Students at the front of the police station
Final-year students of Atebubu Senior High School last Friday attacked the Atebubu Police Station with stones and clubs after police personnel arrested five of their colleagues for threatening to vandalise the school’s properties.
In the process, the students injured a police officer on duty, vandalised a police vehicle amidst chanting ‘yeeni abre’, ‘yeeni abre kooo’ and demanded the release of their colleagues.
The five students were arrested by the police for threatening to attack some tutors of the school, who the students alleged, had collected GH¢50 each from about 764 final-year students writing the ongoing WASSCE exams with the promise to allow them to indulge in examination malpractices but failed to honour their promise.
The students narrated that whilst the tutors failed to honour their promise, they rather tightened examination rules. Tutors who refused to be drawn in the malpractice reported the threat of the students to the headmistress, Sophia Aderenyor, who reported the students to the police.
The police then arrested five students for questioning. This action of the police infuriated the students, thereby, triggering the attack.
An officer on duty was hit on the head and rushed to Atebubu Municipal Hospital, where he was treated and later discharged.
The Divisional Police Commander, ACP Kwame Akomeah, confirmed the incident to DAILY GUIDE on the phone but refused to mention the names of the officer and the five students who were arrested for security reasons.
Efforts to reach the headmistress of the school to confirm or deny the allegation proved futile.
FROM Daniel Y Dayee, Atebubu
danielyaodayee@yahoo.com