Student’s robbery claims are untrue – UCC PRO

Management of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) have debunked reports of robbery attacks on students on campus yesterday, October 12, 2020.

Several videos circulating on social media showed some students flee from lecture halls amidst claims that robbers had attacked some of their mates.

The students, as a result, took to social media with the hashtag #UCCLivesMatter to demand that the authorities beef up campus security.

However Public Relations Officer of UCC Maj. Rtd Kofi Baah Bentum says their investigations revealed nothing like that happened and he believes it was a prank.

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Speaking in an interview with Accra based Joy News, He said, “We have done our checks and investigations and can’t find anything that indicates there was a robbery attack. These things happen occasionally, people do same to the ambulance service and tell them there is fire, they get there and nothing is happening. Somebody just put on a student platform that armed robbers had come around so they should take cover. So out of panic students started running helter-skelter and in the cause of the stampede we recorded one casualty who is receiving treatment at the hospital and nothing really happened”.

The management of University has been in contact with the Health Directorate of the school and the Security section, they confirmed a student got injured as a result of the rush out but as for the robbery no student has come out to says he or she was robbed.

Fact checks done by the management on some of the videos seen dates back to 2014, 2015 and 2017.

The University, however, says they will brief the media after concluding all investigations