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Wa Campus
of UDS still battling with accommodation
Wa, July 14, Ghanadot/GNA – Eight years after the
establishment of the Faculty of Integrated Development
Studies (FIDS) of the University of Development Studies at
Wa, students are still battling with residential
accommodation.
While accommodation provided by the university could only
cater for about 500 out of over 4,000 students, rates of
private houses are also moving astronomically, making life
unbearable for students.
All these came out when the Ghana News Agency (GNA)
interacted with students on their living conditions at the
FIDS Campus.
The interviews also revealed that although two new hostel
blocks on
the campus were completed and would be put to use this
academic year only about 500 out of 4,300 students on the
campus would be accommodated.
Worst still, some of the contractors who were working on the
hostels
have abandoned their projects without any formal excuse or
permission.
Dr Daniel Bagah, Dean of Students at the Faculty, who spoke
to the GNA said although there was inadequate accommodation,
the university authority was liaising with landlords in the
municipality to ensure that students were accommodated.
He said students who wanted accommodation on the campus
would have to pay 180.00 Ghana cedis per bed for the old
facilities and 230.00 Ghana cedis per student for the new
ones.
Dr Bagah could however, not give the mode of selection as to
how students were to be accommodated on the campus as “we
are yet to meet and decide on the method.” He appealed to
students to apply to the university for consideration.
He also appealed to private developers in the country to
consider putting up hostel facilities at the various
campuses of the university to enable them to accommodate a
lot more students.
Meanwhile, some of the students the GNA spoke to have
expressed dissatisfaction at some of the private
accommodations in the municipality.
Marcel onus Bayuo, a Level 300 student told the GNA that
while some of the houses had no potable water, most of them
were also without toilets and even bathrooms thereby
exposing them to all kinds of dangerous reptiles outside
their compounds.
He called on the university authority to expedite action on
various projects to alleviate the plight of students on
campus.
“Most of the houses are also very far from campus which
compel us to either buy motorbike or bicycles, further
exerting more pressure on both students and parents,” a
student told GNA
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