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Nana Effah Appenteng, chair of the university board of directors (standing to the left) swearing the members of the committee.
Chancellor of the University of Science and Technology Kwame Nkrumah (KNUST), Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, on Thursday inaugurated a three-member committee to investigate a riot of students last October that led at the closing of the University.
The committee is chaired by Justice Rose Constance Owusu, retired judge of the Supreme Court. Ms. Ama Afo Blay, former Director General of the Ghana Education Service, and Mr. David Adu Osei, Regional Director of the National Investigations Bureau in Ashanti (BNI), along with Mr. Kofi Owusu, Clerk of the Regional Office of the Chiefs as as secretary.
The committee, which has no time limit, is mandated to investigate all the circumstances that led to the disturbances and to make recommendations to prevent this from happening again.
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University students railed on the insistence of the university board to convert the remaining rooms reserved for men, Katanga and Unity, into unibad rooms. The students also alleged systematic abuse by the university authorities. They destroyed public and private properties and clashed with security agents.
In the ensuing confusion, the council was dissolved, resulting in a bitter stalemate between the campus unions and the government.
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