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NPP Youth Organizer, Nana Boakye has commended the government for dissolving the Governing Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

A new 7-member Interim Council has been tasked by government to with immediate effect, find solutions to impasse at the University following a violent protest by the students on campus on Monday, October 22, 2018.

Government has also directed that the university be reopened within fourteen days to enable academic work to continue.

Speaking to sit-in host Nana Yaw Kesseh on Peace FM's 'kokrokoo' programme, Nana Boakye noted that the decision to dissolve the Council is the "best" because in order to find lasting solution to the conflict between the students and the University authorities, an interim Board had to be set up.

He also fired at the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) of KNUST over their statement to the government regarding the interim Committee.

A statement signed by its President, Prof. Eric K. Forkuo, said the lecturers will advise themselves should "the government insist on going forward with its interim arrangement".

UTAG says the dissolution of the Council “frowns on the autonomy of the University and smacks of political interference.”

Nana Boakye has advised UTAG not to take sides and make conclusions on the issue.

He asked what specific role UTAG played when the students began agitating over the decisions by the Governing Council which resulted in Monday's incident where several properties were destroyed by the student protesters to register their displeasure.

The NPP National Youth Organizer believed the interim Committee would help solve the issue, stressing "we should give the students some sense of dignity. We must respect them. But in the process, if somebody should lose his job; so be it".