NPP Member of Parliament [MP] for the Manhyia North constituency in the Ashanti Region, Collins Owusu Amankwah has expressed his disappointment in authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology [KNUST] and the university council for watching an unexpected violent demonstration unfold in the school on Monday.

“Even though I don’t side with the students for destroying school properties, the university council should be blamed, especially the Vice-Chancellor of the school for his inconsistent decisions as far as the school is concerned,” he stated.

He believes the Vice-Chancellor’s attitude and decisions taken in recent times concerning the school was a major part of the destruction.

He was speaking on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ programme, Tuesday.

The Member of Parliament stressed that all the three main public universities in the country (University of Ghana, Legon, KNUST and UCC) have some traditions that make them unique among the others, therefore “there is no need for any authority in position to target changing those traditions, which have nothing to do with academics”.

“Personally I am in pains because this violence was avoidable, this is because when the students started registering their grievances, they proposed a negotiation term which was not taken into consideration, and as the law says justice delayed is a justice denied,” he said.

He added that “it will serve the Vice-Chancellor much good should he resign from his post as the students demand because his continuous stay will cause more harm and his life will also be at stake.”

According to him, the NPP are not attempting to sack the Vice-Chancellor of KNUST as some members of the National Democratic Congress [NDC] are speculating, but “all we are saying is the best thing should be done”.