Three NUGS Emerges, KNUST SRC Wants Parliamentary Probe

The Students Representative Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has called on Parliament to probe the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) over its alleged partisan nature.

It also wants some clarity on the role of the local and national secretariats of NUGS during the impasse at KNUST, that led to riots and the temporary closure of the university.

Three different groups have so far emerged as elected leaders of NUGS 2018.

“On this day, I put before Parliament to set up a committee to look into the issues of the local NUGs secretariat and the national NUGs secretariat,” SRC President for KNUST, Kelvin Sah, said at its State of the SRC address.

The KNUST SRC also said it intends to follow in the footsteps of the University of Ghana and withdraw from NUGS.

According to the KNUST SRC executives, the politicization of NUGS was driving a wedge between students.

“When we expect the National Union of Ghana Students to be playing the lead advocate role for all students, we rather find it in a very porous state of being infiltrated by political machinations which we do not support on any day.”

“We have to state on record that for any issues that concern student leadership, it must be apolitical. The moment political machinations set in, we are sure where we are heading towards, which is not the way to go,” Mr. Sah said.

---citinewsroom.com