The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) was reported by the Talking Drums of May 20, 1985 as calling on the PNDC regime to take necessary steps to return the country to constitutional rule.

The students’ call has come at a time when the people of Ghana have lost hope in the Rawlings’ regime. NUGS is one of the major pressure groups which identified itself publicly with Rawlings on June 4, 1979.

When Rawlings came to power in June 1979 he was ably supported by the NUGS. The students made Rawlings so popular and could not even see anything wrong with his murderous acts.

When on December 31, 1981 Rawlings staged his coup, the NUGS was again the major pressure group to declare its support for Rawlings’ regime.

And now the students have come to realize that Rawlings cannot rule the country as the masses expect so he should hand over to competent people elected through the ballot box.

Students cannot be in a society where education is no more a right because most of them come from poor homes.

It is now apparent that the students have regretted the precious time they wasted in supporting the unsupportable PNDC regime and defending the indefensible policies of a regime that cannot boast of a single achievement in its three years

K.S. Owusu-Appiah, Raubach, W. Germany