The director of public affairs at the University of Ghana Elizier Ameyaw-Buronyah has admonished students of the university to use negotiation and dialogue in getting their grievances addressed.
At least 18 individuals have been picked up by the police on Tuesday (14 February 2023) for disturbances on the University of Ghana campus.
The students clashed with the police at the entrance of the Commonwealth Hall after they were prevented from occupying the hall following a directive from university officials.
The students said they have secured a court order to return to the hall. The university management said the new residential policy requires that continuing students are supposed to occupy other halls apart from the Commonwealth and Mensah Sarbah halls to make way for level 100 and graduate students.
Reacting to the development on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Thursday (16 February), Ameyaw-Buronyah said “management leaves its door open, so we expected them to bring their issues to us and negotiated for an intervention.”
“So many people are enjoying from management, so the students shouldn’t join a chaotic exercise. They should come to us.
“I don’t think that the student approached management in the right way. What they did was to riot; if they had come to negotiate, I don’t think any of this would have happened,” Ameyaw-Buronya said.
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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