Students and teachers of Asare Bediako Senior High School at Akrokerri in the Ashanti Region are calling on the security agencies to rid their school of illegal galamsey miners. They have petitioned the Adansi North District assembly and the Obuasi Divisional Police Command to halt the operations of the miners. Authorities say the miners have resorted to using dynamite to blast rocks on the school land to extract gold. The blasts have created panic amongst students and teachers, disrupting academic work. Even though the assembly has written to the Obuasi police to evict the miners, action has not been taken for over three months now. A tutor, Joseph Osei Poku, told Luv News students have a hard time concentrating in class due to the frequent blasts. Evening studies are also ineffective because of the blasts which are carried out day and night. The students also live in fear of being attacked by strangers who now roam their school compound mining gold. Headmaster of the school, Charles Nuako Nuako said unless immediate action is taken to halt the operations of the illegal miners, the schools structures which have already developed cracks will eventually collapse with disastrous consequences.