Massive demo hits Wa over UDS realignments.

Education

Some demonstrators on the streets of Wa.

Massive demo hits Wa over UDS realignments.

Scores of residents of the Upper west region yesterday demonstrated on the principal streets of Wa against the realignments proposal being implemented by the central administration of the University for Development Studies, UDS.

The demonstration which was organised by a group calling itself the Concerned Citizens of the region witnessed several numbers in attendance.

Participants clothed in red and black chanted several slogans in solidarity of the march. Market women and transport owners where not left out in registering their displeasure about the state of the Was campus.

The group indicated the peaceful walk as one of the several strategies in place to see to the betterment of UDS Wa Campus.

Placards read â€œMR. PRESIDENT THANK YOU. SAVE WA CAMPUSâ€ â€œEXPEDITE ACTION ON THE AUTONOMY OF WA CAMPUSâ€ â€œWA CAMPUS IS SINKINGâ€ â€œAUTONOMY NOWâ€ and several messages calling on the leadership of the school.

Spokesperson for the group, Ishaque Suleiman addressing the press after the demonstration outlined a strategy he claimed was a ploy by authorities to make the Wa campus weak in numbers. He pointed out how the realignment of UDS only took faculties away from the Wa campus and non brought in return.

Mr. Suleiman alleged deliberate attempts are being made by the central administration to take away all relevant causes away from the Wa campus to the Tamale and Navorongo campus in a bid to collapse the Wa campus.

The faculty of education is one such department the demonstrators called the authorities to bring back to the Wa campus.

The PNC national Youth Organiser Kanleoba Awudulai Ishague who was present for solidarity in uplifting the status of the Wa campus was however disappointed by politicians of the region â€œover their large silenceâ€.

Mr. Awudulai also lauded the efforts of the Upper West regional house of chiefs for their efforts in calling on government to give the Wa campus autonomy as far back as 2013 and assured that everything possible would be made to achieve the desired impact.

Some concerned groups have so far issued statements in support of the demonstration and a court process filed at the Tamale High court to stop the university authorities from further implementing the realignment document.

The Graduation.

The 2018 year graduands of the Wa campus have issued threats to boy court the graduation ceremony in Tamale.

This follows the directive to all graduates of the Wa campus to be in Tamale for this yearâ€™s graduation ceremony.

In less than a week to the graduation ceremony scheduled to take place here in Wa, the school has asked graduates to head to Tamale for rehearsal purpose by coming Friday and failure to participate in the rehearsal comes with its consequence.

In a press release, the graduands described the school authority as being autocratic in their decision and called on the President of the country to intervene as he is expected to be the Guest of Honor.

Source: UWR/Ghana/WatchGhana.Com