KNUST SHS students protest against authorities after death of colleague

Some students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science 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 hours leading to his death.The students then started demonstrating to register their displeasure with the school authorities. As part of the protest, they vandalised 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.”Authorities of the school declined to speak to the media following the death. A team of police personnel have been stationed on the school’s premises to maintain calm.