3 students injured in clash over 'Wee'

By William Yaw Owusu.

Monday, 05 June 2006
LAST Friday, some students from the Emit Electronic Institute reportedly clashed with their counterparts at Odorgonno Secondary School both in Accra, resulting in injuries to three students.

The students from Emit, at Kaneshie, were said to have gone to the campus of Odorgonno, at Awoshie in the western part of Accra, in a commercial mini bus allegedly to ask for directions to where they could buy Indian hemp, popularly callee 'Wee'

The Odorgonno students were alleged to have told the Emit boys that Indian hemp was not sold on the school compound, but this apparwith the Emit students who reportedly attacked them.

In an interview with the Times on Saturday morning Mary Amankwah, headmistress of Odorgonno Secondary School said the Emit students, numbering about 15, entered the campus wieling offensive weapons such as cutlasses, knives, clubs, sticks, electrical wires and stones.

She said this was at a time when school had closed and students were on their way home.

“The Emit students demanded from our students where “wee’ is sold in the school’, she said, adding“when our students told them they did not sell ‘wee’ here they started manhandling them.”

Mrs Amankwah said that some of the Emit students went through a nearby bush, entered the junior classroom block and began to “whip our students with wires.”

“For about two hours (4pm to 6pm) the Emit students continued to beat up our students without any provocation until we called in the police from Odorkor who came to maintain order before picking up one of the boys that our students had been able to apprehend,” she added.

Asked about what could have triggered this, the headmistress said, “as far as I am concerned there is no bad blood between our school and Emit, and also we are not in the same zone with them when it comes to sports.”


Mrs Amankwah named Master Emmanuel Gyasi, a form two Visual Arts student as the one who was seriously injured while two others she could not identify immediately sustained minor injuries.

She said that some of her students, mostly girls, were traumatized by the incident. Both the acting Director General of the Ghana Education Service, Mr Michael Nsowah and the District Director of Education had called to enquire about the incident which they said they heard on radio. She was yet to inform them formally, however.

Mrs Amankwah said the school has no fence wall, a situation that threatens the security and safety of students.

Superintendent Joseph Pius Kesseh, Commander of the Odorkor District Police, confirming the incident, said one of the Emit boys Evans Enchill, 17, a first year student popularly called “Kakalika,” is in their custody.

Enchill allegedly told the police that he had accompanied his seniors to Odorgonno for a funfair.

He gave the seniors’ nick names, Mali and Gunshot saying he did hot know their real names.

Supt. Kesseh said in collaboration with the police at Anyaa the driver of the bus allegedly used by the Emit students had been arrested.