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Over twenty students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in Kumasi, have been arrested after students went on rampage on Monday morning, destroying public and private property in a violent protest.<\/p>\n
This was confirmed by the University\u2019s\u00a0Relations Officer, Kwame Yeboah Jnr.<\/p>\n
The students were protesting alleged brutalities meted out to their colleagues who were arrested at the University Hall last Friday and later granted bail.<\/p>\n
Citi News\u2019Ashanti Regional correspondent, Hafiz Tijani, reported that armed military and police personnel have taken over the KNUST campus after the protest led to the\u00a0destruction of private\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>and public properties.<\/p>\n \u201cThe protest which started as a peaceful one, nearly turned chaotic when armed police officers fired gunshots to disperse the rampaging students. The students marched through campus amidst chants and held placards which called for the Vice Chancellor to be sacked. Some other placards spoke against what the students called brutalities being meted to their colleagues by internal security. Streetlights, signages, glass doors at the main administration block have all been destroyed. Dustbins were destroyed, leaving \u00a0piles of refuse scattered all over.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cVehicles and motorbikes belonging to teaching and non-teaching staff were also not spared. Some offices and cars were ransacked, while properties at the school were also destroyed. Lectures were eventually boycotted as students who defied the SRC\u2019s directive not to go for lectures later joined in the protest. Police looked helpless while the destruction was going on, \u201d Hafiz reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n