The Ghana Police Service has suspended three of its officers, including a regional commander, after Monday’s clashes with students who were protesting outside their school.
At least 20 pupils from Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi were taken to hospital with injuries after confrontation with police.
They were part of a group calling for speed bumps to be installed following a number of accidents, local media reported.
In a statement, police said “handling of the incident was poor and fell short of our standard operating procedure on crowd control”.
It added that officers had used pepper spray and fired warning shots after the students had pelted them with stones, but nobody was hit by a bullet.
Clinical psychologists have been sent to the school to offer support to the students, the statement said.
The acting Ashanti regional police commander has been removed from his position. Two other officers have also been interdicted to make way for investigation into the incident.
The police in Ghana have been criticised several times for poor crowd control tactics that often result in injuries and deaths.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com
