The timely intervention on Friday of the Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris, prevented what would have been a bloody clash between management of the Tamale Polytechnic and students.
The students had planned to demonstrate against the school authorities for failure to pursue dismissed lecturers to release their last semester examination results.
Five lecturers of the school were sacked by the governing council last year following allegations of having sexual affairs with some female students.
Since then the affected lecturers have refused to release the results creating tension in the school.
The students have vowed not to re-sit or re-write those subjects and appealed to the director and staff to impress upon the lecturers to release the results.
The intended demonstration was also to register the students’ displeasure at what they perceive as government neglect of the school.
They wondered why it was taking the government so long a time to tar roads on the campus.
The dusty nature of the roads, the students contend, poses health hazard to them and therefore appealed to the government to tar them, address the acute water shortage and complete abandoned school projects.
Daniel Adjei Sampong, spokesman for the students,’ said all projects under construction in the school have been abandoned by the contractors and the school authorities are doing nothing to address the situation.
Alhaji Idris, who was accompanied by the members of the Regional Security Council appealed to the students to exercise restraint and not to allow outsiders to infiltrate their ranks to forment trouble.
He urged them to sit with the authorities to resolve the problem amicably promising to liaise with the relevant agencies to get the contractors to resume work.
