Some students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) involved in the campus riot on Thursday, August 18, 2022, have been picked up by Police service to aid with investigations.
The University Relations Officer of KNUST, Dr. Daniel Norris Bekoe, stated that student found culpable will be brought to book to serve as a deterrent to others.
“Vehicles belonging to staff that have been vandalised will be fixed and handed back to them. CCTV cameras and other properties belonging to the Unity Hall have been destroyed. The halls will have to pay for all these because if they can allow those outside the school to join in these atrocities, they are the ones to be held liable.â€
Students of the University hall (Katanga) and Unity Hall (Conti) clashed during a procession by some members of Katanga.
The clash ensued when students of Unity Hall refused to allow students of University Hall to use a route in front of their Hall for a procession.
Eleven people were injured, while nine vehicles belonging to staff of the institution were vandalized.
The clash at KNUST comes as hall rivalries have received scrutiny in the wake of the violence at Mensah Sarbah Hall.
Students of Mensah Sarbah Hall clashed with students from Commonwealth Hall at the University of Ghana about two weeks ago.