The Kpando Divisional Police Command in the Volta Region has arrested some eleven persons in connection with the violent clashes between students of the Kpando Senior High School and the Kpando Technical Institute.
The eleven persons include five students from Kpando Technical Institute, five from the Kpando Senior High School and the other, a past student of the Kpando Senior High School.
The students who are currently being held by the Kpando Divisional Police are expected to be arraigned tomorrow [Friday].
[contextly_sidebar id=”VZMSKLZUvj7dqfZ6D11jf5y9pBjSZyp6″]Speaking to Citi News, the Kpando Divisional Commander of Police, Chief Superintendent Thomas Tindow, said “the students will be charged with rioting and causing unlawful damage to school property.”
He further indicated that, “the headmasters of the two schools, thus, the Kpando Technical Institute and the Kpando Senior High School helped to identify them, leading to their arrest”.
Students of the Kpando Technical Institute launched a series of attacks on the Kpando Senior High School after they were reported to have been denied access to participate in a jam organized in town by students of the Kpando Senior High School.
Properties damaged included a school van, the boys’ dormitory, a section of the fence wall and the school’s sign board.
Some female students of Kpando Secondary School were rushed to the Margarete Marquart Hospital following the attacks, which is the second in recent times on the mixed school.
The two rival schools are only separated by a major road. Kpantec has a large contingent of male students but with a few females, whereas Kpansec is a completely mixed school.
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By: Kwame Botchway/citifmonline.com/Ghana