Tumu SHS closed down after students embarked on violent demo

The Tumu Senior High School (SHS) has been closed down, Atinkaonline.com can report.
The decision to close down the SHS was arrived at after final year students of the school embarked on a violent demonstration which led to the destruction of several properties.
Students were expected to leave the precincts of the school by 5:00pm on Friday.
About twenty-four (24) students of the Tumu Secondary Technical School in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region are in the grips of the police for causing extensive damage to properties of the school and some teachers.
The students caused damage to property during a protest against the arrest of colleagues  caught in an examination hall with mobile phones cheating in the ongoing West African Senior Secondary Scool Examination (WASSCE).
The mobile phones were seized by the invigilators but the move did not go down with the affected students who massed up on Thursday night and embarked on rampage destroying properties of both tutors and the school.
At about midnight on Thursday, the students switched off the main transformer in the school and started vandalising properties of the school.
The Computer Laboratory, Dining Hall, masters’ bungalows, Headmaster’s office and school vehicles were  all destroyed by the enraged students.
 
Tutors who were targets of the attack, had to flee with their families after being hinted by some of the students about the impending violence by the angry students.
Academic activities has since been disrupted and with the District Security Committee set to announce measures to curtail recurrence of the violence.