Court orders the arrest of student for
threatening Headmaster
Koforidua (Eastern Region) 03 July
2000
Akropong Akwapim Circuit Court has
issued a warrant for the arrest of Prosper Wormenor, a former student of the
Aburi Secondary Technical School who allegedly threatened to kill the
Headmaster of the school, Mr Peter Logo.
Eastern Regional Police Public
Relations Officer, Chief Inspector Jonathan Abban, in a statement issued on
Sunday said that Wormenor was the ringleader of five students, who armed with
cutlasses, threatened to kill the headmaster and some tutors of the school.
They accused them of complicity in
the cancellation of their 1999 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination
(SSSCE) results by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
The statement said, Wormenor, 23,
a citizen of Dzodze in the Volta Region, and resident at Madina in Accra, with
the four others also destroyed the school's notice board and a plantain groove
belonging to one of the teachers.
It said based on a report the
school's authorities made to the Aburi Police, four of the suspects were
arrested and put before the court.
They are Frank Lartey Gyekye, 18,
from Akwapim Awukugua, Wisdom Abbey 19, from Prampram, Ernest Amoah, 20 and
William Asante, 18, both citizens of Aburi.
The four were initially remanded
in prison custody but were granted bail to re-appear on Tuesday, July 4.
Wormenor, however, absconded and
had been in hiding since.
On May 10 the five former students
whose 1999 SSSCE results were cancelled by WAEC for examination malpractice
armed themselves with cutlasses and went to attack the school authorities.
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