The Ada District Education Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has closed down the Tehey District Assembly (D/A) Basic School, Ada West, after some angry youth burnt the corpse of the chief of Tehey including an ambulance that carried the remains.
The incident happened on September 15, this year, when the angry youth protested against the burial of the late Nene Mensah Zotorvi V, Tehey Chief, 67, at his residence.
The bereaved family, despite being served with a court writ restraining them from burying the deceased in his residence, reportedly defied the order, which allegedly infuriated the plaintiffs, who attacked the mourners with clubs and machetes.
The protesters reportedly gunned down a mourner, Ofotsu Sabbah, 40 and eventually burnt the ambulance carrying the dead body of the Tehey chief.
Following the barbaric incident, the GES in the district closed down the Tehey basic school, as some indigenes fled to neighbouring communities.
The Ada Divisional Police Command has so far made six arrests and the Paramount Chief of the Ada Traditional Area, Nene Abram Kabu Akuaku III, has implored the police to intensify their search for the actors of the heinous act, as well as provide a 24-hour police patrol of the area.
This, he believed, would convince the GES to reopen the Tehey D/A Basic School for teaching and learning.
At a presser at the Ada Traditional Council, Nene Akuaku III said nobody should shield any perpetrator, saying: “What happened at Tehey is unheard of in the history of Ghana.”
He condemned the wickedness and appealed to his people to volunteer information to the police, whom he encouraged to deal cruelly with anybody that would be found culpable.
Nene Abram Akuaku III advised his people to always seek court action whenever they feel somebody is violating their right or engaged in some actions that they frown on.
“If the court orders and the person continues to misconduct himself or herself, report back to the court and it knows what to do to give you as justice. If the plaintiffs had been patient and gone back to the court to report, the court would have given another strict order and that would have settled it,” he explained.
He commended the Ada West District Security Committee (DISEC) for their swift move to get the police to investigate the matter, which has so far has six persons remanded in police custody.
Lastly, he allayed the fears of any investor, saying: “The security of the Ada Traditional Area is always on the alert to protect anybody’s investment. Therefore, I invite investors to choose this area for their projects.”
Ghanaian Chronicle