PHOTO: Roof of AMEZU blown off
Monrovia, Liberia- The African Methodist Episcopal Zion University (AMEZU) on Benson Street as one of the victims of Tuesday night’s violent rainstorm that hit the Liberian capital and other parts, as Garmah Never Lomo reports.
It has caused damage to the office of records, admission, testing and evaluation on the third floor of the University’s Benson Street campus.
The school has launched an SOS appeal for help to the Liberian government and other humanitarian organizations.
Being a religious school with no sponsorship from anywhere, AMEZU administration is calling on the government and other humanitarian organizations to urgently come to their aid in helping to repair the damaged roof.
AMEZU Vice President, Dr. Professor Richardson Koffa Kloh wants the Disaster Management Agencies including institutions responsible for education in Liberia to give some assistance.
Normal academic activities have been disrupted at the school’s Benson Street campus.
Dr. Koffa Kloh said the rainstorm disaster has brought serious setback to the institution’s operations.
The violent storm occurred at the time the institution is completing its final exams for the first semester, according to the Vice president.
AMEZU offers degrees in Accounting, Management, Economics, Banking and Finance, Demography and Public Administration with seven colleges in total; namely: Wilfred E. Clarke College of Criminal Justice Administration and Law Enforcement, Andrew Cartwright College of Business and Public Administration, Reuben L. Speaks College of Liberal Arts, Bishop Warren M. Brown College of Divinity, Alicia Smith-Lartey College of Education, College of General Studies awarding degrees in continuing Education and College of Agriculture awarding Associate of Arts degree in Agriculture. Except for the College of Agriculture, the University currently offers Bachelors Degrees in all of its programs.
It has enrolled over 30,000 students and graduated over 10,000 students. This unfortunate situation came at the time the University’s President Dr. Emmanuel Johnson is out of the country seeking support for the institution as well.