Students of the College for the past three weeks have boycotted lectures in protest over their unpaid allowances.

[contextly_sidebar id=”GsghnA1rb735uXZYVtpCdZOREGeTbeWu”]This follows a similar protest by their colleagues of the Kwadaso Agric College in the Ashanti Region, and other parts of the country.

Vice Principal of the Damongo College of Agric, Abdulai Mohammed, in a Citi News interview bemoaned the situation, and asked government to fix the problem.

“Our students are currently agitating for restoration of their allowances by the government, and for that matter they decided that may be one of the ways to see government to listen to them is to vacate campus.”

According to him, lecturers and office staff continue to report at work for other duties.

“This is the third week running, but staff and all lecturers are on campus and they are doing their normal duties, except that lectures are not ongoing just because of the absence of the students.”

He said authorities cannot manage the situation, saying, “We are actually helpless in the sense that, the decision that they took is a nationwide one, and that is what their union (ASU) has asked them to do.”

“On our part, we are ready to teach, but then once they are not there we can only attend to some other administrative duties. It is not the best of situations for us, but we still going on with the other activities around.”

It will be recalled that students of the Kwadaso Agric College also deserted their classrooms in protest of government’s failure to restore their allowances.

Earlier, some selected students of the nation’s five Colleges of Agric besieged the premises of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), and demanded the immediate release of their allowances.

The Ministry of Agriculture in an attempt to persuade them, announced that it had tabled before Cabinet the students’ request.

However, there are no updates of a possible restoration of the allowances, forcing the students to boycott lectures until further notice.

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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/citifmononline.com/Ghana

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Within a limited time frame, the committee has been tasked to establish the ambiguity surrounding the renewed communal clash between two Konkomba clans at Biriyamba and Yiyamba settlements in the Gushiegu district.

The committee is headed by Deputy Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini who doubles as the Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu constituency.

Other members of the committee include the three regional security commanders, District Chief Executive for Gushiegu and Members of Parliament for Gushiegu and Yunyoo who are both Konkombas.

The committee’s report is expected to ascertain the real cause of the renewed clash which might help REGSEC to determine the wayforward.

Northern Regional Police Commander, DCOP Ken Yeboah on Saturday May, 31 visited the two troubled Biriyamba and Yiyamba farming on a fact finding mission.

In a Citi News interview, he said there was nobody to talk to since residents there have fled to unknown destinations.

Describing the parcel of land in question the feuding factions fought over, DCOP Ken Yeboah said the renewed clash was needless.

He called for dialogue in all conflict prone areas in the entire northern region to move the area forward in the right direction.

Three persons were reported dead whilst several households were torched during the recent clash.

Preliminary reports indicated that the combatants engaged in a fearless gun battle over a parcel of farmland.

By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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