Ghanaian Times

Armed pupil storms school?As teachers, others ?scatter?

 

In its banner headline story, the Ghanaian Times says for nearly four hours on Monday, pupils and teachers of St. Augustine?s Anglican Junior Secondary School at Akwatia Line in Kumasi, ran helter-skelter for dear life. The paper says for the period, everything stood still at the school, including academic work.

According to the paper, the reason was that four boys, two of them armed with locally manufactured pistols and the others wielding cutlasses, stormed the school at about 9 a.m. threatening to deal ruthlessly with the teachers.

The Times says the attackers, led by Habib Yahaya, a 17-year-old former Form Two pupil of the school, were said to be displeased with the decision of the school authorities to transfer him to the nearby Asem Boys? Junior Secondary School. According to the paper, it took the bravado of only one pupil, 17-year-old Osman Suleman, to stop the invaders.

The paper says hefty-looking Suleman, a Form Two pupil, sent the attackers fleeing after disarming one of them. He later handed over the pistol to the school authorities.