Police have arrested two teachers from Obuasi Senior High Technical School over their alleged involvement in an attack on the school’s headmaster, Abdulai Zakaria.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the two teachers allegedly incited students to assault the headmaster on August 5, 2026, following heightened tensions on campus. Some students had accused Mr. Zakaria of engaging in ritual activities and alleged that he had inappropriate relationships with female students.
Obuasi District Police Commander, Superintendent Mahama Iddrisu, confirmed that three teachers were initially picked up for questioning after the headmaster submitted a formal statement naming students and teachers who instigated the assault.
According to Superintendent Iddrisu, police investigations subsequently narrowed focus to two of the teachers.
“The headmaster was attacked. He was hospitalised. After he was released, he gave a statement to the police and, in the statement he gave, he mentioned certain names. He says there were students who attacked him and there were teachers who instigated them to attack him,” he said.
“Initially, there were three people that we picked yesterday, and then we investigated. We took their statements and through their statements and the headmaster’s statement, we see that they have a lot of questions to answer. So, as I’m speaking now, we are putting them before court this morning so that we seek for remand. Maybe the court will remand them to police custody for us to continue with our investigations. The two suspects are teachers of the SecTech school,” Superintendent Iddrisu added.
In a related development, police are awaiting an autopsy and potential DNA testing on a male foetus exhumed from the school grounds on August 5, which is currently being kept at the Obuasi Government Hospital morgue.
Superintendent Iddrisu explained that suspicions regarding the burial contributed to the assault on the headmaster.
“It is true that a baby boy was buried on the campus of the school, very far from the dormitory. Our information was that the students saw it and then went and exhumed it, and then they are putting false allegations that it is the headmaster or they are alleging that it is the headmaster who buried it, without any evidence or eyewitness or any video saying that they have seen him,” Superintendent Iddrisu said.
“The body of the baby boy has been taken by the police to the Obuasi Government Hospital for preservation and maybe we will do a post-mortem examination and, if possible, a DNA test to know exactly who brought it, if it is the headmaster or any other person,” he stated.
The headmaster, who sustained machete wounds during the incident, has since been discharged from the hospital.