A Tamale Magistrate Court has denied the head teacher of St Charles Lwanga R/C Junior High School Jashain Emmanuel bail and remanded him into prison custody.
The 43 year old head teacher in the Saboba District of the Northern region is to reappear on November 29, 2021.
In court on Monday morning, State prosecutors pleaded with the court to remand the suspect to enable Police carry out further investigations into the incident.
Jashain Emmanuel reported himself to the Police and the Police took him in on Saturday November 13, 2021.
He was arrested after he allegedly took some 31 pupils of the school to harvest rice from his farm which led to the boat accident on their return.
On Friday November 12, 10 out of 31 pupils of the St Charles Lwanga R/C JHS who were returning from the rice farm in a canoe got drowned after the boat on which they were crossing the Mabor river capsized.
Nine out of the ten missing bodies have since been retrieved by a search party and buried shortly after some traditional rites were preformed alone the river banks.
