Police arrest O’Reilly SHS student who stabbed colleague after WASSCE paper

A final-year student of the O’Reilly Senior High School who stabbed his colleague on Monday after they had finished with a paper on the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination has been arrested by the Ghana Police Service.

Currently in Police custody, Godwin, a Visual Arts student allegedly stabbed his classmate identified as Borketey Sackey in the chest to death during an argument which later turned into a fight over whose father is the richest.

A report by Accra-based 3News indicates Edward, a General Arts student was stabbed three times in the chest, a claim the father of the deceased has confirmed.

Speaking to  TV3 on the unfortunate incident, the father of the deceased Enoch Sackey accused the O’Reilly Senior High School teachers of negligence.

“We want answers from the school authority, and the parents of the boy and the police. What happened to the extent of leading to the student stabbing his friend? That’s all we want

We want justice, and we want the school authority to explain to us if the teachers were not at the school when it happened, or they were there, or they did not care,” Edward’s father told TV3.

In a similar situation, five students of the Gomoa Potsin T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School last year were arrested for their involvement in a violent attack that led to the injury of some 12 Form 2 students.

The suspects, mostly final-year students carried out a nighttime attack on the Form 2 students at their dormitory in revenge for an earlier altercation between their colleague and a junior student.

The attackers, led by some final-year students, took advantage of the darkness on campus immediately after the sirens were signalled for lights out and launched the strike on the unsuspecting SHS two students, who were already in bed at the time.

They stabbed some of the victims with knives and struck others with clubs. They also blurred the vision of their victims with flashlights.

Even though the school’s security team and the Potsin Neighborhood Watch Committee responded swiftly, the attackers successfully injured 12 of their colleague students.

The victims were rushed to the Potsin Polyclinic for treatment.

A source familiar with the development told Citi News the assault was revenge for an earlier altercation between an SHS 2 student and an SHS three student in which the SHS 2 student slapped his senior on Friday, September 8, 2023.