Managing Election- Relation Violence for Democratic Stability in Ghana in the country. The status of the officially recognized youth movement did not sit well with other groups like the National 148 Union of Ghana Students(NUGS), which felt that other youth groups had been weakened by the Nkrumah government through its actions. After the overthrow of the Nkrumah regime in 1966, the YPM was seen as a movement that could undermine the state, hence its dissolution. Some policies were also put in place with a view to harnessing the potential of the youth. A National Service Corps was founded in 1970 by the Busia-led Progress Party(PP) government to channel the efforts of the youth towards community and national development. In the ensuing years, NUGS became the most visible embodiment of youth involvement in the country's politics. The student body made its voice heard on critical matters of national importance, especially those that directly or indirectly affected its members. In 1971, for example, when the Busia government abolished the provision of free meals and allowances, and instead introduced a Student Loans Scheme Act, NUGS publicly voiced its opposition. A series of student demonstrations hit various campuses in the country in protest against the policy. The student body, which had welcomed Ghana's return to civilian rule in 1969 under the Busia government, was soon to welcome Busia's overthrow in 1972 in a military coup led by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. The new military government of Acheampong reversed the Busia policies that students had protested against. It also enjoyed considerable support from NUGS for some of its revolutionary policies, including the popular yentua government posture by which the country was to repudiate its external debts. 148 NUGs was formed in 1959(Whyte Kpessa, 2007) as a student group but this had been preceded by some form of students activism in the late 1940s and the 1950s. 315