The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of West Gonja district has shed light on issues leading to the unrest by students of the Ndewura Jakpa Senior High School.

Per his investigations, the MCE, Saeed Muhazu Jibreel revealed that issues leading to the unrest on the part of the students were trivial.

This comes after students of the Ndewura Jakpa vandalized the school’s properties over their disagreement with the school’s 1.5-meter social distancing seating arrangement in the examination hall.

Speaking on Joy FM’s Top Story, the MCE narrated events leading to the unrest;

"It was around 6:45 pm last night that I got a distress call from the headmaster that his students were demonstrating. For which reason he did not know so I had to call the police [in] to calm the situation,” he stated. 

The students first destroyed the electrical system and plunged the whole school into darkness.

Parts of the ceiling of a newly constructed six-unit classroom block was also destroyed in this act of vandalism. 

According to him, the students were in the process of vandalizing more of the school’s properties until the police intervened. 

He went on to state that the issues that came up in his interactions with the student body subsequently were concerns that did not warrant such as an outburst.

“We had engagements with the students, myself and the regional minister and it will baffle you that these were issues that could have been solved.

The first reason was that the first paper they wrote on Monday that was Integrated Science, the spacing as compared to what they saw yesterday was different,” he narrated. 

He went on to narrate that the students were unhappy about the wide spacing of the new seating arrangements and therefore decided to protest.

He, however, added that no arrests had been made by the police but some names had been given, and those students were being investigated.