WA CAMPUS SRC ELECTIONS TOMORROW (PAGE 11)

THE Students Representative Council (SRC) elections which were to have taken place last week at the Wa campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS), have been rescheduled for tomorrow Saturday, April 19, 2008.
The decision was taken by the University authorities at the Wa campus in collaboration with the Upper West Regional Police Command following the violence which marred the previous elections last Saturday.
In the ensuing confusion some of the aggrieved students started throwing stones, which destroyed some ballot boxes and ballots cast.
This happened when the students expressed their displeasure at the decision of members of the UDS electoral commission to discontinue the election after darkness had set in and rescheduled casting of votes for the following day (Sunday).
Some of the students who spoke to the Daily Graphic expressed disappointment at the manner in which members of the EC handled the elections and said the action of the Electoral Commission (EC) gave rise to suspicion that the elections were going to be rigged.
They, however, expressed confidence in the Wa municipal office of the EC, which had now been given the mandate to take oversight responsibility to ensure a smooth, fair and transparent election.
The Municipal Director of the EC, Mr Lucas Yiryei, said his outfit did not take part in the previous election but rather it supplied the EC of the UDS with the necessary materials.
He further assured the students of free, fair and peaceful elections, tomorrow.
For the second time, the Wa campus will assume the central SRC presidency of the university.
It would be recalled that the Daily Graphic in its April 14, 2008 edition, published a story in which students of the Wa campus of the UDS clashed with officials of the EC of the UDS over an electoral dispute.