The burnt motorbike
SOME FINAL-YEAR students of Atebubu Senior High School have reportedly attacked some tutors of the school.
The tutors are alleged to have collected money from the students with the promise that they would help them (students) engage in examination malpractices in the ongoing West Africa Secondary School Examination (WASSCE), but failed to honour their promise.
At dawn on Friday, the students purportedly burned into ashes a motorbike said to belong to one of the tutors. Police in the municipality confirmed the action to DAILY GUIDE on telephone but said the security agents were yet to identify the motorbike and its owner.
Divisional commander, ACP Kwame Akomeah, told this paper that though the incident was true, the students rather seized a bike from an old student of the school and burned it but not from any tutor. He explained that the motorbike was given to the former student by the tutor but claimed that investigations were yet to locate the bike and the students who perpetrated the act.
ACP Akomeah allayed the fears of parents and the general public saying, the situation on campus was calm, adding that his men were patrolling the school to forestall any further disturbances.
Asked whether he was aware of an SOS message purportedly sent out by an assistant headmistress of the school calling for protection as their families were under threat, the commander responded in the negative, saying he spoke with the headmistress in the morning but was not informed about any SOS message.
He explained that investigation into the alleged bribery of the tutors by the students to help cheat in the examination had been truncated because some of the students attacked the investigators. He said he was in touch with the aggrieved students, tutors and headmistress of the school to make sure that the rest of the examination papers were written without hitches.
Headmistress of the school, Sophia Adrenyor, still could not be reached for comments as her phone had been off since Friday when the incident happened.
FROM Daniel Y Dayee, Atebubu
danielyaodayee@yahoo.com