The management of the various universities and other tertiary institutions across the country should liaise with the Ghana Police Service in order to completely deal with threats of violence on their campuses, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, has urged.
His concern follows a clash on the University of Ghana campus on Saturday between students of the Commonwealth and Mensah Sarbah halls of residence during the university’s matriculation exercise last week.
The clash was triggered when a student of Sarbah Hall was allegedly slapped by a student of the Commonwealth Hall for claiming that his hall was superior to the latter. According to the eyewitness, news about the slap did not go down well with students of Sarbah Hall, who, he claimed, retaliated by attacking some residents of Commonwealth Hall.
In the process, a Toyota Corolla parked in front of Sarbah Hall was set ablaze. It took the intervention of personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service to put out the flames.
Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM on Thursday October 13, in connection with threats of violence ahead of the December 7 elections, Supt Arthur, acknowledged that there was security in place on campuses but noted that the institutions did not have the security resources to effectively deal with violence, hence the need to involve the police in such situations.
“It is good the campuses have their internal security but they can also fall on the police when matters of this nature arise because the internal security will not have the resources to deal effectively with the issue,” he said.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
