Legon: Investigations underway on how a 1st year student drowned during swimming

Posted on February 1, 2022February 1, 2022
by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Police investigations are underway on how a first-year student of the University of Ghana drowned in the university’s swimming pool last Saturday [Jan 29, 2022].

A statement dated January 30, 2022, signed and issued by the Director of Public Affairs of UG, Elizier T. Ameyaw-Buronyah said the University is liaising with the police to investigate the matter.

“The family of the student has been notified and the body has since been deposited at the University Hospital while further investigations take place.

Some reports said the student drowned after he attempted to swim at a depth of 21 feet in the pool.

Below is a copy of the statement:

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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