By
Thelma Abbey/Doris Amenyo, GNA
Accra, July 20, GNA – Representatives from the
four male halls from the three major universities across the Country, has met
to form a common bond between rivalry halls to create opportunity for fellow
members to attend programmes without fear of being injured.
The University Hall, Commonwealth Hall, Unity
Hall and Casley Hayford Hall have pledged to promote a healthy relationship
amongst themselves.
The Universities are; University of Ghana,
University Cape Coast and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Technology
(KNUST).
In a meeting with the press, Mr Samuel Sadat
Saeed Afari, the Former General Secretary of Katanga, University of Science and
Technology, Kumasi, said unhealthy rivalry had over years weakened the core
values, and shattered the dreams of most students who get paralyzed or injured
whenever there were clashes.
He said it had undermined the security of
students making the campuses and universities unsafe for inter-halls and
inter-university programmes, adding that, if these scars from the negative
actions of male halls were not curtailed, it would plunge the nation into a
national crisis that will divert resources from nation building to unprofitable
expenses.
Mr Asare said “this conference, will usher
fellow students into a fraternity that will attempt to halt unhealthy
rivalries”.
He announced that, with the aid of Young
Africans for Opportunities, the male hall fraternities throughout the country
would deliberate and consider possible plans of forming an all-male halls
fraternity.
He said “a general platform will be created to
bridge the communication gap between these halls; capacity building initiatives
would be enrolled to make sure that member institutions equip themselves to be
effective in discharging their duties and a committee will be formed to
champion the course of this fraternity”.
Mr Prosper Smitt Boahene, the JCR President of
Commonwealth Hall said the four male halls coming together as “the United
Front”, would find practical solutions to help curb rivalry issues among
universities to enhance development.
He encouraged all members in the boys’ halls
across the country to come and support this course so that the group’s
influence would not be limited to the scope or confines of the three
universities mentioned but extend to the country at large.
GNA