Professor Vladimir Antwi Danso, Dean and Director of Academic Affairs at the Ghana Armed Forces Command & Staff College says culprits in the the occasional clashes between rival halls at the University of Ghana and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology must be punished.
Speaking on Citi FM/Citi TV’s current affairs programme, The Big Issue, he maintained that such traditions are not worth supporting and emulating.
He opined that, in preventing these issues from recurring, university officials must engage the services of National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) officials to nip such actions in the bud.
He also called for the establishment of a police post on the main university campuses to mount periodic surveillance.
“In conflict, if you don’t solve a problem between the first set, what it means is that it creates its own sub-system. It creates its own pillars. What is happening in these halls is that they always want to say we are defending a certain tradition. Ask them what their tradition is, and they can’t tell you,” he said.
In less than two weeks, two clashes have been recorded between students of the Commonwealth Hall and the Mensah Sarbah Hall Ghana, followed by a clash between some members of the University Hall (Katanga) and Unity Hall (Conti) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.