A student of Obrachire Senior High Technical School is demanding justice after he was allegedly attacked during a district inter-schools athletics competition at Agona Swedru in the Central Region.
The victim, identified as Fiadzigbe, reportedly suffered a broken tooth and multiple facial injuries after being pelted with stones and assaulted during the event. A video of the incident, which has since circulated widely on social media, shows the student under attack while others run from the scene.
Speaking about the incident, the student maintained that he did nothing to provoke the assault.
“They threw a stone at me when I was looking for a place to sit so that I could use the medicine on my eye. I didn’t do anything. I was just standing there,” he said.
He explained that the situation escalated suddenly.
“When I turned, I saw my colleagues running, but I didn’t know what was happening. By the time I realised, the stones came to hit me,” he added.
The attack was allegedly carried out by students of Swedru School of Business (SWESBUS) during the competition.
The Ghana Police Service has since arrested three students in connection with the incident, and investigations are ongoing.
Meanwhile, both the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education (Ghana) have condemned the violence, describing it as unacceptable and inconsistent with the spirit of sportsmanship. The institutions have called for those responsible to face appropriate disciplinary and legal action.
Following the incident, authorities have suspended all ongoing sporting activities in the Central Region pending a review and the introduction of strengthened security measures.
For the victim, accountability remains the primary concern.
“I want them to be arrested. Anything that the government wants to do to them,” he said.
