- A final-year student at O'Reilly Senior High School was fatally stabbed by a classmate
- The victim's family accuses the school of negligence
- The family is demanding a thorough investigation into the incident
The suspect who stabbed a final-year student of O’Reilly Senior High School to death on Monday has been arrested.
The deceased, Edward Borketey Sackey, reportedly died on Monday, September 2, after being stabbed in the chest during an altercation with a classmate.
The victim, 18-year-old Edward Sackey, was a student in the school’s General Arts Department.
The incident occurred on campus after a fight broke out between Edward and a fellow student from the Visual Arts Department named Godwin, shortly after the deceased had finished writing an exam.
Edward’s cousin narrated that the fight resulted from an altercation over an issue explaining that “we heard some noise at the back and we asked what’s wrong and they said it’s Godwin and Edward fighting.”
“I asked what’s the fight about and they said it was nothing serious.”
According to Accra-based 3News, Edward was stabbed three times in the chest over an argument over who was richer.
“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 was nothing.”
Meanwhile, the family of a final-year student is demanding justice.
Speaking in an interview, the father of the deceased Enoch Sackey accused the school’s teachers of negligence.
He says his niece called him earlier that day to invite him to campus over the fight when it started.
He said he initially did not understand the rationale behind the call, as the teachers had the responsibility to prevent it. He however made his way to the school in Accra to understand the happenings.
The aggrieved father and other family members clad in red and black attire on Tuesday picketed the school premises to express their displeasure.
He added that neither the school administration, the attacker’s family, nor the police has reached out to them regarding the situation.
“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.”
He added that the administration had invited police officers to prevent them from accessing the campus.
“They have brought policemen to block every gate to stop us from going in.”
In an earlier report, Edward’s cousin narrated that the fight resulted from an altercation over an issue explaining that “we heard some noise at the back and we asked what’s wrong and they said it’s Godwin and Edward fighting.”
“I asked what’s the fight about and they said it was nothing serious.”
