Police have detained two students for mobilizing others to lynch a spiritualist who had accused one of them of stealing a cell phone.
Twifo Praso Senior High School is the dwelling of the two pupils.
They have been taken into police custody on charges that they organised a gang to lynch the spiritualist, Abdul Latif.
Spiritualist Abdul Latif is reported to have disclosed and charged one of them with stealing a younger student’s cell phone.
The kids apparently sought the spiritualist’s assistance in order to locate the person who stole the junior student’s phone, which had gone missing.
After Abdul Latif, a spiritualist, accused one of the students of being the one in possession of the stolen phone, the student allegedly went and organized his gang, which consisted of roughly ten members. The students then ambushed and attacked Abdul Latif, severely beating him till he passed away.
The event took place on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, at approximately 8:00 p.m.
After that, they pulled his body into a bush and threw weeds over it.
The police recovered the body and deposited it at the Twifo Praso Government Hospital Mortuary for autopsy.
Graphic Online’s Central Regional correspondent, Shirley Asiedu Addo reports that the incident sparked outrage among some youth in Twifo Praso, who planned to storm the school campus for revenge.
But a timely intervention by the police prevented violence.
It took reinforcement teams from the Central North Regional Police Command to maintain order and ensure peace in the area.
The father of the deceased, Yaw Nkrumah said after the phone incident, his son had been attacked twice by some students of the school but he was able to face the students and left unharmed on both occasions.
He said the one that led to his death was the third time he had come under attack from the students.
