Court issues an order prohibiting UGs from violating the residence policy

An Accra tribunal has placed an interlocutory injunction on the residential policy decision by the University of Ghana (UG).This was once some annoyed students of the Commonwealth Hall of UG on Friday, Jan 6, 2023, filed a suit against the university for guiding residing students to hunt accommodation outside the field.There looks to be a perennial housing drawback at UG as some freshmen continuously need to rent outside the campus throughout reopening periods.On Gregorian calendar month 26, 2022, UG asked the continued students of Commonwealth Hall to search out accommodation outside the campus.“All continued students of Commonwealth Hall and continuing male students of Mensah Sarbah Hall won't come back to those halls or any of the normal galleries. they're to be at random appointed to offered rooms in any of the UGEL and personal hostels.“Beginning from the 2022/2023 tutorial year, solely Level one hundred and graduate students (Masters and Ph.D. level) are going to be assigned to Mensah Sarbah and Commonwealth Halls. Subsequently, collegian students can vacate the halls at the tip of Level 100 and should secure accommodation within the private hostels from Level two hundred until completion,” UG management aforesaid.But the court’s ruling on the matter said the established order should be maintained because it accustomed be before UG’s instruction on Gregorian calendar month 26, 2022.“IT IS herewith ORDERED that the suspect herein is hereby restrained either by itself or its officers, assigns, privies, agents, workmen, or anybody operating underneath the Defendant’s directions from going ahead to implement the choice of the Defendant, dated twenty sixth October 2022 in respect of the residential policy decision moving continued students of Commonwealth Hall, University of Ghana. The status quo must be maintained, as it used to be before the 26th Gregorian calendar month 2022 decision”.Below are UG’s full arrangements for students’ residence from the 2022/2023 tutorial yearThe University Council has deliberated on recommendations from the Residence Board and therefore the tutorial Board relating to changes to dorm arrangements. Council requested these changes following continual incidences of violence involving students.Council approved the subsequent measures to require impact from the beginning of the 2022/2023 academic year, that are to stop future occurrences of violence:All continued students of Commonwealth Hall and continuing male students of Mensah Sarbah Hall won't come back to those halls or any of the normal galleries. they're to be at random assigned to offered rooms in any of the UGEL and personal hostels. This live won't have an effect on feminine students of Mensah Sarbah Hall and students with special desires in each halls.Beginning from the 2022/2023 tutorial year, solely Level one hundred and graduate students (Master and Ph.D. level) are going to be appointed to Mensah Sarbah and Commonwealth Halls. Subsequently, collegian students can vacate the halls at the tip of Level 100 and should secure accommodation within the private hostels from Level two hundred till completion.Level 100 students who want traditional halls will be at random assigned to the halls. Progressively, all the normal halls (Mensah Sarbah, Commonwealth, Volta, Legon, and Akuafo halls) are going to be reserved for Level one hundred and graduate students only, culminating during a full in-out-out-out policy by 2025/2026.Additionally, the University is putting in CCTV cameras and Electronic Access management systems all told halls to enhance security.All students are to require note of those arrangements. more details will be proclaimed before the start of the 2022/2023 tutorial year.

Source: Citinewsroom