The Bekwai District Police Commander, DSP Teddy Damptey-Brown has alleged that the final year male student of Oppong Memorial Senior High School at Kokofu near Bekwai in the Ashanti Region who was stabbed to death went out of the boarding house through unauthorised means.
He said although the school is walled with gate, the students found an unauthorised means to escape from the boarding house and went to town to have fun.
21-year-old Richard Kofi Appiah was stabbed to death by a JHS student who is currently on the run when they had a fight on Saturday night.
Richard died on Sunday morning after losing several pints of blood, according to a source at the Bekwai government hospital.
Speaking on Atinka TV’s morning show, Ghana Nie with Ekourba Gyasi Simpremu, DSP Teddy Damptey-Brown said, “We learnt that the boy was in the boarding house at the school but every evening they go to town because it was about 9.45 p.m. and no boarder is allowed to go out at that time.”
Giving a detailed report on the matter, he said on Saturday, September 4th, 2021, around 11.45 p.m, Teachers from the school reported to the police that one of their students had been stabbed with pieces of bottle.
The Police, he said saw that the boy had passed out and had been sent to the Ahmadiyya Hospital when they went to see him.
“We saw that the boy had been stabbed in his thigh and he was dead,” he said.
DSP Teddy Damptey-Brown explained that the boy was in a group of five when they went out and when they got to town, they met another set of group of boys whom they had already had an encounter with in town earlier.
He continued that a friend of Richard Appiah was having mobile phone on him and one of the boys from the other group snatched it from him.
Richard Appiah, according to the Police tried to take the phone back but his opponent broke a bottle and used the pieces to stab Richard Appiah.
He said one Solomon Nuamah, 17, had been arrested in relation to the matter.
However, he said Solomon Nuamah denied being involved in the brawl, but he is assisting the police to investigate the matter.
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Meanwhile, He said the school authorities cannot be blamed or held responsible for the incidence because they went for prep and the students were made to go and sleep.
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