The University of Cape Coast has concluded investigations into the clashes that resulted in the stabbing of three students in March this year during a hall week celebration by the Oguaa hall residents.
22 students have since been fingered and rusticated by authorities for their alleged roles in the clash which resulted in the destruction of university properties including cars, with several others sustaining various degrees of injuries .
Three others were also stabbed in the melee resulting in serious impairments for some victims.
The 22 who were found culpable per the university’s investigations and statutes are to serve an academic ban ranging from a period of 2 to 4 academic semesters .
The 22; made up of 5 females and 17 male students, have since been handed their letters and have been warned not to go closer to the university until they have served their ban .
Nine of the students are in their final year , another 9 are in their third year while two others are in their second and first levels respectively .
Majority of them are executives of the Atlantic hall as well as organisers of the ATL hall week celebrations.
They were found guilty of flouting school rules by inviting students from the Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana and the Unity hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, who reportdly unleashed attacks on residents of the Oguaa Hall who were having their Hall Week Celebrations and destroyed items in the process.
The biggest casualty was the hall president of Atlantic Hall (ATL) Enoch Abeiku Bart Plange Tawiah for failing to show leadership in preventing the melee
