KNUST to rehabilitate roads
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has rolled out a programme to rehabilitate its roads to ease vehicular traffic on campus and its surrounding communities.
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The communities to benefit from the project being assisted by the Department of Urban Roads include Ayeduase, Boadi and Bomso, where some academic and research facilities of the university are located and a number of students live.
Some of the major roads at the university to be rehabilitated are the Ring Road-Botanical Garden, Horticulture Department-Boadi, Hall Six-Agricultural Engineering Department and Administration-Bomso.
Interacting with journalists in Kumasi at the weekend, Professor William Otoo Ellis, the Vice-Chancellor, described the current traffic situation as unfavourable and explained that the objective of the project was to create more access because of the growing population on campus and the surrounding communities.
Prof. Ellis said plans were afoot to upgrade the KNUST Police Station to a district status to help improve the general security situation in the area.
In that connection, he said, two container police stations had been established at Ayeduase and Kotei with arrangements being made to set up another one at Bomso to help check the persistent armed robbery attacks on students residing in those areas.
The university, Prof Ellis indicated, would supply the stations with four motorcycles to facilitate community policing in the area.
"These container police stations are primarily meant to protect our students but will also cater for the beneficiary communities under our corporate social responsibility concept," the Vice-Chancellor explained.
Touching on the university's expansion and development plan, he said an automated green house had been built for agricultural research and production purposes, while a multi-million-cedi six-storey building being constructed at Kwabenya to serve as its Accra City Campus was expected to be ready for use in May, this year.
Professor Ellis further disclosed that construction works were progressing on a new three-storey teaching hospital near Boadi meant to support the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in the training of more doctors. A veterinary teaching hospital is also being built in the same area.
The Vice-Chancellor said a number of projects, including teaching facilities, a guest house, and a conference centre initiated by the Andam administration, had either been completed or were nearing completion.