The Ghana Education Service (GES) has closed down Darus-Salam school in Techiman in the Brong Ahafo region after the proprietor allegedly assaulted some teachers.

According headmaster of the school, Mr Adams Abudi, the proprietor, Sheikh Kyei allegedly slapped Adjei Badu, a teacher in the school for questioning his interruption of examinations. 

Mr Abudi said in an interview with Myjoyonline.com "The teacher was taking the students through examination guidelines when he entered and demanded that they greeted him. The teacher questioned him and before he could say anything again, Sheikh slapped him."

The school was established by Sheikh and he handed over the Junior High section of the school to the GES in 2012, according to Mr Abudi.

He alleged that the Sheikh still manages the primary section of the school but has been interfering in the management of the Junior High School on countless occasions.

"He has been coming over to film the students every now and then," Mr Abudi alleged.

The school authorities had written to Techiman North District Education to inform them about the issue.

At about 8:00am on December 9, 2015, as preparations were ongoing for the school’s end of term examinations, the proprietor stormed the school to take some pictures but this disrupted activities in the school.

"Mr Adjei Badu tried to tell him that examinations were ongoing and that attracted two slaps," the headmaster said.

He added that "Sheikh Kyei went to call about four teachers from the primary school to help him beat up the teacher who had retaliated the slap [given him]. That was when the situation turned bloody."

Mr Abudi said he run to a police station to report but when the police arrived, about four of the JHS students who tried to defend Kyei Badu and three other teachers had been rushed to the Holy Family hospital in Techiman.

He added that all seven of them have been treated and discharged.

Meannwhile, Dora Kyeiwaa, daughter of Sheikh Kyei has refuted the allegations made against his father. According to her, Mr Adjei Badu and some other teachers in the school attacked her father when he visited the school due to a long standing dispute.

"My father had gone there to wish the pupils well and advise them against examination malpractices but the teachers started questioning him. He told them he did not need permission from them to enter a school he built so they started attacking him and that is how it all begun," she said.

Police in the region say they are yet to make arrests but have begun investigations into the matter.