Court Orders Commonwealth Hall To Halt ‘In-Out-Out-Out’ Residential Policy

The Commercial Division of the Accra High Court has ordered the management of the University of Ghana to halt the implementation of a new residential policy for continuing Commonwealth Hall students.

According to the order, the hall is to maintain its current residential status until the final determination of a case before the court.

“The status quo of the residential status of all continuing students of Commonwealth Hall, University of Ghana, should be maintained as it used to be before the 26th October 2022 decision was taken.

“This Order is to last until the final determination of the case. I order accordingly,” the order said.

The order was obtained after eight Commonwealth residents filed an application for an interlocutory injunction on January 16, 2023, to prevent hall authorities from implementing a policy allowing only first-year students to reside at the hall.

This new residential policy indicates that continuing students are supposed to occupy other halls apart from the Commonwealth and Mensah Sarbah halls.

Meanwhile, police arrested 18 people on Tuesday after a rumpusover the policy  on the school’s campuy.

This came after some university students tussled with some heavily armed police officers at the entrance of the Commonwealth Hall.

Security personnel at the forecourt of the Commonwealth Hall had prevented some aggrieved former occupants as they tried to enter the hall.

The students insisted they had secured an interlocutory injunction to reside in the hall and faced the police in a heated confrontation.