Varsity students selling rooms

Some continuous students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) are reported to be over-burdening fresh students to the university’s campus by sub-letting their rooms to them whiles others are selling beds to them on contract basis.

These are happening amidst the rocketing cost of tertiary education in the country, according to The Evening News, which also carries that its investigations have revealed that the rooms were leased for between ?600,000 and ?1 million whiles the beds were sold between ?400,000 and ?600,000.

It was also realised that the fresh students paid for both the rooms and beds for a considerable number of two semesters depending on one’s bargaining power. However, while some freshmen and women are paying without hesitation, others have great difficulty settling the payments.

The paper says its information indicated also that the continuous students especially those at level 400 are the brains behind these illegal business because they are left with some few months to complete their various courses.