Four students at the Accra Academy Senior High School were on Monday arraigned at the Dansoman Circuit Court over an alleged assault of their junior colleagues in form one. The students were seen in a viral video on social media assaulting one of the victims with a machete.
Among the four arraigned, only Richard Ninson, 21, is an adult. He was, however, not present in court. The other three, aged between 15 and 17, are minors and their names are, therefore, withheld. The three were present in court. Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul-Basit, presiding, and in exercising her discretion, released the three on bail into the custody of their relatives β father, uncle and aunty β who were to stand as sureties under the Juvenile Justice Act.
Their release was to enable them to prepare for their upcoming examinations. Meanwhile the court has ordered prosecution to file its disclosures and witness statements for Case Management Conference. The court heard that the accused persons were all day students residing at Mamprobi and Shukura in Accra.
On January 1, , the school authority intercepted a video circulating on social media suggesting that the four students had assaulted some form one students on the school compound using a machete. Prosecution said the complainant, together with the aunty of one of the minors, took him to the police for questioning.
The court heard that during investigations, it was revealed that on January 17, , the victims form one students went to the school Park to pray, and the four accused persons approached them. The prosecution said the accused persons ordered the victims to kneel and one of them victim , holding a phone, was asked to delete all that was on his phone and hand it over to the accused. The accused threatened the victims not to reveal their ordeal to anyone else they would harm them.
