Three students of Opoku Ware SHS arrested for alleged robbery

Three students of the Opoku Ware Senior High School have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a botched car snatching incident in Kumasi.

The students aged 17 and 19 years did not succeed in taking away the taxi cab at gunpoint from its driver on Friday night.

The driver is said to have picked up the suspects from Santasi and they asked him to take them to the Lancaster Kumasi City, formerly Golden Tulip Hotel, in the Nhyiaeso.

When they got to the Rattray Park area, the three demanded that the driver hands over the ignition keys to them or they’ll kill him.

Reports say the driver declined and a struggle ensued between the suspects and the driver. The car then hit a wall along the Ridge Police Station and the Royal Golf Park Junction attracting onlookers who came to help the driver.

Sensing danger, one of the students fled the scene, but two of them were arrested and handed over to the Police.

The suspect students are Akwasi Adu Donkor (BY 2), Owusu Appiah Raphael (BY 664) and Asubonteng Osei Kwadwo (BY 76).

Meanwhile, a report by the Secretary, Disciplinary Committee of the School, Bismark Agyeman Duah said it is on record that the three suspects had been withdrawn from the boarding house.

Akwasi Adu Donkor and Asubonteng Osei Kwadwo were withdrawn from the boarding house on the same day for the following offences:
Breaking bounds at night
Wearing unprescribed attire in the school
Fighting in the school

After this, both students have been habitual absentees and Adu Donkor was reported to the headmaster by his English teacher, Mr. Agyemang Duah Bismark. His parents were subsequently called to bring the boy to school and he was warned to desist from such acts.

Asubonteng Osei Kwadwo on the other hand was brought to the Disciplinary Committee again for assaulting a fellow student and he was punished for that.

Owusu Appiah Raphael was also withdrawn from the boarding house for stealing on countless occasions from his colleagues at the dormitory.

After this incident, he and other four students appeared before the D.C. for wrongful entry into someone’s house at TUC. He has also been hiding in the dormitory despite his withdrawal from the boarding house.

The day before his arrest, he was brought to the D.C. for stealing tins of sardines at the dining hall and causing mayhem during supper time even though he was a day student and did not have the right to eat supper at the school.