Five culprits have been arrested via CCTV: The thuggery that occurred on the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology campus on Thursday night has so far been connected to a total of five individuals (KNUST).
Some students from the University of Cape Coast’s Casely Hayford Hall are among those who have been recognized (UCC).
They had flown to Kumasi to take part in the University Hall (Katanga) week celebrations and joined in on the hooliganism.
According to Wilson Trendit, the university officials believe that roughly 40 of the hooligans came to Kumasi to celebrate University Hall Week from the Casely Hayford Hall in UCC.
Some of them named thanks to the university’s closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras are also KNUST graduates who came to campus to take part in University Hall Week festivities.
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The university administration is continually looking over the videos in the hopes of finding additional offenders.
“Those who are not students, we will hand over their details to the police. The IGP is so much interested in this matter because we need to bring finality to this issue of hooliganism within the universities once and for all,” the KNUST University Relations Officer (URO), Dr. Norris Bekoe said.
He said from now on, “any student who is rusticated, or dismissed from the university, we will publish the person’s details, reasons why the person is no longer fit to be our student, and then we will also add photographs and we will circulate this across the major media platforms so parents can identify and know.”
Dr. Bekoe confirmed to Graphic Online that five people have been identified through the CCTV footage.
All events associated with hall week and SRC week on campus have been put on indefinite hold by the university administration.
This is in response to the violent altercation that took place on August 18, 2022, between certain members of Unity Hall (Continental) and University Hall (Katanga).
Although management has formed a committee to investigate the incident, it has also temporarily outlawed any form of massing up of students.
Below is a copy of a statement signed and issued by the KNUST Registrar, A.K. Boateng on the issue
