The Eastern Regional Correspondent for Peace FM Michael Akrofi was on Monday, June 22, 2020 attacked by some persons at Suhum Senior High and Technical School (SUTESCO).
The men numbering about three accosted the reporter in attempted to assault him but for the Swift intervention of some parents who went to his rescue.
The Journalist was filming and interviewing stranded students and parents at the main gate of the School after they were denied entry for reporting late and with bushy hairs.
The three men who were not happy with the Journalist ordered him to stop reporting on the matter and attempted to seize his mobile phones but was resisted by the Journalist leading to near-violent attacks as they became more aggressive.
Over 70 final year students of Suhum Senior High and Technical School (SUTESCO) in the Eastern Region were denied entry Monday Evening having bushy hair and reporting late to school.
The students most of whom had traveled from across parts of the country was locked out by school authorities that they came in before 5:00pm.
“I came here 4:30pm they asked me to barber my hair and returned 5:10pm but they disallowed my entry. It is almost 8:00pm I am still stranded here I can’t go back. The gateman says we should go and sleep at a Guesthouse but I don’t have money for that.”
Another student said “We came here few minutes after five they asked as to barber our hair we joined a queue at the barbering shop after we were done and returned to the school they said they will not allow us to enter” some of the students lamented.
The situation forced many of the students to sleep in guesthouses while others perched with strangers some taxi drivers in town.
The Headmistress of the School, Elizabeth Agyakwa who had ordered that none of the students be allowed entry into the school came to the campus with raging anger after some parents informed some political figures about the situation.
She later ordered the gate be opened for few stranded students left behind the gate at 9:00pm.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
