The Volta Regional Police Command in
Kpando has arrested eleven persons who allegedly played a role in the violent
clashes between students of the Kpando Senior High School and the Kpando
Technical Institute. The eleven persons include five
students from Kpando Technical Institute, five from the Kpando Senior High
School and the other, a past student of the Kpando Senior High School.
The students who are currently being
detained by the Police are expected to be arraigned today
[Friday].
Kpando Divisional Commander of
Police, Chief Superintendent Thomas Tindow, said “the students will be charged
with rioting and causing unlawful damage to school property.” He further
indicated that, “the headmasters of the two schools, thus, the Kpando Technical
Institute and the Kpando Senior High School helped to identify them, leading to
their arrest”. Students of the Kpando Technical Institute launched a series of
attacks on the Kpando Senior High School after they were reported to have been
denied access to participate in a jam organized in town by students of the
Kpando Senior High School.
Properties damaged included a school
van, the boys’ dormitory, a section of the fence wall and the school’s sign
board. Some female students of Kpando Secondary School were rushed to the
Margarete Marquart Hospital following the attacks, which is the second in
recent times on the mixed school. The two rival schools are only separated by a
major road. Kpantec has a large contingent of male students but with a few females,
whereas Kpansec is a completely mixed school.
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