Kukuom Agricultural SHS closed down after students demonstration

The Asunafo South District Security Council (DISEC) in collaboration with authorities of Kukuom Agricultural Senior High School (SHS), have temporary closed down the school.

This followed a demonstration by the students against Mr P.K. Boakye, Headmaster and Mr Solomon Mensah, Senior Housemaster during which their bungalows were ransacked and property worth several millions of Ghana cedis was destroyed.

When the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited the school on Tuesday, there were armed Police personnel around to maintain law and order.

The students told the GNA that on October 18, last Thursday, Mr Takyi Samuel, Assistant Headmaster in-charge of Academic was unexpectedly transferred from the school in tears.

This angered the students, saying: “The Assistant Headmaster is a good material to us. He is hard-working and dedicated to all academic work in the school”.

They suspected that the Headmaster, Mr. Boakye was behind the immediate transfer and in a spontaneous reaction started the demonstration by first trooping to the Asunafo South District Education Directorate to demand explanation for the sudden transfer of the Assistant Headmaster.

When the GNA contacted the Headmaster and the Assistant Headmaster they declined to comment on the issue.

Meanwhile, the Assistant Headmaster in-charge of Administration, Mr M.K. Cephas told the GNA that form three and four students “are to report on Wednesday, October 24, while form two students are expected on Saturday, October 27.”

Sources at Goaso Police told the GNA that no arrests had been made.

Source: GNA