Four students are in the grips of the Weija Divisional Police Command after a clash ensued between some students of Christian Methodist Senior High School and local youth over a missing mobile phone at the school’s premises at Aplaku.
Citi News sources say students and some of the youth were trading blows and in some instances, clubs were used resulting in some students sustaining injuries while some school properties were also destroyed.
According to the source, the students usually charge their mobile phones at a grocery shop nearby, where they are given numbers as a form of identity when coming for their phones.
One of the students, according to the source, stole the number for the retrieval of the mobile phone from another student using it to go for the phone which was not originally his.
The situation escalated after colleagues of the student whose phone had been stolen attacked the student who allegedly stole the phone resulting in violence among students.
The student fearing for his life sought refuge at the centre where they charged the phone prompting the local youth to jump to his rescue resulting in a clash between the local residents and the students.
“The students can be troublesome sometimes. They attacked their student beating him to a pulp. They even destroyed the properties of the shop owner where they used to charge the phone. They later went ahead and stabbed some of the area boys in the eye.
“The area boys were angry because they attacked and destroyed Allhaji the shop owner’s property in his shop, leading to chaos. Some of the students were hurt in the process and the same applies to the area boys.
“The way they are behaving it looks like they are land guards and not students because this is unacceptable,” an eyewitness confirmed.
“We see them smoking Indian hemp here openly and if you talk about it they attack you. We see them using hard substances like tramadol and I wonder why this is happening so,” the eyewitness added.
Teachers of the school are calling for the closure of the school to make way for the matter to be settled.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Police Service has taken control of security at Christian Methodist School in New Aplaku, Weija, in the Greater Accra Region on Friday, February 28, following a violent clash between students and local youth over a stolen phone.
Police boost security at Christian Methodist School after students clashed with local youth