KNUST to crack whip on lawless students

STUDENTS OF the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi who caused mayhem in the school on Thursday evening would not go scot-free.

The University authorities have made their intentions clear to team up with the security agencies and expose the key suspects so as to crack the whip on them to serve as deterrent to others.

Activities in the top university came to an abrupt standstill after irate-looking students of the Kantanga and Unity Halls on campus clashed violently last Thursday evening.

The violent clashes, reportedly, resulted in the windscreen of a number of vehicles being smashed by huge stones that the two feuding student groups were pelting at each other.

Some of the students, including even innocent ones, also sustained serious body injuries and they were quickly conveyed to the nearby medical institutions for immediate treatment.

According to reports, the annual Hall Week celebrations in the university sparked the dangerous clashes, which adversely affected academic work and also threatened the security of students.

It took the intervention of armed police personnel who were sent to the KNUST campus before the two feuding parties could be separated for law and order to be restored in the school.

The NEW PUBLISHER has gathered that the KNUST management wants to prevent situations whereby students take the law into their hands and destroy properties in the school.

In this regard, the paper has learnt that the KNUST management has handed a video of the clashes, captured by Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV), to the police to support their investigations.

The university management hopes that the video footage would enable the police to figure out the troublemakers in the school so they could be severely punished accordingly.