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General News of Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Source: 3news.com
2019-02-05
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The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) warned all students that it would no longer tolerate gross and badually offensive behavior, especially by students.
The Chancellor of the University, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, said that the obscene behaviors practiced in the name of traditions and culture are unjustifiable. Therefore, the authorities of the university will not engage in such acts.
"The obscene behavior of male students in the presence of female students in the name of culture and traditions can in no way be justified," said Asantehene at a special congregation for students in Master and PhD on weekends.
His comment comes as a result of the university's ban last year on the "moral" jamboree organized by the school's Katanga Hall, triggering protests and encouraging students to vandalize the premises of the school.
Friday night, considered a tradition at the University, would have been used by students to engage in vulgar and badually explicit acts.
A notice published by the University in October 2018 was as follows: "A notice is hereby given that all forms of" morals "in and around the University Hall are suspended with immediate effect. This decision was taken because of several recent negative problems with regard to the legal persons in the room ".
He warned that anyone who violated the directive would be given the necessary sanction and response.
But the wronged students of Unity and University Halls, who decided on October 19, 2018 to hold a vigil to protest this decision, were reportedly badaulted by university security, causing serious injury to some of the students. between them.
On October 21, 2018, among other decisions of the University, this case had led the student body to hold a peaceful protest on campus, but had become violent and had led to the destruction of property. 39; university.
The tension of the time forced the school authorities to send the students home. The board of directors subsequently dissolved the government, which set up an interim committee to, among other things, ensure the reopening of the school and establish the cause of the violence.
Asantehene, in an apparent reference to the University's "moral" tradition, said that any non-dynamic culture would die.
The events of October 22, Asantehene Otumfuo said, were paining him.
"I am sure there is no connection with the university that felt no shame in the aftermath of these events," he said, warning that, as long as he would remain chancellor, he would ensure the application of university rules are strictly adhered to.
He said: "Allow me to badure the academic community that, as long as I remain Chancellor, the law establishing the university and its statutes will always be supreme".
Otumfuo reminded the student population and all stakeholders that the universities were applying rules to make the academic space tolerable for all. With this in mind, it was necessary to respect the order and respect the rules in order to allow students to work freely without being intimidated.
"In the history of KNUST, whenever demonstrations took place, the students never turned around and destroyed their own property and those of the university staff," a- he observed.
Asantehene has called on all stakeholders to be tactful, diplomatic and engaged in all their commitments.
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