One person has been confirmed injured after scores of Savannah College of Education students clashed with the police this afternoon while demanding a refund of their fees.
Yesterday, the students locked up lecture halls and boycotted all academic activities, vowing to confront any lecturer who attempted to enter the school.
The aggrieved students accused the college management of deception, claiming they were misled into believing that the institution had been absorbed into the public sector.
They argued that the college was listed on the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission’s (GTEC) website as a public institution, only to be informed otherwise after gaining admission.
But Savannah Regional Minister, Salisu Be-Awuribe, has accused both GTEC and the previous NPP administration of prematurely announcing that the Savannah College of Education had been absorbed by the government and had attained public status.
According to him, the rush to publish the said update on the GTEC website was only aimed at scoring political points.
Reacting to concerns raised by trainee students in an interview with JoyNews regarding the college’s status, the Regional Minister criticised GTEC and the Nana Addo-led administration for handling the matter poorly.
He assured students of the government’s commitment to fast-tracking the process for the college’s proper absorption into the public system.
“We are making sure that we get the Savannah College of Education absorbed as quickly as possible, and before they graduate, they will be graduating in a public institution,” he said.
Mr Be-Awuribe pleaded that “they should lay down their arms.”
He added that there’s no need to close down the school.
“They are working earnestly on that, and I can reassure assure the school neighborhood, definitely get the process.”
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