(Ghanaian Times) — Students of the Ghana National College, on Friday, vandalised school property valued at millions of cedis, following a violent demonstration. The demonstration was in protest against an incident in which their colleague was injured.
The incident started at about 8: 30 pm when some students refused to attend night studies (prep). According to a police source, the Senior Housemaster, Mr C.K. Williams, began to chase them with a cane and in the process, a final-year science student, Selorm Kuduro, fell from the second floor of the J.J Mensah Kane House to the ground.
Kuduro, 17, got injured and was rushed to the Central Regional Hospital where he was admitted. The students were incensed by the incident and rushed to the Senior Housemaster’s bungalow with stones and clubs, but he managed to escape. The irate students vandalized the bungalow and destroyed the school’s Mercedes Benz bus, GV 5404. They later besieged the school’s dinning hall, caused damage to louvre blades and set ablaze tables and kiosks belonging to food vendors in the school.
The police were called in to restore order but the situation worsened when the police team tried to use teargas to disperse the students. There were however, no casualties were recorded. Some of the students the ‘Times’ spoke to at the school later, said that they had refused to go for studies because they were tired after having written examinations and engaging in other activities, including sports. The students said that they took the action because they felt that the teachers had treated them unfairly.
Source: GhanaWeb
