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Frank Ato Abraham, Director of Kolege High School located at Darkuman Junction, Accra, has been charged with the offence of fraud after failing to register about 196 final year students of his school for the on-going West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The director, according to the police, collected money from the students but failed to register them for the examination and issued fake index numbers to the students. He has therefore been charged with the offence of defrauding by false pretence by the police and is to face court soon. Students of Kolege High School, numbering about 196 went on rampage on April 10, 2012 and vandalized school property after they discovered that their director also Known as �Kolege man� had failed to register them for the on-going West African Secondary School Certificate Examination although they had paid in full their fees including that of the exams. DSP Freeman Tettey, a Public Relations Officer at the Police Public Affairs Directorate, who confirmed the story to DAILY GUIDE, said after the rampage by the students early last month, police launched investigations into the matter and found the director culpable of the offence. He said the investigations revealed that the students paid the examination fee but the director refused to register them. Having paid GH�1,100.00 each, the students were issued index numbers for the examination by the director, which police also discovered were forged. Police also established in their investigations that the school was no longer an examination centre since they have an issue with WAEC which is still in court. �Suspect has duly been charged for court and would face the charges levelled against him,� he added. Students of Kolege High School near Darkuman on April 10, 2013, went on rampage damaging portions of the school building, for failure on the part of the school�s authorities to register them to write the on-going WASSCE examinations. The irate students also vandalized all computers in the ICT centre of the school and broke most of the glass windows of the auditorium and offices in the school. About 196 final students who were supposed to write this year�s WASSCE could not do so because the director of the school refused to register them for the examination after collecting over GH�200,000 as registration and school fees from the final year students. According to information gathered from the students, the school fees together with the registration fee ranged between GH�800 and GH�1,100 depending on the programme the student was reading. After coming to the realisation that their future was in great danger and to pay the authorities in their own coin, the students set the Opel Caravan car of the director on fire and completely destroyed all the items in the school�s office and the ICT centre including computers, chairs and tables. When DAILY GUIDE visited the school that fateful day, majority of the students especially the girls were seen weeping uncontrollably over their fate as anxious parents also trooped to the school to back the action of their wards. This compelled police personnel, who were called in, to investigate the matter.