McBash Media

The students body of our noble institution would be heading to polls to once again vote and elect their students leaders who would be staring the affairs of the students for the next academic year. The saying is very true, when red leaves fall,  it gives chance to the green ones to emerge.  It's a constitutional mandate to conduct elections at the end of every administration's tenure.  Conducting of this elections is not what my thoughts are about to tackle,  but the way in which the elections are conducted is what is causing a grave concern to me. In fact,  there's no gain saying that the unhealthy practices  where by candidates vying for various portfolios are voted for not based on merits but rather based on other factors is a phenomenon which has led to the abysmal performance of our various representatives at the national level and even narrowing it down to students politics on our various tertiary institutions and ours is not an exception. I have noted wit

The premises of University of education Winneba -Kumasi campus have been invaded with banners and flyers on both sides of the school compound, the banners and posters have either been nailed against a tree or wall or have been placed on walls, mirrors and walking paths. The case of Kumasi is even worst when you see some students placing their posters on bowls and books of students. This is the second semester of the academic year which also doubles as an election year for various educational institution to take over from outgoing leaders, even though the ban on campaigning have not been lifted yet but most students have started informal campaigns thereby meeting and talking to students. In COLTEK campus you can see that all persons who have interest for various leadership positions are busing welcoming students back to campus on their banners and posters I talked about. Some write their names only, others write their names and classes, others even go the extend of writing their