[ 2014-11-22 ]

Soldiers brutalise students of Wa Islamic School
Two students of the Islamic Senior High School in
Wa were admitted to hospital yesterday following a
high-handed military action to quell a stand-off
between the students and the school authorities.

The students, a male and a female, were the main
casualties of an apparent simultaneous police and
military action to break the front of the
students, as their peaceful protest degenerated
into chaos.

The soldiers allegedly invaded the girls’
dormitory and started beating the riotous students
following a call to the police to go to the school
and restore order.

The two students were being treated and monitored
at the Islamic Hospital in Wa as of press time
yesterday, hospital sources told the Daily
Graphic.

An eyewitness said it took some guts by the Deputy
Crime Officer of the Upper West Regional Police
Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police Mr
George Asare, to calm the military personnel who
had gone into action without the knowledge of the
police.

School activities returned to normal later after
the Headmaster, Mr Tampouri Abdul-Salaam Dramani,
Mr Asare and the President of the Students
Representative Council (SRC), Master Alidu Waah
Saani, had addressed the students in turns on the
compound.

Master Saani, who expressed surprise at the action
of the military, said the students had raised
questions with the school authorities over certain
items on the termly bills and demanded that issues
relating to aspects of ICT
in particular be scrapped.

He said what started as a minor agitation at prep
time last Wednesday night became a full blown
stand-off with the school administration when some
students refused to allow the headmaster to
address the year groups in batches.
Rather, he said, the students asked that the
headmaster address them collectively in order not
to break their front.
Mr Dramani said the police were called in to
restore order when it became apparent that the
stand-off was degenerating into a serious crisis,
especially when some of the students who had
refused to take breakfast turned on their fellow
students who had gone to the dining hall to eat.

Source - Daily Graphic

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