KATANGA, UNITY HALL RESIDENTS PETITION ASANTEHENE

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A petition has been serve to the Chancellor Otumfuo Osei tutu of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology by the Students, alumni and associates of the University Hall, popularly called Katanga Hall. 

The agitations are resulting out of University’s management to convert both the University Hall and the Katanga Hall from all male into a mixed-gender halls. The management has explained earlier in a Press statement that the decision is increase intake of female students on campus as well as address the security risks the female students are exposed to living off- campus. 

However some interest groups including current and former residents of the two Halls of resident have not taken kindly to the change in the statuses of the Unity and Katanga Halls leading to agitations and street protests. 

Already, some of the students have filed a suit at a Kumasi High Court with the aim of stopping the University’s management from going ahead with their conversion plan. 

Today,, Friday, August 17,  a group of current and old students of the KNUST went on a street protest from the Amakom Children’s Park where they first converged and marched through the selected streets to the Manhyia Palace where they presented their eight-page Petition to the Chancellor of the KNUST, Otumfuo Osei Tutu.

 The Petition was received on behalf of the Asantehene by Asantehene’s Ankobeahene, Baffour Kwame Kusi and the Chief Protocol Officer at the Manhyia Palace, Enerst Saahene. 

Baffuor Kwame Kusi assured the demonstrators that the Petition will be given to Otumfuo Osei Tutu and that they would soon hear from him.  Speaking to journalists later, Spokesperson for the University and Katanga Halls,  Kankam Kwarteng, noted that the idea of university management to convert all unisex halls to mixed-gender halls will rather have  negative implications for students, alumni and associates of Katanga  and for tertiary education at large and should not be allowed. He proposed that the management takes steps to expand residential and academic facilities adding that the Queen Elizabeth Hall should rather be.

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