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Academia shouldn't be too expensive to afford! Not these times, not when Covid-19 has crippled our financial strength. If we can't afford tertiary education in our own soil, then I guess, taxes shouldn't be paid in our own soil! "We" I mean, students, parents, fees payers, The Education Ministry and any other body that matter in Ghanaian academic enclave should oppose this increment, as a matter of fact, it should be decrease rather! How did we reach this far? A far where: Students must cry to be heard? Students must hold placards in demonstration to be seen? Parents and fees payers must bleed to pay fees? And please I don't have to write long before u share this! #TertiaryFeesMustFall #GIJstudentsMatter

The SRC of every institution is the embodiment of the entire student populace. It gives a voice to the voiceless students and spearheads the affairs of student concern. But over the years, the relevance of the SRC continues to sink like a fish that desires to see the end of it's place of domicile. Student activism like any form of activism encapsulates the burning desire to keep the SRC on its toes and to hold the SRC executives accountable. It is however sad that sometimes, students take activism for their own parochial interests. Some become activists after a fall out with an SRC executive only to be chastising and mudslinging whatever good the SRC is doing. It's important to propose that the dire hard student activists who have the interest of students at heart should sometimes direct their efforts by channelling their grievances to the appropriate authorities rather always playing political fanfare with any little issue that arises within the enclaves of student leaders...