University of Education students on rampage

University of Education students went on a rampage last Saturday, 1 April 2017, to register their displeasure at a poor entertainment programme.

The students destroyed property worth millions of cedis belonging to the institution and an event manager.

The students, numbering about 500 according to the Daily Graphic damaged the event manager’s entire entertainment equipment and removed some pavement blocks in the school.

The Winneba District Police Command arrested three students in the course of the rampage.

The students are Dasmani Alhassan-Daugu and Enock Gah, both Level 100 students, and Ransford Brobbey, a Level 300 student.

Superintendent Godfrey Tetteh Adjirakor said the entertainment programme was organised by the Students Representative Council (SRC) to celebrate the SRC Week which took place at the entertainment forecourt of the Professor Anamuah-Mensah Conference Hall in the university.

Superintendent Godfrey Tetteh said the students got angry because one of the main artistes invited to perform decided to end his performance within 15 minutes of mounting the stage.

He said "Infuriated by the act, some of the students are said to have approached the organisers of the programme. Not satisfied with their explanation, the students began to cause confusion and in the process damaged the equipment belonging to the organisers."

He noted that the organisers could not stop the students from damaging the equipment which some of the organisers fled to avoid being attacked.

Superintendent Godfrey Tetteh said the police upon hearing the incident rushed to the scene to arrest the students.