Students and staff members of Tamale Technical University are calling for government intervention as they received a violent attack from members of the Ambaria Islamic set in Tamale.This violence attack was due to a land dispute between the Ambaria Islamic and the Tamale Technical University which the police say has been a subject to court since 2010.
According to sources, an audio was released by a senior member of Ambaria on social media, stating that the legal processing of the issue at the court and the restriction imposed on the two parties were taking long time, and calling all followers of Ambaria for the force eviction of students and teachers of the Tamale technical university college.
Ambaria Islamic faithful, assisted by thugs, teachers and students of the Ambaria senior high school, acting in response to the audio recording, mass up at campus of the university, attacked the students, teachers and workers of the university, beat them up, drove them out of both hostel and classrooms and forcefully occupies in.
Students who were victims of the incident complains that, they were threatened with cutlasses to leave and that, any attempt to resume their lecture rooms will cause the outpouring of blood which even the government cannot intervene. To the students, all they need is access to their lecture rooms and hostels for effect teaching and learning, and are calling for government’s help.
The principal of the university was not left out in the brutalities as he was left with a broken nose and his dress torn into pieces. The principal said he will not accept the force eviction and occupation of the university properties and wants authorities to intervene quickly before any further escalation.
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