{"id":256001,"date":"2016-10-08T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T08:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=256001"},"modified":"2016-10-08T08:55:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T08:55:47","slug":"commonwealth-sarbah-hall-students-clash-on-ug-campus-set-car-ablaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=256001","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth, Sarbah Hall students clash on UG campus; set car ablaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some students of the University of Ghana, Legon clashed today [Saturday] ahead of the school&#8217;s matriculation of freshmen for the 2016\/2017 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes were between students of Commonwealth hall and Mensah-Sarbah hall.<\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses, the clashes began when a member of Mensah-Sarbah was attacked by Commonwealth boys which led to a retaliatory reaction from the Mensah-Sarbah camp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/f6140f98-f2a7-4f11-af94-4a152075ee01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-256002\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/f6140f98-f2a7-4f11-af94-4a152075ee01.jpg\" alt=\"f6140f98-f2a7-4f11-af94-4a152075ee01\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate\u00a0that the procession of some level 100 students to the Matriculation ground was ongoing when students began throwing stones.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-256020\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/8b4ec239-f179-4dbd-97b9-07df2bc4f6cb.jpg\" alt=\"8b4ec239-f179-4dbd-97b9-07df2bc4f6cb\" width=\"655\" height=\"491\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Citi News&#8217;<\/strong> sources, commonwealth is accusing Sarbah of inviting &#8216;Katangas&#8217; to reinforce their base in anticipation of a clash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The commonwealth hall camp were clad in red while their arch rivals \u00a0sarbah hall were clad in black.<\/p>\n<p>The two camps fired musketry amid chanting war songs. They also wielded broken seats, stones, slabs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-256017\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/40c13165-f5f1-4d8a-b434-4b7286f57844.jpg\" alt=\"40c13165-f5f1-4d8a-b434-4b7286f57844\" width=\"617\" height=\"472\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A \u00a0vehicle was also set ablaze in the process.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-256022\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/7b4a524c-db19-488b-860e-cd0cd7f3bcd9.jpg\" alt=\"7b4a524c-db19-488b-860e-cd0cd7f3bcd9\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Police and Fire service personnel eventually arrived on the scene, in front of Mensah-Sarbah hall, to calm tensions and prevent an escalation of the clashes.The fire in the burning car was also put out.<\/p>\n<p>Police presence has currently been deployed to reinforce security in the school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commonwealth, Sarbah hall rivalry\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a long standing rivalry between the two traditional halls which is demonstrated in sportsmanship and academics.<\/p>\n<p>This however turns bitter and sometimes bloody on occasions like matriculation. Last year, similar attacks occured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Radio Univers<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some students of the University of Ghana, Legon clashed today [Saturday] ahead of the school&#8217;s matriculation of freshmen for the 2016\/2017 academic year. The clashes were between students of Commonwealth hall and Mensah-Sarbah hall. According to eyewitnesses, the clashes began when a member of Mensah-Sarbah was attacked by Commonwealth boys which led to a retaliatory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":256004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,11],"tags":[12443,3,12444,12445,12446],"class_list":["post-256001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-commonwealth-hall","tag-ghana-news","tag-mensah-sarbah-hall","tag-university-of-ghana-clashes","tag-university-of-ghana-matriculation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/256004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}