Staff of the Nurses Training College (NTC), Ho, on Tuesday staged a peaceful demonstration to protest the continued occupation of some of the College’s infrastructure by the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) at Dave, a suburb in the Municipality.

Mr. James Awudi, the Convener of the demonstration, said the action was intended to draw public attention to what he described as a long-standing issue that had affected the institution and the welfare of its staff for several years.

Addressing the media during the protest, Mr. Awudi explained that some properties belonging to the Nurses Training College were temporarily handed over to UHAS in 2012 by the late President, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, to serve as incubator facilities, when the university was newly established.

The arrangement was that the facilities would be returned to the College once UHAS moved to its permanent campus, but more than a decade later, the properties had not been handed back.

The facilities, he said, were originally constructed to support the operations of the College and provide accommodation and teaching space for staff and students.

He listed the affected facilities as staff flats, which had been converted into student hostels by UHAS, lecture halls belonging to the College, three-bedroom self-contained bungalows meant for the principal, offices for staff,f and the College library.

Mr. Awudi said staff of the College had,d over the years, pursued several peaceful and diplomatic channels to resolve the issue, including writing letters and petitions to relevant authorities, but had not received a satisfactory response.

“While we, the rightful owners of these facilities, are struggling to accommodate our staff and secure lecture halls for our students, UHAS has converted the facilities into hostels and is generating Internally Generated Funds from them,” he said.

He noted that the situation had created serious accommodation challenges for staff and affected teaching and learning at the college.

Mr. Awudi said the demonstration was not intended to create hostility but to demand fairness and justice.

“Our demonstration today is not an act of hostility but a call for justice, fairness, and respect for institutional property and rights. We believe in dialogue and lawful processes,” he said.

He called on the Government of Ghana, the Volta Regional Minister, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, and other relevant authorities to intervene to ensure that the properties were returned to the Nurses Training College.

He appealed to the leadership of UHAS to engage with the college in good faith to resolve the issue amicably.

Receiving the petition from the demonstrators, Madam Ruth Xorladem Ayitteh, the Director of Works and Physical Development at UHAS, assured the staff that the concerns would be forwarded to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences for further action.

“I will submit this petition to the Vice-Chancellor, and it will be taken up and forwarded to the university council. I believe you will hear from them in due course,” she said.

The demonstration follows a similar protest in June 2025, when students of the School of Hygiene in Ho also demonstrated against UHAS, demanding the release of a one-storey facility at the university’s Dave Campus, which they claimed belonged to their institution and was needed to address infrastructure shortages and support accreditation requirements.

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