The teachers claimed they were attacked because they refused to allow their students to cheat during the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
An amateur video aired by 3News shows the enraged students chasing the teachers and pelting them with stones and sachet water. Walter Yesutor Adanunyo, one of the beaten instructors, was seen on film running for his life.
Narrating the incident on Ghana Tonight, Mr. Walter Yesutor Adanunyo told Alfred Ocansey of TV3 that he was in the school with his Head of Department after Monday’s integrated science paper when one of the students returned to inform them about a mob at the school’s gate who threatened to harm him, because he was too strict in the exam room.
“So, when the girl came to tell us, we called the headmaster. And then he also called the police patrol team, and then they came to sack those students in the school, those who were on the compound. Because after them, all the papers were taken away from the compound. And then we were done with the day’s business.”
“We were three permanent teachers and two service personnel. So, I told them that, okay, so since the attention is there, let’s try and go. Not knowing, some of the students used other routes. And then they met us halfway. That was when they started ‘hey, I am strict in the exam room. I don’t want anybody to copy. Why would I not allow them to cheat in the exam room?”
“I don’t know if they were the people in my statement, which I gave at the police station. I doubt. But I wrote their names. If you want me to give their names to you, I can give their names to you off-air,” Mr. Adanunyo said.
