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The Legon Observer
September 15,1978
Sir—May I seize this opportunity of your return to welcome you back to print. Indeed many were those who missed your pages especially during the turbulent days between December 1977 and April 1978, for obvious reasons.
It is hoped that your return will be a sweet one with your usual analytical, positive and constructive criticisms in the interest of peace and stability in this our dear country.
It appears clear that he who cleverly prevented you from business, and thus from contributing to the shaping of policies, has realised his mistake since whoever lacks competent advice, or ignores it, is always overtaken by events.
At the same time, please permit me to take this belated opportunity to extend a word of welcome and congratulations to our gallant University students who are back to their various campuses.
Never in the history of Ghana have students sacrificed so much to call a spade a spade, thereby saving the whole country from false political indoctrination and maladministration. The sense of judgement and the unity of purpose with which they executed their business was admirable. They proved beyond every doubt that they were not as immature and of little minds as people who could hardly understand them thought they were.
It is the hope and wish of many people that now that they are back, they will in no distant future revive their spirit of nationalism and patriotism with practical demonstrations such as were seen of them in the early post-13th January days, and also that they will maintain the respectable image which they have carved for themselves by avoid- ing the temptations of flouting authorities unnecessarily inside or outside their campuses.
To both the Legon Observer and the students of our Universities I say, welcome. Let the torch continue to burn so that the truth will always stand.
King Bruce Boateng, Accra.
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