An attempt by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Prof. (Rev.) S.K. Adjepong, to cover the crime of his son, a second year student of UCC who stabbed another student with a bottle, has taken a new twist.
The V-C and the university authorities had frozen action for months the criminal act of Mr. Kwame Amankwa Adjepong Jnr, while dispensing prompt sanction against students for expressing their indignation over the grading system.
The new dimension came about as a result of the police intervention by commencing investigations into the matter, Chronicle learnt.
Under normal circumstances, such a crime could not have gone unnoticed by the authorities, Chronicle has gathered.
On May 6, this year, a group of students met at a popular Singapore spot in the evening to cool the day and welcome their colleague--Mark Adjei, alias Cool J, who had returned from abroad.
While some students were on the floor dancing, Adjepong Jnr. emerged from nowhere and started exchanging words with the host, Cool J, accusing him of trying to snatch his (Adjepong’s) girlfriend from him.
Chronicle gathered that before Cool J could open his mouth to utter a word, Adjepong Jnr. picked one of the bottles from the table threatening to stab him.
‘I can stab you and go scot-free if you don’t know...”, Adjepong Jnr. reportedly boasted.
At this stage, other students around tried to calm him but before the dust could settle, he stabbed Cool J sending him sprawling to the ground with blood oozing from his head.
“He has killed me, Oh what have I done? He has killed me,” the victim screamed.
Adjepong Jnr. bolted, leaving the victim and his colleagues.
The friends and the owner of the spot quickly picked a car and rushed Cool J to the hospital on the campus.
Some of the students were then dispatched to Rev. Prof. Adjepong’s house to inform him about the incident.
The Vice-Chancellor duly accompanied the students to the hospital to see things for himself and the damage his son had caused.
After acquainting himself with the situation, Prof. Adjepong promised to compensate the victim and the students whose shirts and cloths were stained with blood.
The Vice-Chancellor’s office confirmed the story when Chronicle called last week.
An official describing himself as Special Assistant to the V-C told the Chronicle Prof. has travelled to Accra but he has told us to inform you that he would not be in a position to comment on the issue since the police have taken over the investigations into the case.”
Chronicle gathered that the victim who nearly lost his life spent almost one month in the hospital before he was discharged.
After Mark Adjei was discharged, Prof. Adjepong is said to have reneged on his promise to compensate him, Sources within the university, however, told the Chronicle that the Vice -Chancellor had paid ‘something’ to the students.
