Students of Bolgatanga Midwifery College yesterday poured out all their frustration during their demonstration against school management for treating them as slaves in the name of acquiring Midwifery as a profession. Apexnewsgh.com report
The students who all came out and unanimously demonstrated told Apexnewsgh.com they are suffering at the hands of their school management and needed government intervention to free them from what they described as bondage.
If not for the invention of security ranging from the Regional Police Commander, Municipal Police Commander, officials BNI, and others. No one would have predicted what the outcome of the demonstration will be. We could hear some of the school teachers passing words like, “The students took us unaware” and “We were not expecting this at all”
However, the school management together with student leaders was able to have a meeting following some of the issues they raised.
The Regional Minister Stephen Yakubu also came, but by the time he came, the security had already done a good job by way of calming things down. However, our source from the meeting informed us that the Regional Minister requested a comprehensive report of what happened to be submitted to his office.
Read below detailed reasons why Bolgatanga Midwifery College demonstrated.
“Last semester, we paid over Ghc 300 for utility and over Ghc 300 for electricity but our light was disconnected without any tangible reason”.
“If management is having a meeting, they don’t care to engage our leadership, they always come out from and imposed things on us”.
“Thieves always came in with knives and guns to steal our phones. Just last month April, 14 phones were stolen from students, and this semester alone in the month of May within 1 week, students have lost 9 phones and when we complain to the principal, she will give us a heartbreaking response like “You people are careless”
“For just two months, we are paying Ghc 1500.00 for feeding. Initially, we used to take sardines, but this time they are not giving us sardines anymore. They only give tea and Koko and even with the Koko”.
“I am in year two, ever since I came into this school, I have not enjoyed Wi-Fi yet, every time they keep increasing the fee of the Wi-Fi”
“Our dormitory is overcrowded”.
“We are not saying they shouldn’t enjoy their AC, but they should also let us get what we are paying for”.
“The food they are serving us, even a dog in my house will not agree to the TZ they served us”.
“On several occasions when they are serving the soup and is about to finish, they will add water to it and steer it”.
“We use to pay Ghc1100.00 for breakfast, lunch, and supper and this semester they have added Ghc 400.00 and now we pay Ghc 1500.00 and the funny thing is that, Ghc 1100.00 was able to serve us sardine and sugar and now with Ghc 1500,00 we don’t get sardine and sugar”.
“Now, instead of our giving us the sardine we paid for, they now used their hands to squeeze Amani and put it inside our pepper”.
We are not in Senior High, we want to charge phones by our beds. They claimed we are grown up but they are treating us as Primary school children. they stressed.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana
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