The Directorate has set up a five-member team to investigate the circumstances surrounding the violent demonstration which destroyed sections of dormitories, administrative block and classroom structures last Saturday.

[contextly_sidebar id=”oEtujJWbXo0cKbmWkzTsUrwkhffC2D8I”]The Upper West Regional Director of Education, Evans Kpebah, told Citi News that the team has just a week to submit a report for a swift action to be taken.

He said the membership of the Committee investigating the incident includes the police, the regional directorate of education, and other stakeholders.

The Upper West Regional Director, who visited the school on Sunday morning with a police team, said: “the situation is currently under control.”

He however declined to comment on the issues that triggered the demonstration, saying “I don’t want to tamper with the investigations.”

Possible cause of rioting

Citi News sources however say the students acted in protest against a disciplinary measure imposed on one of them, by a friend of a teacher of the school, who had accompanied the teacher to the premises that night.

Sources said the visiting friend of the teacher went as far as lashing the student for a “misbehaviour” [improper dressing], a situation that angered the students who reacted in a violent manner.

Other student riots

The most recent student riots occurred at Dabokpa Technical Institute in the Northern Region, and the Gyaama Pensan Senior High Technical School in the Kwabre East District  of the Ashanti Region.

In March 2017, Dabokpa Technical Institute in the Northern Region was temporarily shut down following the riot.

In December 2017, angry Gyaama Pensan Senior High Technical School students protested against the headmaster of the school, whom they say prevented them from partaking in extracurricular activities such as inter-school sports competition, quizzes and entertainment.

The students have vandalized school properties including the vehicle of the headmaster and his apartment.

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Four of the students are currently responding to treatment at the Aboaso Government Hospital after they sustained injuries in the course of the riot.

The angry students are protesting against the headmaster of the school, whom they say has prevented them from partaking in extra curricula activities such as inter-school sports competition, quizzes and entertainment.

The students have vandalized school properties including the vehicle of the headmaster and his apartment.

Police officers have been dispatched to the school to maintain law and order, whiles some worried parents are trooping to the school.

DCE for the Kwabre East District, Regional and District Directors of the Ghana Education, and school authorities, are locked up in a meeting over the matter.

Meanwhile, two out of four students who were admitted at the Aboaso Government Hospital after sustaining injuries in the riot have been discharged.

Two other female students are also responding to treatment at the hospital.

Principal Physician Assistant at the Aboaso Government hospital, Esther Akua Prempeh Konadu, told Citi News the students are out of any danger.

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They are Yaw Opoku, Nana Sampene, Owusu Ansah, Kwadwo Adjei, Asare Boateng, Doreen Osei and Mary Gyamfua.

They were on Friday put before the KMA Circuit Court charged with conspiring and causing riot.

The accused denied the offence and were each granted GHȼ20,000.00 bail with two sureties, to be justified.

[contextly_sidebar id=”34N2y9qOJXKSYHs3x55opntnM1iJRYcr”]They were ordered to make their next appearance on January 10.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Asumadu Okyere-Darko, told the court, presided over by Mrs. Mary Nsenkyire that the incident happened on September 02.

For some time now, there has been a land dispute between the people of Apagya and Akrofrom with the matter, pending before the Mampong High Court.

The prosecution said on the said day, the accused and other persons who managed to escape arrest, clad in red and carrying offensive weapons – cutlasses, sticks, stones and carbide cannon, blocked a section of the Apagya-Akrofrom road.

Amid the chanting and singing of war songs, they fired the carbide cannon, creating panic among road users.

ACP Okyere-Darko said police officers called in to restore order, were pelted with stones and one of them got hurt.

They however managed to over-power the riotous group and arrested seven of them, while the rest slipped through.

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Source: GNA

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