Koforidua: JHS Students pull pistol, dagger on Headteacher

• Posted on April 6, 2018
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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The Koforidua Police are looking for Philip Asare, a pupil of Ellen White SDA School at Soredae and his friend, who allegedly pulled a dagger and pistol on the headmaster and female teacher of the school.
Speaking to Ghana News Agency (GNA), Boakye Acheampong, the headmaster of the school, said Philip and the friend narrowly escaped from the school before the arrival of the police.
He said Philip was writing the mock examination with his other colleagues when his mobile phone rang.
The headmaster said the female teacher (name withheld), who was supervising the examination, collected the phone and gave it to him.
He said later Philip, who is known in school to be a quiet boy, stopped writing the exams, moved out of the examination hall and shouted that he had stopped the school and that his mobile phone should be given to him.
Mr Acheampong said he came out of his office and advised him to stop the noise and go and complete his examination, adding that he left the school compound.

He said after some few minutes, he returned to the school with a friend, who was wielding a pistol and threatened the headmaster to give him the mobile phone.
Mr Acheampong said in the process, Philip and the friend smashed a laptop on the headteacher’s table, threw the books on the table down and ransacked all the items in the office in search of his phone.
He said after Philip failed to locate the phone, he and the friend went to look for the female teacher, who collected his mobile phone at the examination hall, placed the dagger under her throat and dragged her by the collar of her dress across the compound to the headmaster’s office.
He said his mother arrived at the school, intervened and led Philip and the friend out of the school.
According to Mr Acheampong, the mother, who had been informed by the school authorities over the poor attendance of school of her son said she saw the son in town when she knew that he should be writing the mock examination.

Mr Acheampong said they called the police who arrived some few seconds after he and the mother had left the school.
Mr Acheampong said he gave the female teacher, who was traumatized by the incident, some days off to recover and seek the assistance of the counselor.
He said a counselling session had already been organised for the pupils of the school, including colleagues of Philip, who are still writing their mock exams.

The headmaster said he had lodged a formal complaint with the police and the authorities at the New Juaben Municipal Education Directorate.

GNA