Some students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Sicence and Technology Senior High School(KNUST SHS) on Tuesday evening held a protest against the school authorities following the death of a student
According to the students, one of their colleagues who had an ulcer and was ill was not attended to adequately by the school authorities.
They believe the authorities feared he had contracted the novel coronavirus and as a result, did not attend to him for hours leading to his death.
The students then started demonstrating to register their displeasure with the school authorities.
During the protest, they vandalized the headmistress’ car.
It took the intervention of police personnel who were deployed to the school to help maintain calm.
One of the students recounted that “the senior housemaster told his [the deceased boy’s] friends to leave him alone. He told them to sanitise their hands and asked them why they were holding the boy and gave them a plot to weed [as punishment].”
The students also accused the headmistress of also not handling the situation with any urgency.
“The headmistress herself came to stand in front of this boy and the boy was rolling on the floor for more than four hours. They couldn’t call any car to take him to the hospital.”
A team of police personnel has been stationed on the school’s premises to maintain calm.
Source: citinewsroom.com
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