Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong has subjected the country’s topmost university to be facing infrastructural deficit despite the school’s numerous positive strives undertaken to bridge its infrastructural inadequacy over the years.
Speaking at the second session of the university’s 56th congregation, Prof. Nyarko Boampong highlighted that amid the tremendous infrastructural works himself and successive Vice Chancellors before him have undertaken, there are still a lot of work to be done.
He stressed that although there are a number of new projects ongoing with the hope that they will become inhabitable soon, the university still faces deficit in infrastructural, particularly on student’s residential facilities.
The Vice Chancellor recounted that as a result of this deficiencies, most students of the university are accommodated at private hotels around campus and within communities surrounding the university.
He also noted that due to this, there has been high incidents of theft and armed robbery cases on students.
According to Prof. Nyarko Boampong, this unfortunate occurrences have the potential of undermining the university’s collective effort at ensuring the safety and security of its students over the fact that the tertiary institution at the moment has limited residential facilities to accommodate all the students who apply to study at its main campus.
Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong added that as part of the university’s effort and commitment in resolving this challenge, the school invited some stakeholders and private companies, some of whom signed a memorandum of understanding with the university to provide residential facilities on campus but all to no avail.
He said that the university, however, appears determined to construct residential facilities to accommodate all its students by working with the UCC branch of the Ghana University’s Staff Supernuation Scheme.
