{"id":1168627,"date":"2022-08-06T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/vandals-of-ug-take-away-bust-of-john-mensah-sarbah-from-the-vikings-hall-after-riot\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T14:30:39","slug":"vandals-of-ug-take-away-bust-of-john-mensah-sarbah-from-the-vikings-hall-after-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/vandals-of-ug-take-away-bust-of-john-mensah-sarbah-from-the-vikings-hall-after-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandals of UG take away bust of John Mensah Sarbah from the Vikings hall after riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Vandals of UG take away bust of John Mensah Sarbah from the Vikings hall after riot\" title=\"Vandals of UG take away bust of John Mensah Sarbah from the Vikings hall after riot\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>An inter-hall fight ensued between the residents of the Commonwealth and John Mensah Sarbah halls of the University of Ghana last night.<\/p>\n<p>Narrating the incident to myjoyonline.com, an eyewitness who pleaded anonymity said residents of Sarbah Hall celebrated \u2018Sarbahfest\u2019 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the festivities, the residents of the hall went on a procession, what is referred to in local parlance as \u2018Jama\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, one of them strayed to the Commonwealth Hall, he was beaten up and his phone taken away.<\/p>\n<p>The beaten Viking is said to have returned to his hall of residence to report the incident. His colleagues then followed him to the Commonwealth Hall and a fight ensued.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-06-at-12.18.32-PM-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Vandals of UG take away bust of John Mensah Sarbah from the Vikings hall after riot\" class=\"wp-image-10032147671\"   title=\"Vandals of UG take away bust of John Mensah Sarbah from the Vikings hall after riot\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>In the process, a vehicle parked at the Mensah Sarbah Hall car park was set ablaze.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Video-2022-08-06-at-12.17.14-AM-1.mp4\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-06-at-12.18.38-PM-1024x766.jpeg\" alt=\"Vandals of UG take away bust of John Mensah Sarbah from the Vikings hall after riot\" class=\"wp-image-10032147664\"   title=\"Vandals of UG take away bust of John Mensah Sarbah from the Vikings hall after riot\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-06-at-12.18.35-PM-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Vandals of UG take away bust of John Mensah Sarbah from the Vikings hall after riot\" class=\"wp-image-10032147673\"   title=\"Vandals of UG take away bust of John Mensah Sarbah from the Vikings hall after riot\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBesides burning the car, they came to fight, destroyed a lot of things and took away one of statues at the Sarbah Hall,\u201d our source said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-06-at-11.22.38-AM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Vandals of UG take away bust of John Mensah Sarbah from the Vikings hall after riot\" class=\"wp-image-10032147658\"   title=\"Vandals of UG take away bust of John Mensah Sarbah from the Vikings hall after riot\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Residents of Commonwealth Hall of the University are otherwise known as Vandals and Sarbah Hall residents are also called Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say it took the timely intervention of the Police to quell the riot.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Video-2022-08-06-at-12.18.15-PM.mp4\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inter-hall fight ensued between the residents of the Commonwealth and John Mensah Sarbah halls of the University of Ghana last night. Narrating the incident to myjoyonline.com, an eyewitness who pleaded anonymity said residents of Sarbah Hall celebrated \u2018Sarbahfest\u2019 on Friday. As part of the festivities, the residents of the hall went on a procession, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[4737,4030,678,2124,20499,22472,22473,22508],"class_list":{"0":"post-1168627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-bust","9":"tag-hall","10":"tag-john","11":"tag-mensah","12":"tag-riot","13":"tag-sarbah","14":"tag-vandals","15":"tag-vikings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}