The Governing Council of the University of Education, Winneba has stated that it will set up a committee to investigated the issues that led to a heated demonstration by students and some lecturers on the premises of the school.

The demonstration that took place on Friday March 15 became violent and led to the destruction of school properties on the campus worth GHC 250,000.

Speaking to the Press on Monday March 17, John Darko who is a member of the Governing Council stated that the work of the committee will include a recommendation that will prevent such occurrences in future.

He said, “the Council is in the process of constituting an investigative committee to unravel the circumstances and rationale behind the unrest. The terms of reference for the committee will also include suggesting ways to prevent such unfortunate occurrences in the future”.

He also added thatthe Council is ready to receive any petition from affected staff for the review of the decision taken against them.

Mr Darko further added that the Council will not relent on its efforts to addressing the concerns of all who are troubled by the chaos in a bid to end the current stalemate.

“Based on the appeals we have received from well-meaning Ghanaians and other personalities, the Governing Council wants to state that, for the affected staff, those who wish to petition this council regarding either, their dismissal, termination or demotion, will be received. We will submit it to the appropriate boards and sub-committee for consideration. And for such cases, we will only take it on case by case basis,” he said.

The University was shut down indefinitely after the chaos that led to the death of one person as well as some hospitalised.

The police were able to arrest some of the students engaged in the violence demonstration.

Dr. Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai, the UTAG Secretary at the University while speaking to the press said there was an urgent need for things to be normalized at the University so academic work can resume.

“Our vision as UTAG especially when it come to UEW is that the management did not adhere to the call of the president because if within this spate of time, less than 6 months thereabout and you have all these kind of things happening, it is not right,” he said.

The Central Regional Minister, Kwamina Duncan on Thursday justified the Regional Security Council’s decision to shut down the University of Education, Winneba, saying the move was to prevent further destruction of the institution’s properties.

There have been calls for the Vice Chancellor of the school, Prof. Afful Broni to resign.

The demand was also accompanied by calls for lecturers and other staff who have been sacked to be immediately reinstated.

The situation led to series of protests by students, including a violent one last Thursday that resulted in the destruction of several school properties, forcing the police to fire tear gas to disperse the angry student protesters who were at the time pelting stones at the security officers.