KNUST shut down indefinitely

Following prior conflicts between a few students of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) driven by students of Katanga lobby and a joint team of the police and military, school experts and the provincial security committee have after a crisis meeting made plans to close down the school indefinitely.

According to media reports, all local students have been asked to vacate the school premises latest by noon tomorrow October 23. The Ashanti regional minister who communicated this information also stated that the only people who will be given one hall to stay in will be international students. The minister further communicated that curfew has also been placed on the school from 6:00 PM today till 6:00 AM tomorrow. 

It would be recalled that soldiers were deployed to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to augment efforts by the police to control rampaging students.

Even though the joint task force of these security agencies was present on the premises of the university, the students mounted roadblocks, burnt tires on the streets within the campus and vandalized property. Millions of Ghana cedis worth of properties were destroyed. These activities of the aggrieved students are what has resulted in this decision of authorities of the school.