Odumase Krobo Commander Speaks After Student Stabs Security 

The Odumase-Krobo District Police Commander, Supt. Doris Akua Hukporti has said, the police have deployed officers to quell any possible reprisal at the Akro Senior Technical School in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality, in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Supt. Hukporti vehemently denied claims that the police officers assaulted some students in order to restore calm, but maintained that the situation is currently under control even though the deployment of her men will be at the post until sanity prevails, she stressed.

“The District police commander revealed further, that they managed to arrest one of the students to send a strong signal that what they were doing was wrong. However, that rather fueled their anger to pelt the school with more stones even though the student had been granted bail. 

"Upon our advice to the school head, the Management of the school, therefore, asked both teachers and students to go home".

 Background 

A visual arts student of Akro Senior High Technical School beat his teacher to a pulp for asking him and his colleagues to stop disturbing other students who were writing mock exams.

He also stabbed one of the school’s security officers in the chest when he was overpowered by security officials with the intention of handing him over to the police. The security officer is currently receiving treatment at the Atua Government Hospital.

A close source from a student indicates that a teacher who was assaulted was invigilating an ongoing mock examination in a new block, when the assailant-student and his playmates, who had finished writing their exam started disturbing, thereby distracting those who were still writing.

“The students who had finished their paper had come down and were chatting among themselves. He complained that they were distracting their colleagues. I don’t know how he confronted them, but, one of them got annoyed and pounced on him for telling them to keep quiet,” he explained.

He narrated, that the teacher was attacked by the student when he attempted to defend himself.

“Another student came to support the one who launched the first attack and they beat the teacher to a pulp. The embattled teacher reported to the school’s security for assistance. Adding that they attempted to arrest the student but he turned his anger on them".

The witness opined, that the security men managed to overpower the student. However, “when the student was released, he got angry and stabbed the security officer in the chest with a broken bottle .”

He noted that the school authorities on Friday caused the arrest of the student when he returned to the school with the mother to apologise for his actions.

“Immediately he came around, the police was called to whisk him away. That’s when we saw over 50 students wearing red armbands, carrying placards, pelting the authorities with stones while chanting and demanding that the police release their colleague,” he said.

A student who also didn’t want his name disclosed, said they staged a protest demanding the release of their arrested colleague from the police.  

William Ofori Akwaboa, Eastern Regional Correspondent