According to an eyewitness, Mr. Abdallah Sadique, the deceased, a biochemistry student resident at Savanna Hall climbed a mango tree on campus to pluck some mangoes but was unfortunately electrocuted by a high-tension electric cable.

“It was around 5:30pm on Saturday evening that I [Abdallah Sadique] went to pray at the mosque and met the deceased [Fusenu Mohammed] plucking mangoes with a metal rod from the ground.

He [the deceased] later told me that he was feeling lazy to cook or go and buy food so he wants to climb the tree and plugckmangoes.

Mr. Sadique said, the deceased went ahead to climb the tree with the metal rod in hand trying to pluck the mangoes.

“Right after the prayer, I heard a sound coming from within the tree so I looked up and only to realize that the deceased was suspending on the branches of the tree”

The eyewitness said he suspected the deceased was electrocuted by the metal rod which accidentally touch the high tension electric cable while plucking the mangoes.

Fusenu Mohammed Amin Saha was pronounced dead on arrival at the Navrongo War Memorial Hospital.

By: Frederick Awuni/Citifmonline.com/Ghana

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According to her, a meeting held on Saturday 18th March by the Kassena-Nankana municipal director and the Regional director of education with management of the school, resolved to call back the suspended students after a series of deliberations.

[contextly_sidebar id=”uI4HuQgAuCkMF3r0BRHVkCWVpmzTvGoL”]Mrs. Yizura said all suspended final year students should report to school but must apologize and sign a bond of good behaviour.

“The suspended final year students are to report to the school on Monday, 20th March, 2017, not early than 10:00 am. They are to come with application letters for re-admission and come with only their parents or guardians, we don’t want siblings, friends or borrowed parents.”

“When they come, they will sign a bond to be of  good behavior and their parents will also sign as witnesses, then they will write a letter of apology to the municipal director of education Mrs. Anne Kye-eebo,  headmistress of the school Mrs. Francisca Yizura, staff, the prefectural board and the Student Representative council (SRC).”

This was approved by the  Regional director of education, Mrs. Sabina Obeng, Municipal director of education Mrs. Anne Kye-eebo, and management of NAVASCO.

Mrs. Yizura admonished students in second cycle institutions across the country to follow due procedure in getting their grievances addressed but not resort to threats of vandalism.

On Tuesday, March 14, the Municipal Director of education for Kassena-Nankana, Anne Kye-eebo, suspended all final years students of the school for gross misconduct and insubordination leaving the affected students to search for their own accommodation.

While some sought for refuge in nearby public places, others stayed with their relatives and friends in Navrongo whilst writing their West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination(WASSCE).

Alleged rape case

Unconfirmed reports were that some female students were raped at public places by some community members in their quest to seek shelter in the night after the suspension.

But reacting to the matter, headmistress of the school, Mrs.Yizura, said it will be investigated when the students finally report.

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According to the District Director of Education for Kassena-Nankana Municipal assembly, Kye-eebo Anne, the final year students exhibited acts of indiscipline by threatening to cause mayhem.

Speaking to Citi News she said, “the final year students refused to eat their breakfast, they want to take their food to their dormitories, they were improper, they don’t want to see their teachers and prefects. So the matter was reported to me by the school headmistress.”

So considering the tension in the school at the time we asked all final year students to go home and be called back to school when the situation is calm”

Madam Kye-eebo indicated that even though reasons for the student’s behavior was not known,the management will urgently investigate and resolve the matter.

She added that their schedule for West Africa Secondary School Examination (WASSCE) will be communicated to them.

But according to some of the sacked students who spoke off record said,the visual Art students were denied breakfast at the time they were taking a WASSCE practical test.

They explained that their colleagues were refused their breakfast whilst writing their paper on the principle of ‘No food is leaving the dining hall’

They added that efforts made to send food outside of the dining hall to their colleague visual arts students to also eat after their practical paper was refused by the dining hall masters.

“So we (all final year students) decided that if our colleague visual arts students were denied breakfast, we won’t eat lunch.”

They stated that the headmistress of the school, Francisca Yizura, together with the district director of education Anne Kye-eebo pleaded with them to eat their lunch whilst their grievances were addressed but that failed.

Students especially the females from outside of the region expressed worry at the decision taken by the school authorities because of the challenges associated with accommodation in the town.

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