SAE ADOFO Shadrack, one of the two students of St James Seminary Senior High School at Abesim in the Sunyani Municipality who lost their lives when thunder and lightning struck the school three days ago, will be buried soon at his hometown of Buni near Goka in the Jaman North District of the Brong Ahafo Region.
Shadrack, 17, a final-year business student, was killed instantly when he and his colleague Isaac Osei Kuffuor, were hit by lightning on Tuesday night during a rainfall, after they had closed from prep (evening studies) and were heading towards their dormitory.
Five other students who sustained injury had been treated and discharged from the Sunyani Regional Hospital.
Rector of the school Reverend Father Alex Ansu Ebo, in an interview with Daily Guide, said management of the school would assist Shadrack�s family to give him a befitting burial in order to ease the burden on the family. He said the school had been temporarily closed down following the disaster as the students were traumatized and kept on wailing for their departed colleagues.
They would resume Wednesday June 29 after a one-week mid-term break.
Rev Father Ansu Ebo also expressed his deepest condolence to the two bereaved families and prayed to God to grant the deceased persons a perfect resting place. He described the deceased persons as very humble, intelligent and hardworking students who could have aspired for greater heights if they had lived long, saying, �Ghana has lost two great future business people.�
The rector said he personally took interest in Shadrack and secured him a scholarship to enable him to have free education in the school because the boy came from a poor background and had 12 other siblings.
According to him, the school even decided to take care of his education up to the tertiary level.
Meanwhile, the deputy rector of the school has discounted claims suggesting the students who died had been cursed.
Rev. Fr. Hubert Asante Kumi indicated that fear gripped the students after the incident, but the authorities had calmed the situation and the students recovered from the shock. A meteorologist, Rev. Steve Nyakotey Quao also explained that lightning could kill because the human hair is �electrified� when it comes into contact with water.
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