2 schools clash in Tamale …several properties destroyed
Two second cycle institutions, Vitting Senior High Secondary Technical School (VSHSTS) and Dabokpa Technical Institute (DTI), all in the Tamale Metropolis of the Northern Region, clashed on Monday over yet to be established cause.
However, it is believed that the clash followed an earlier disagreement between the students from both schools leading to an escalation which resulted in the destruction of several properties belonging to both schools.
Among the properties destroyed was the fence walls of the Vitting Senior High Secondary
Technical School allegedly pulled down by the rampaging students from Dabokpa Technical Institute.
According to an eyewitness, Abukari Sallam Yunusah, the situation was so chaotic that persons using that stretch, including people visiting the Tamale Teaching Hospital had to use a different route.
He explained that most of the students hurled stones at each other with careless abundance stressing that “I was surprised to see the students at that time having banter on each other.”
Afa Alhassan Yakubu, a resident who lives closer to the two schools, also told this paper that sounds of gun shots were heard from the schools as early as 4a.m.
He said this was not the first time that the two schools were having such clashes.
Attempts to reach the headmaster of Vitting Senior High School proved futile, however, the headmistress of Dabokpa noted that they had been barred from speaking to the media over the incident.
Meanwhile the Northern Regional Minister, Ali Adolf John Mburidiba, and the Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, have since visited the two schools
FROM YAHAYA NUHU NADAA, TAMALE
