The five are in court for the murder of their colleague
• Five students of the Konongo Odumasi Senior High School (KOSS) have been arrested for murder
• 15-year-old Larhan Sam-una was murdered for refusing to be bullied
• Court has adjourned the case to November 15
Five students of the Konongo Odumase Senior High School in the Ashanti Region have been remanded to a week at a juvenile cell in Juaso over the death of their colleague.
This comes after they appeared before the Konongo-Odumase District Court presided over by Her Worship Joyce Bamfo on Monday, November 8, 2021.
According to Asaaseradio.com, the prime suspect has been charged with murder while four others are facing court for abetment of crime.
They are to re-appear before the court on November 15, 2021.
Background
Five students of the Konongo Odumase Senior High School in the Ashanti Region have been arrested for the murder of 15-year-old Larhan Sam-una, a Form One student of the school.
The five students are reported to have stabbed Larhan Sam-una in the left rib with a kitchen knife on Friday, November 5, by a form two student for refusing to be bullied by second-year students.
He was rushed to the Konongo Government Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival after he had lost so much blood.
The five suspects, who are all form 2 students, were put before the Konongo District Court today, Monday, to face murder related charges.
Speaking to Citi News, the District Police Commander for Konongo, DSP Osei Adu Agyemang, said, “these five suspects who are all in form two ganged up and decided to go and bully the form-one students and assault some of them. The first-year students who felt that the action was uncalled-for resisted and was able to rescue one particular student from the grips of these five suspects. This action infuriated the five suspects, and one of the suspects, Emmanuel Frimpong, rushed on one of the first-year students in an attempt to slap him.”
“Now Larhan Sam’un, who was close by, stopped Osei Frimpong. This action infuriated the main suspect, and then he pulled a small kitchen knife which he had concealed on him and stabbed Larhan Sam’un at the lower left rib. The deceased started bleeding profusely and was then rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police have been able to arrest all the five suspects and also retrieved the blood-stained small kitchen knife”, citinewsroom.com quoted him.
The family of the deceased is demanding justice, stating that the laws of Ghana must deal with offenders.
“There are laws in Ghana that deal with people who have committed a crime like this. So all the family is seeking is for justice to be served. What needs to be done for the suspect to realize that he has committed a crime must be done. Our deceased relative is calm, so we are really saddened by his passing,” Alhaji Abubakar Siddick, an uncle of the deceased and the spokesperson for the family, told Citi News.
Meanwhile, the deceased has been buried in accordance with Islamic tradition.