SHS Student In Offinso Stabs Teacher In The Eye After Being Confronted For Loitering

• A teacher in the Asuoso Senior High School at Offinso was stabbed in the eye by a student
• The Ghana National Association of Teachers has called for justice for the teacher following the incident
• The teacher, Ishmael Famous, was stabbed after he stopped the student for loitering who subsequently attacked him

A teacher in the Asuoso Senior High School at Offinso in the Ashanti Region was stabbed in the eye by a student.

The teacher, Ishmael Famous, was stabbed after he queried the loitering student.

Adom News reported that Famous has lost his eye in the incident which occurred on November 8.

The Ghana National Association of Teachers is demanding justice for the teacher following the incident.

“The law demands that if somebody is working in his line of duty, and something happens to him, the law provides that he should be compensated,” the General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers, Thomas Musah, told the Daily Graphic.

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Images of the teacher have been shared on social media.

Assault at Labone SHS

In June, the Ghana Education Service was petitioned to probe the alleged assault and indefinite suspension of a student.

The student was allegedly slapped by a housemaster on June 18, 2024, after a dispute over a phone.

The student had been accused of using a phone and refusing to surrender it to the housemaster. He was also allegedly prevented from attending classes despite his denial.

The student's family said the expulsion stressed them because their ward had to start travelling from Kasoa in the Central Region to Labone in Accra for school.

It also emerged that the student who was allegedly assaulted was hospitalised after the reported incident.

Police fire to break fight in SHS

YEN.com.gh reported last year that police fired warning shots to disperse a crowd of Labone SHS students who clashed with another group on July 26, 2023.

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Students scampered for safety amid gunfire. Someone hiding behind a window captured the incident on camera.

It was initially thought that nearby community residents had stormed the school.

Proofread by Samuel Gitonga, Copy Editor at YEN.com.gh

Source: YEN.com.gh