The Ghana National Union of Polytechnic Students (GNUPS) has taken a swipe at the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) for failing to resolve the leadership crisis that has rocked the union lately.
Currently, NUGS is suffering from serious leadership crisis similar to the happenings in neighbouring Ivory Coast with both Hamza Suhuyini kid brother of Radio Gold’s Alhassan Suhuyini and Anthony Abotsi-Afriyie who until recently President of NUGS, all claiming to be leading the student’s front but GNUPS holds the view that their colleagues in universities are setting bad examples.
At a news conference in Accra yesterday to comment on certain issues affecting the nation, Ebenezer Boakye-Agyemang, President of GNUPS said “the ongoing power struggle in the NUGS smack of the inefficiencies in most student groups with NUGS failing the litmus test themselves too”.
He said “what is happening in the NUGS is no different from what is going on in the Ivory Coast because NUGS has two personalities calling themselves presidents. It has become obvious that most student leaders walk the corridors of power and fail to keep a straight head.”
He said political infiltration in NUGS is a worrying situation and advised politicians to stay off students’ activism adding “GNUPS will however like to let NUGS be aware of our readiness to help them rid this from their system and further advise them to be weary of how they manage the affairs of the union.”
On the crises in the Ivory Coast, GNUPS called for circumspection in handling the crisis saying “the interest of the vulnerable such as women and children should always be taken into consideration before approaching the crisis. What is currently happening should be an issue of concern not only to Africa but the world at large. By Francis Yanchira
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