The Assistant Headmaster of the Bole Senior High School, Issahaku Jeduwa, who was arrested in connection with the alleged raping of a 21-year-old third-year student (name withheld) of the school has been arraigned before the Bole District Court and charged with rape.
The case has since been transferred to the Tamale Circuit court to be heard on May 31, 2022.
It will be recalled that Issahaku Jeduwa, was arrested by the Savannah Regional Police Command for an alleged rape incident.
The Savannah Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Inspector Adjekum Owusu, who confirmed the incident to DGN Online said on May 22, 2022, Rauf Yakubu, a resident of Dakurpe near Bole accompanied by one Rashid Yakubu came to the charge office and reported that a tutor of the Bole Senior High School has allegedly raped his younger sister, a third-year student of the said school, on Friday, May 20, 2022.
According to him, on May 23, 2022, police led by ASP Wisdom Pavis Agbaklah with a Police medical report form together with the victim, complainant, and officials of the Ghana Education Service left for Bole District Hospital, where the victim was examined by the medical assistant on duty who promised to submit his findings on the Police medical report form after consultation with the medical doctor of the Hospital.
He indicated that during an interview with the victim, she said the suspect on May 20, 2022, called her to his office at about 1800hrs under the pretext of giving her past questions to prepare her for the WASSCE exams.
“That the tutor made sexual advances at her but she protested and even though she protested, the tutor forcibly had sexual intercourse with her against her will which caused her to bleed profusely.”
Inspector Owusu said a letter requesting the release of the tutor was handed over to the acting headmaster of the Bole Senior High School who promised to avail the suspect as soon as possible and that when the suspect was brought to the police station he was rearrested and kept in police custody.
FROM Eric Kombat, Tamale