Legon SRC secedes from NUGS

Accra, April 25, GNA - The confusion on the students' front took on a new dimension when the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Ghana, Legon on Tuesday said it had seceded from the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS).

A statement signed by Lom Nuku Ahlijah and Srem-Sai Justice, President and Vice President of the Legon SRC, respectively, said the Council would remain in secession and would have nothing to do with NUGS, until it improved conditions to meet the standards of the SRC. "Such conditions shall include but not limited to an appreciable level of maturity and focus to be determined by the General Assembly - the highest decision making body of the SRC", the statement said. It said the decision, among other resolutions were taken at an emergency meeting by the General Assembly on Monday April 24, 2006. The statement said the Council observed that chief offices within the NUGS, had been used as tools to perpetuate cronyism to satisfy parochial interests, often to the detriment of the larger Union. It alleged that arrogance, disrespect for official structures and basic rules guiding bureaucracy in any civilised organisation, had become the mainstay of the Union.

The sovereignty of SRC -Legon, the statement said, had not been duly observed by NUGS, and cited the public statement issued by the Union that threatened and interfered in the work of the Electoral Commission and Court of Justice of the SRC.

It said such acts cast a slur on the integrity of the SRC and its internal structures and further threatened the aim, purposes and integrity of the founding principles of the Union. In a related development, Mr Anuga Fortunate, Press Secretary of the SRC, has resigned from his position.