The Ghana Police Service has given the management of Swedru School of Business 24 hours to produce students alleged to have assaulted a student of Obrachire Senior High Technical School during a district inter-schools athletics competition.
The directive was issued during a meeting between the Police and the school’s management on Monday, February 24, 2026, following the incident, which occurred on February 20.
The Director-General of the Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Lydia Yaako Donkor, warned that the Service would adopt stringent measures to identify and arrest the suspects if the school fails to comply.
“As law enforcement, when incidents of this nature occur, we have to investigate and arrest. We have a number of ways by which we can make the arrest. But because this is a school environment, we are not going to adopt one of those means. That is why I am giving you, as a school authority, that responsibility to produce them,” she said.
She stressed that failure by the school authorities to produce the students would compel the Police to take further action.
“If you fail to produce them, we are going to adopt means to produce these suspects. This is because what we are seeing is not an act of indiscipline, it is a criminal act, and I do not want to storm this school in my name,” DCOP Donkor cautioned.
The Police said investigations into the assault are ongoing.
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