{"id":1270934,"date":"2022-12-28T17:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/28\/cwealth-mensah-sarbah-hall-students-clash-with-legon-security\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T17:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T17:03:46","slug":"cwealth-mensah-sarbah-hall-students-clash-with-legon-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/28\/cwealth-mensah-sarbah-hall-students-clash-with-legon-security\/","title":{"rendered":"C&#8217;wealth, Mensah Sarbah Hall students clash with Legon security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"396\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Legon Security clash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Legon-Security-clash-696x396.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"396\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Legon-Security-clash-696x396.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Legon Security clash\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>There was a clash between some students of the Commonwealth Hall and Mensah Sarbah Hall of the University of Ghana, Legon Tuesday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The clash was as a result of an attempt by the campus security personnel to stop the students from holding a joint press conference against the recent decision by the management to review residential status of continuing students of the two halls.<\/p>\n<p>According to the University Security, which was later beefed up by personnel of the Ghana Police Service, the students had no permission to hold the presser.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\" height=\"316\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=316&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2FTV3GH%2Fvideos%2F880521713139491%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The students wanted to express disagreement with the management decision, which was communicated in a communique on Wednesday, December 14.<\/p>\n<p>According to the decision, all continuing students of the Commonwealth Hall, an all-male hall of residence, and continuing male students of Mensa Sarbah Hall will not return to their halls nor to any of the traditional halls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are to be randomly assigned to available rooms in any of the UGEL and private hostels,\u201d the communique said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContinuing female students of Mensah Sarbah Hall and students with special needs in both halls will not be affected by this measure,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken by the University Council following incessant clashes between students of the two halls, the last being on Friday, August 5.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwame_amoh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @kwame_amoh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a clash between some students of the Commonwealth Hall and Mensah Sarbah Hall of the University of Ghana, Legon Tuesday morning. 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