Properties destroyed at UEW estimated at GHC2.5m | General news

The board of directors of the University of Education, Winneba, said the estimated cost of the damage to the university after the violent protests on Thursday, March 14, 2019 was 2.5 million GH.

The peaceful demonstration in which the students promised to engage was violent and resulted in the destruction of properties belonging to the Winneba University of Education.

Central regional correspondent of Despite the media, Seth Mantey expressing the Ok FM The program "Ade Akye Abia," said the university board led by Professor George Darko, said the estimated cost was 2.5 million GH, excluding items stolen.

He explained that the badessment was only carried out on "destroyed facilities, CCTV cameras, vehicles …"

According to Seth Mantey, estimate estimation only focused on 3 damaged buses, Phone Boot, ATM, clbadroom windows, damage to the windows of the Catholic Church (all glbades destroyed).

Seth Mantey said the council should review all these issues and call the media on Friday, March 22, 2019 to inform them of the situation between students and the university.

He also said that students will be duly informed of the council's decision Friday of the resumption of school.

He noted, however, that the university campus was returning to calm and peace.

At the same time, he said the board had debunked the fact that the licensed lecturers had been reinstated to begin work at the university.

"The council stated that he was not reinstating the sacked speakers because he had acted in accordance with his mandate and not with the decision of the vice-chancellor reverend p. Professor Anthony Afful-Broni should send them back and say that if any of them wish to be reinstated, he should write to the Board of Governors for further investigation.

The University of Winneba Education is currently closed following violent protests on Thursday.

This follows a stalemate between the students and the vice-chancellor, the Reverend p. Professor Anthony Afful-Broni on the dismissal of three speakers.

The students went on a rampage and broke the windows and glbad doors of the buildings on the Winneba campus.

On Wednesday night, they burned tires and clashed with the police.

Announcing the decision to close the school, the Central Regional Minister, who chairs the Regional Security Council (REGSEC), said: "Every day that pbades, the level of insecurity [on campus] increases… "

What began as a normal student protest Tuesday rose on Wednesday, as students from the North Campus disrupted clbades and moved to replicate the same movement on the central campus.

They were prevented from entering the South Campus by police reinforcements on Wednesday afternoon. But the students only retired to resume distractions on Wednesday night.

"So, in the opinion of the Regional Security Council, we can not continue to allow the university to sit," said Kwamena Duncan.