to be treated as such
These 1diots we call politicians have finished messing up our economy. They are now turning their attention on our universities. This is exactly the reason they sponsor vigilante groups to inflict mayhem on citizens with confidence. Those who want single se*x hostels should build one for them and let them inhabit. These f00**ls we call politicians can dare call a VC to resign over this but defend their unbridled fraudulent acts while in office. Pathetic bunch of thie**ves calling themselves leaders.