Finally, the specific location of the under-construction campus of the Ghana Institute of Journalism at North Dzorwulu has been found and it doesn’t look good considering the fact that it has been under construction for at least a decade.
Pictures of the new site are making rounds on various social media platforms with a cross section of students expressing their dissatisfaction with the current state of works.
A view of the mammoth structure of the Ghana Institute of Journalism which is under construction
According to a student who visited the site and pleaded anonymity, the new campus, which will host the 12th congregation of the school, is not ready to receive families and well-wishers of students who will be graduating on Friday.
“The place is very dusty and doesn’t seem fit to hold Friday’s congregation. Your shoe can’t return the same after you’ve visited the site. However, the workers there are still getting the place ready for the graduation” he told legonconnect.com.
“…again, I doubt if the graduands are happy with the place. Taking of pictures there will be some way. The place is just like a desert” – he added.
Students of the nation’s premier communication school have over the years bemoaned the limited infrastructure that was available to them for effective teaching and learning.
The grounds that will host the 12th Congregation
At a recent durbar organised by management of the Institute to establish a healthy relationship between themselves and students, the Students’ Representative Council was advised to find strategic means of drawing the attention of relevant authorities to assist in the completion of the school’s project at the North Dzorwulu site.
The Ghana Institute of Journalism, which will celebrate its 60 years of existence in 2019, received a charter to become a fully fledged university in 2009.
The school is currently located at Ridge near the Accra International Press Centre.
It has few lecture halls but no hostel facility, thus, its students are compelled to go for lectures from home or depend on services of private hostel facilities which are said to be expensive.
Whereas some has asserted that the plan by the school’s management is a smart move to get public attention and perhaps sympathy to help complete the project, others believe the motive for hosting the congregation ceremony at the new site will backfire.