The incident occurred at the school’s premises on Monday, September 2 shortly after the 18-year-old had finished an exam. According to a cousin of the deceased who witnessed the situation, the stabbing happened during a fight with a colleague named Godwin.
The deceased was stabbed three times in the chest and was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital. She narrated that the fight resulted from an altercation over an issue.
“He had a paper in the morning and came to me that he was done with his paper…Few minutes we heard some noise at the back and we asked what’s wrong and they said its Godwin and Edward fighting. I asked what’s the fight about and they said its nothing serious.
“The whole thing was about you what do you have? I have this and that, you’re lying. That was what brought the fight. So, I thought the whole thing is nothing.
“Few minutes later, the Godwin guy came up to me and asked me to warn my brother or else his blood will flow and I told him it has not gotten to that,” she narrated.
According to her, Edward, the deceased ran to the teachers who were in school when the chaos started but they “did not do anything.”
This prompted her to rush to her uncle whose shop was outside the school to report what was happening but did not meet him. However, upon her return, her cousin had allegedly been stabbed by Godwin, a final year visual arts student who he was engaged in the fight with.
“When the chaos started my brother run to the teachers who were sitting under the tree in the school compound…I was calling the guy to stop but they didn’t mind me, so I decided to go to my uncle who has a shop outside the school to report to him what was happening since the teachers are not doing anything.
“The guy is not someone he will joke, when he is coming to school, he has this small bag which contains a lot of harmful substances like knife,” she said.
She claimed that even after the stabbing, the teachers were unconcerned about the condition of the victim, and it only took the assistance of a passerby to help her transport the victim to LEKMA hospital.
“No teacher followed us. I went to the hospital alone and his father came around. It was one man passing by who helped me. It took about twenty to thirty minutes to take him to the hospital.
“When my uncle father came, they told him he’s gone because he was stabbed in the chest,” she stated.
Meanwhile, father of the deceased is demanding justice and answers from the school authorities.
“The school authorities have not said anything from yesterday, the police have not called and even the family of the boy who killed my son has not reached out. We want answers from the school authorities and the parents of the boy. We want justice and want to know what happened,” he told Ahotor News reporter Nana Appiah Kubi.
The school authorities and the police are yet to comment on the matter.
Story by: Richard Nana Appiah Kubi/Ahotoronline.com
