By Samuel Flomo Jr.
A wave of outrage swept across the Bong County Technical College (BCTC) on Thursday, November 28, 2025.
The situation doubled when senior students from the Health Sciences Department staged a forceful protest too, accusing the administration of “deliberately denying them access to clinical outreach.”
The outreach is a mandatory requirement for their medical training.
The students described the situation as a direct academic attack, and a reckless betrayal by those responsible for guiding their education journey.
They accused BCTC’s refusal to send nursing students for clinical outreach as not only unacceptable, “but representing a dangerous collapse in the institution’s commitment to produce qualified health professionals.”
The tension stemmed from months of unanswered concerns, ignored petitions, and the “arrogant refusal of the Health Sciences Department Chair, Mrs. Folo B. Sonah Siakor, to approve the students outreach activities.”
Some of them said, despite numerous engagements, Madam Siakor, insisted there was no provision for clinical outreach in the department’s catalog; a claim the students condemned as a cover-up for “administrative failure.”
The aggrieved students said the outreach program has always been part of their academic journey.
They labeled the department’s new position as a “deliberate effort to undermine their practical training, thereby, risking their ability to function as competent healthcare providers.”
They further accused the administration of attempting to graduate them as classroom nurses with no real-world experience, warning that such academic negligence could endanger the lives of patients. With placards raised high, as they chanted anti outreach slogans that echoed across the campus, the students vowed to continue their action until the administration resolves an “unforgivable academic injustice.”
Meanwhile, BCTC administration, initially refused to comment, thus deepening suspicion that the leadership was intentionally dodging responsibility, while pressure continues to mount.
BCTC administration later promised to hold a press conference, but did not say when the conference would be held.
