Talks between the Takoradi Polytechnic Council and the Ghana National Union of Polytechnic Students (GNUPS) held on Tuesday at Takoradi ended in a deadlock. The talks, the third since June 3, this year, started around 0900 hours and ended at 2100 hours without any possible solution. It had therefore been postponed until a suitable date was found. GNA investigations revealed that whereas the Council and GNUPS had failed to reach an amicable solution, some students of the Polytechnic had expressed their frustration over the continual closure of the school. Mr Eric Kelvin Elikem Kotoko, Coordinating Secretary of GNUPS in an interview with the GNA on Wednesday alleged that students of the Takoradi Polytechnic were not safe and should not go to the school even if the Polytechnic Council re-opened the school. He said presently GNUPS was liaising with the Minister of Education Sports and Science, the Attorney General and other stakeholders in education to facilitate the release of students presently facing criminal prosecution in a Sekondi District Magistrate's court for rioting with offensive weapons. He accused the Council for failing to comment on the arrest and prosecution of some of the students of the school. GNUPS and students of the Takoradi Polytechnic jointly declared an indefinite boycott of all academic work at the Takoradi Polytechnic campus with effect from Thursday May 31. They also called for the immediate dismissal of the Principal, Dr. Samuel Obeng-Apori and accused him of "being incompetent, arrogant and autocratic". Source: GNA