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The Kpando Police have arrested 11 people for their alleged roles in the clashes between the Kpando Senior High School (KPASEC) and the Kpando Technical Institute (KPANTECH) in the Volta Region.

The suspects include five students each from KPASEC and KPANTECH and a past student of KPASEC.

School properties worth thousands of Ghana cedis were vandalised at KPASEC after the clash between students of the two schools last Sunday.

Among the properties destroyed were vehicle windscreens, part of the wall of the school, an electronic signpost, a security shed and a statue erected in front of the school gate.

It is unclear what might have resulted in the conflict that led to a student of KPANTECH sustaining machete wounds.

Causes

The Kpando Municipal Police Commander, Reverend Superintendent John Opoku, told the Daily Graphic the aggressors attempted to set the boys’ dormitory of KPASEC ablaze but it was averted following the timely intervention by the police.

He said the conflict was generated when the students met at a drinking bar at about 2 a.m. last Sunday and thereafter the conflict was extended to their campuses.

Rev. Opoku said the students from both sides were armed to the teeth ready for the clash. A security beef-up, however, forestalled further destruction of properties.

Re-emergence of hostilities

The re-emergence of hostilities between the two colleges, which are located in the same vicinity and divided by a major road, is reminiscent of previous clashes that had occurred between them since the 1970s.