Some persons who have participated in student politics on various campuses have rubbished a suggestion by the Acting Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) for the Agona East District in the Central Region, Stephen Agyei Yeboah, that political groupings in tertiary institutions should be banned. The Ghanaian Times newspaper in its Monday edition, quoted Mr. Agyei Yeboah as describing political groupings such as Tertiary Education Students Confederacy (TESCON) and Tertiary Education Institution Network (TEIN) affiliated to the two major political parties as breeders of indiscipline. This suggestion has been met with sharp reactions from some political leaders who have once been leaders in students’ politics. One of them, Mustapha Hamid, who was once a member of TESCON which is affiliated to the NPP, and now a member of the NPP Communications’ team said this suggestion by the Acting NCCE Boss does not hold water. He explained that Ghana’s constitution states that a person of 18 years and above can register and vote, adding the suggestion by the NCCE is contrary to the constitution of the land. Mustapha Hamid made this reaction in an interview on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem on Tuesday. He debunked the assertion that students who engaged in politics do not excel in academic works, adding “politics is a learning process where one matures as and when you get involved in it”. ‘Almost every political leader in the country started from the University, so calling for the banning of campus [politics] is not the best; then National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) should be banned’, Mustapha Hamid stressed. The President of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) branch of TEIN, Samuel Gyamfi argued that there is no scientific basis that has proven that student politics affects academic performance. He noted that university education is not about academic works but is an institution where people learn a lot of basic things in life to build the person’s capacity after school.