Students, alumni and associates of the University Hall also known as Katanga and Unity Hall also known as Conti, of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), will be presenting a petition on Friday, 17 August 2018, to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Chancellor of the university, to stop the proposed conversion of the two male halls into mixed halls.

Stakeholders will be requesting the Chancellor to order a stay of the proposal until a meaningful and sustainable solution can be found to the perennial accommodation and security crisis on campus.

Stakeholders will be converging at the Kumasi Children’s Park at 9.00am, from where they will march peacefully to the Manhyia Palace to present the petition to the Asante monarch.

Though the decision by management to convert the halls has been met with stiff opposition by members of the University (Katanga) and Unity Halls, authorities have maintained that the move is to give 50 percent of the space to female students.

The conversion, according to management, will also increase female enrollment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education as well as increase the female population in the school.

The rivalry between both halls has been one of the underlying factors that prompted management’s decision to convert the halls.