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Defiant students of the Wesley College of education in the Ashanti Region on Tuesday demonstrated against school authorities for sacking their colleagues who failed in their mathematics examination.
However, the demonstration turned chaotic, after the students defied Police orders to back down.
A policy directive from their supervising institution, University of Cape Coast (UCC), directing the withdrawal of students who fail in some subjects from colleges triggered the demonstration. This is the third incident by students across the country in about a week. Citi News’ Ashanti Regional Correspondent, Hawa Iddrisu reported that the students refused to eat their meals or write their quiz examination during the protest.
Some of the students who spoke to Citi News said “we are pleading with the UCC to bring our colleagues back and give them the chance to re-write their failed papers. We want a change of policy. This policy is not helping us, it was made for us but we think it is not helping us.”
Another student said they refused to eat their meals to show how serious they were adding that when the policy “gets to the worst part, everybody will be affected. So we want the UCC boss to have mercy on us and bring back the referred students.”
Meanwhile the principal of the school has refused to speak on the matter. In a related development, the Ministry of Education has condemned the protest. Speaking to Citi News on the development, the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education, Francis Gbadago, said students found destroying school property will be handed over to law enforcement agencies to be prosecuted.
“If there is any student out there who thinks that indiscipline is what is going to carry the day for him or her, then they should be expecting the security agencies to make sure that they bring them to book. As a ministry, we do not think that there is the need for students to take the laws into their own hands.
These are teachers who are being trained to come and teach our children so there is the need for these teachers to be disciplined… I think that is unfortunate and it must be condemned to the fullest” he noted.
– By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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