Residents of the Commonwealth Hall at the University of Ghana are contesting management's decision to suspend their Hall Master and Senior Tutor over the recent chaos between the hall and the Mensah Sarbah Hall.

The peeved students, clad in red attires have converged at the forecourt of the all-male hall to demand the reinstatement of their Hall Master and Senior Tutor with immediate effect.

In a press statement dated August 15, 2022, management explained that the suspended Hall officers failed to ensure that the offenders who reside in the hall were reported to the appropriate authorities.

“The Hall Master and Senior Tutor of Commonwealth Hall have not exhibited sufficient willingness and ability to hold students of the hall accountable for their actions in the recent violent clashes. These officers should therefore, in the interim, be relieved of their duties while management works with the security services to investigate the clashes, and works towards finding lasting solutions to the tensions between students of the two halls," part of the statement read.

But Commonwealth Hall residents have described the decision taken by the University Council at its meeting on Thursday, 11th August 2022, as unfair.

“We think the authorities took a cursory look at the issue. They did not pay much attention to it. For sanity to prevail and for peace to come back, the right thing must be done,” one of the residents told the media.

The residents are also against the decision to review the composition of Commonwealth, an all male residency and Mensah Sarbah Halls, a residency housing both males and females.

Officers of the Ghana Police Service have been deployed to the school to prevent any uprising.

On August 5 and 6, 2022, students of Commonwealth and Mensah Sarbah Halls engaged in a fisticuff which led to the destruction of a private vehicle. The vehicle was set ablaze by one of the factions.

It is currently unknown to management what may have prompted students to pelt stones and other objects at each other and in the process, vandalize properties belonging to the school.

At the end of the meeting, the Council have also decided that "Commonwealth Hall is to be surcharged with the cost of damages to property in the vicinity of Mensah Sarbah Hall, in the recent clashes."

Also, Junior Common Room (JCR) Presidents of Commonwealth and Mensah Sarbah Halls will be referred to the Disciplinary Committee for Junior Members, for their actions and inactions leading to and after the riots.