UDS Wa Campus closes down
Abdul Salam Sule, Ghanadot

The Wa campus of the University of Development Studies, (UDS) has been closed down by the authorities of the school.

Students are therefore leaving the premises of the institution, following directives from the school authorities.

Reports indicate that the students are aggrieved and distressed as most of them are not resident in the region.

Ghanadot gathered that the stranded student population are petitioning the school authorities to rescind their decision as most of them will have no choice but to sleep in the streets for lack of accommodation.

According to the directive given by the University authorities, students have been instructed to vacate the campus by 1600 GMT on February 25, 2009 adding that post graduates students will not be affected by the directive.

There has therefore been an appreciable level of police presence on the campus, since the Executive Committee of the University for Development Studies (UDS) closed down the school on February 25, 2009.

Over 5,000 students representing half of the entire student population are reported to have been affected by the decision.

According to a letter dated February 24 2009, issued and signed by the Acting Registrar of the UDS, Mr. S. M. Kuu-ire, the decision was necessitated by the long standing “agitations, continued boycott of lectures by students in spite of the intervention by various stakeholders and the growing concern for security of students, lecturers and facilities”.

It will be recalled that the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the Wa campus has since November 2008 been demanding the removal of the Acting Vice Chancellor of the UDS, Professor Kaku Sagari Nokoe for suspending the Central SRC President, Naab Alphonse for some alleged misconduct.

The SRC currently have filed a suit against the Acting Vice Chancellor after he failed to revoke the suspension.

The Dean of Faculty, Reverend Professor Abraham Berinu however told reporters in Accra today that the university will continue to review the process and it would decide at the appropriate time what to do next for sanity to prevail.

Ghanadot