The caged students
ABOUT SEVEN students have been apprehended by the Kumasi police for unlawfully blocking the Amakom road and disrupting traffic flow on Thursday, January 18, 2024.
The teenage suspects include Abass Abdul-Raheem, 16, Sakafia SHS; Tijani Rufai, 16, Sakafia SHS; Abdul-Aziz Abdul-Karim, 16; Nuru-Ameen, 16; Awf Ayuba, 16, Kumasi Anglican Senior High School (KASS); Huzaif Ibrahim, 16, T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School (AMASS), and Sumaila Mohammed, 15, Kumasi Academy (KUMACA). They are all in custody, assisting with investigations.
The rampaging students were said to be returning from the Inter-schools Gala competition, held at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, and decided to block the road to cause nuisance.
It took the timely intervention of the Zongo Police in Kumasi before the rampaging students were cleared from the road, to ease traffic congestion.
“On January 18, 2024, around 1800 hrs, Zongo Police received information that students from various schools within the metropolis participating in the ongoing Inter-schools Gala competition at Baba Yara Sports Stadium have blocked the road around Amakom traffic light, thereby causing nuisance to motorists and the general public.
“On receipt of such information, Zongo Police swiftly proceeded to the scene and met a sizeable number of students rampaging along Amakom stretch of the road, thereby creating impasses for both pedestrians and motorists.
“At the scene of crime, it was established that students from different schools were causing the nuisance and not only students of Kumasi Technical Institute (KTI) as earlier anticipated,” a police report said.
The report also indicated that the police managed to make some key arrests and cleared the road for vehicles and pedestrians to move freely.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi