The Ashanti regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah has ordered the Nyinahin District Security Council to immediately investigate the causes of the weekend fire outbreak at the Nyinahin Catholic Senior High School to bring culprits to face the law.
The Minister described the burning of the dormitory block as “very painful and hoped the investigations will definitely uncover the causes, suspects accordingly punished to prevent future occurrence”.
Speaking to GBC News in Kumasi, Mr. Osei Mensah said, REGSEC picked signal of the intention by some final year students to cause destruction on various campus after their final papers and therefore ordered the students to leave campus as soon as they finished with the final paper.
But he however added that he could not understand why the school authorities could not “foresee this heinous crime and avert it”.
It will be recalled that, Some form three students of Nyinahin Catholic Senior High School in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region have allegedly set parts of the facility ablaze after completing their final examination.
The incident occurred on Friday, October 8, 2021 at about 7PM.
Their action, reports say was to register their displeasure over what they claim is the heart-hardness of authorities for not allowing them cheap in the just ended West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The situation has left over 200 students stranded with no place to sleep.
Fire officers who were at the scene to douse the fire according to reports were also attacked and blocked by the suspected arsonist students as they watch the facility burnt to ashes.
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