Students Impound Taxi Cap Loaded with 'stolen' school food Items

The night shift security personnel of St. Paul's Senior High Technical School in Kukurantumi, in the Abuakwa North Municipality and the students of the school, has impounded a taxi cap with registration number AS 3074-15 loaded with school food items yesterday May 30, 2021.

The alleged stolen food items were packed in an Opel Caravan taxi by the matron and her accomplices, but an Officer narrated that the matron did not join the taxi driver, so when the security on duty stopped the taxi and was interrogating the driver, the students sensing a foul play rushed unto the scene and hurriedly deflated the four tyres after the driver has escaped their wrath.

According to him, the students went on rampages and a chaotic situation followed after the matron of the school was transporting alleged stolen food from the school’s kitchen.

He continued that some of the students were armed with stones and sticks, and surrounded the Opel taxi cap and deflated all the four tyres.

According to Officer One, security personnel of the School, the students themselves defray the tyres of the taxi cap and sent all the stolen item's to the Kukurantumi police station for official complaints about the incidents.

He stated that the police then proceeded to the school with the students to tow the taxi cab to the police station after the security on duty has impounded the taxi together with the students for the police to access it.

Adding that suspected stolen food items was made up of nine buckets of groundnuts paste, one bag of millet, four boxes of tin tomatoes, three bags of 25kg rice, three bags of 25kg flour, two bags of 25kg sugar and one large gallon of cooking oil, he recounted.

William Ofori Akwaboa Eastern Regional Correspondent