Students of the School of Hygiene in Accra are demonstrating over what they claim to be an abrupt eviction of students from the school’s hostel by the management on Tuesday, 8 September 2020.

According to the students, the Finance Ministry is trying to use the management of the school to break their ranks so as to emasculate their fight for their full allowances due them.

Speaking to Class News, the SRC President, Mr Freeheart Owusu Amoah, said the students will demonstrate until the errors are corrected on their clearance before they sit their final exams.

Mr Amoah said: “We are demonstrating against the school’s management at Korle Bu because the school’s management have brought out a letter that the students should vacate their hostel exactly 12 pm today; and yesterday, we went to receive the clearance at the Ministry of Finance of which they are supposed to pay the total population of 1,348 [students] but it indicated that it is paying 722 students and now the amount they are supposed to pay, nine million and ninety-six thousand cedis, they are paying two million and eighty-eight thousand six hundred cedis.

“We went to the Chief Director at the Ministry of Finance to inform him about the lapses in the clearance and he told us tomorrow, Wednesday, they have a budget meeting so they will raise those concerns there and now the ministry wants to use the school authority as a tool to evict the students from the school so that they can cheat us on the clearance.

“The letter the Ministry of Sanitation wrote to the Ministry of Finance, it captures those who have completed school in 2017, 2018, 2019 but when the clearance came, it has taken off those graduates and now it is indicating that it is paying only 10 months but if you’re in the final year now, you’re supposed to receive 30 months…that is the reason the students are demonstrating again…”