The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has asked university students to resort to dialogues and negotiations instead on engaging in acts of violence.
This comment by the President is in line with some acts of violence on some of the university campuses especially the University of Ghana (UG) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and technology (KNUST).
Speaking to the newly elected leaders of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) who paid a courtesy call on him at the Jubilee House in Accra, Akufo-Addo said the violence only results in the destruction of property.
The executives of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) had come to introduce themselves to the President and thank him for some of the pro-students policies implemented by his government.
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Akufo-Addo bemoaned how distressing it is to wake up or to hear that students’ activities which ought to be, normally, without violence end up in halls fighting each other and destroying properties.
“I am not quite sure who benefits from that. I can’t see that anybody benefits from that kind of behaviour…It’s distressing to wake up or to hear that students activities which ought to be, normally, without violence end up in halls fighting each other and destroying properties,” Akufo-Addo added.
Akufo-Addo seized the opportunity to ask the students in the various universities to call for dialogues where “everybody puts their card fully on the table”.
Ghana | Atinkonline.com | Vivian Adu
