The Vice President of the Ghana Telecom University College Dr. Baffuor Awuah, has confirmed that the university has indefinitely postponed its Students’ Representative Council (SRC) elections following a High Court injunction preventing the school authorities from going ahead with the elections, myjoyonline.com can confirm. This comes in the wake of accusations leveled against the university authorities by some students who say the authorities are interfering with the upcoming elections which were slated to take place on Tuesday April 5, 2011. The students, some of who spoke to Myjoyonline.com accused the school authorities of consistently influencing the choice of leadership of the students body, an action they contend is intended to prevent them from participating in decisions relating to their welfare. Some students who were vying for positions were disqualified by the Vetting Committee of the school on grounds the students concerned say are untenable. “They want to put their own people there,” a student alleged. But speaking to Myjoyonline.com,/b> Monday, the Vice President of the University, Dr. Baffuor Awuah said such accusations are “absolute nonsense” insisting that “we don’t even know the candidates so how can we interfere?” Dr. Awuah said the school authorities did not see the need to interfere in the activities of the school and that his outfit was aware of the injunction on the elections, stressing “it is purely a students’ affair.” He said the student body already has a Judicial Council as well as an Appellate Body that deals with their own internal issues and that there was no reason why people should rope the school authorities into the difficulties the students are facing with their elections. “I want them to be as independent as they can be,” he said. Story by Derick Romeo Adogla/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana

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