Three male students affiliated to University Hall otherwise known as Katanga Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have been arrested by KNUST Police.
The suspects who are yet to be officially charged were arrested upon a tip-off while having a meeting with their colleagues.
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A member of Katanga Hall alumni, Nana Agyei Blackie, confirmed the arrest on Adom FM‘s morning show, Dwaso Nsem Thursday.
He noted that the boys in custody have been denied bail and efforts to get the school authorities to see reason has proven futile.
The distraught alumni indicated that there is a grand scheme by school authorities to intimidate the students to kowtow to their whims and caprices.
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Nana Agyei Blackie said he is going to Kumasi to secure bail for the students and vowed to seek justice for them.
Meanwhile, the university’s Public Relationship Officer (PRO), Kwame Yeboah has denied knowledge of the arrest of the three students.
Fresh female students were, in August last month, admitted into Unity [Conti] and University Halls otherwise known as Katanga Hall for the first time, a move the male hall members have not been pleased with, leading to some tensions between the students and university’s authorities.
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