The Student Representative Council (SRC) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have given an update on their negotiations with the school's management.
The management, the SRC and a government delegation held a meeting to find solutions to the current impasse.
The school is currently shut down after students staged a violent protest against what they claim as oppression from the school authorities.
This left several school properties destroyed by the angry students.
The decisions reached are :
1. Return to previous hall/college week celebration schedules. All hall celebrations will be celebrated separately.
2. Open engagement with students regularly (Have an open forum with students to get to know their concerns). Also, students will be treated with respect and dignity-unnecessary harassment from any quarters in their residential life will be promptly attended to.
3. Reverse decision to consolidate /centralise all student association accounts.
4. Complete lift of ban on morale.
5. Accommodate UNITY and UNIVERSITY hall executives. They should be given the respect due them and also recognition to function as constitutionally elected executives.
6. University management to assure students the happenings of student brutality by security personnel will not happen again and ensure the safety of students on campus.
7. Re-orientation of campus security personnel. Their limits should be well-defined.
8. University to provide medical care for affected brutalised students.
9. That in light of moving forward a reconciliation approach rather than punitive should be adopted. The end goal of the mediation program is to heal the divides involved.
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