Because I was not present, police were unable to intervene early in the KNUST clash - Ashanti regional minister.
Simon Osei-Mensah, the Ashanti Regional Minister, has expressed that conflicts between understudies of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) would have been turned away on the off chance that he had been in Kumasi as the occasions prompting the conflict unfurled.
Simon Osei-Mensah demonstrated that in light of his nonappearance, he could never have made the important game plans to forestall a conflict between understudies of the University Hall (Katanga) and Unity Hall (Continental) on the grounds that he got knowledge late, 3newsroom.com reports.
He added that in spite of being the top of the locale's security committee, he could never have requested the police into the college when he got knowledge on the grounds that the fundamental counsels had not been finished.
"We got the knowledge extremely late. Perhaps, in the event that I had been in Kumasi, I might have had the data a piece prior. At the point when I got the data, it was late, so rapidly, I considered the Regional Police Commander and the other security organizations that they ought to meet and immediately convey a public statement that we have known about this, and if they truly think it wise, perhaps we will regard them as hoodlums and not as understudies.
"In any case, it was lamentable, when they delivered, the Vice Chancellor additionally considered me that they have seen that the understudies were activating so we needed to call the Regional Police Commander that they ought to get certain individuals and immediately move in. What you ordinarily do is that you first call the closest police headquarters and send a couple of individuals there to help while we prepare the required powers to come and support you, yet in that cycle, it requires some investment before you can assemble them.
"You can't on the grounds that you are a provincial priest and the law-Act 10(30) of 2020-gives you the situation as the seat of the REGSEC, you get up and move security staff to a college grounds. No, they have their inward security, so you need to examine with the Vice Chancellor and the administration there before you enter. You can do that perhaps in a circumstance like psychological oppressor circumstances," he said.
On August 15, 2022, the college again made some unacceptable titles when understudies dwell in the University Hall (Katanga) and Unity Hall (Continental) conflicted.
The conflict brought about no less than 11 understudies supporting different wounds, with properties, including 11 vehicles, being vandalized.
As per an understudy at the college who addressed GhanaWeb on state of namelessness, the inhabitants of the Katanga Hall intentionally went after understudies of Conti while they were leaving on a parade.
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