Kpandai Senior High School (SHS) students in the Northern Region have fled from the school’s campus after engaging in a scuffle with police officers.
District Director of Education for the area, Mrs Faustina Nayam told the media that the student caused a melee after a housemistress of the school seized some cell phones from a group of students.
“It all happened when a house mistress of the school seized phones from some female students of the school, The girls came out of their dormitories shouting that they won’t allow the housemistress to take away their phones. When the male students saw this, they also came to join and started destroying school property,” she said.
“The students destroyed 15 veronica buckets, two notice boards, the headmaster’s car and also the school’s science laboratory,” she added.
The headmaster then called the district police commander to come maintain order with his team but they were attacked by the students.
The police commander, with some other five police officers, sustained various injuries with three currently on admission at the hospital.
Military reinforcement was called upon to help with the situation due to the disorder caused by the student.
However, the students, upon seeing the military reinforcement, took to their heels and fled from the school.
“As I speak with you now, not a single student is in the school, they’ve all run away and are now in their homes,” she added.
She pleaded with parents to convince their wards to come back to the school and assured them of their safety.
