The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has given government up till Thursday June 5, 2014 to rescind its decision to pass on the full cost of utility bills to the public universities and other tertiary institutions.
President of NUGS, Samuel Darkwa Binfoh in an interview with Citi News said: “The government should come out and withdraw that letter it wrote to ECG we gave them two weeks and the two weeks ends on this very Thursday.”
Government has directed public tertiary institutions and state agencies to pay the full cost of their utility bills.
But tertiary students are kicking against the move saying, it will burden them financially.
According to Binfoh, “things are difficult in the nation to the extent that the government itself has come out to say that things are not going well. How much more our parents who are sitting by the road side selling and using their meager income to take care of us to come to school?”
He indicated that NUGS will eventually demonstrate if the government does not heed to their call.
“The government must stop that policy with immediate effect when the government does not respond to us accordingly we will lead the way to demonstrate and all the institutions will follow us as such,” he warned.
Meanwhile, the Student Representative Councils of the Cape Coast University and the University of Development Studies have agreed to support a regional university demonstration over the matter.
By: Magdalene Larnyoh/citifmonline.com/Ghana