Fresh details have emerged that not a single student from the Islamic Senior High School has been involved in any accident on the Abrepo-Barekese highway in the last two years.
The police in Kumasi resorted to the use of tear gas to quell a protest at the school located on that stretch last year.
At least 38 students sustained injuries and were taken to the hospital after the police allegedly fired tear gas to quell the protest which had extended from the campus.
The students were protesting what they say were frequent vehicular knockdowns in front of their school.
But Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah said the claims were “false”.
The minister made these remarks during an interaction with staff of the Department of Urban Roads as part of his routine visit to government agencies.
The minister said although there had been accidents on the stretch, not one of the accidents involved any of the students.
“The initial information that came out that several students have been knocked down by vehicles was false, that information was a lie. We checked back two years, and from Abrepo junction to Kumasi girls senior high school, even though there had been accidents where people were knocked down, not one involved the students, the risk is there but it wasn’t true.”
Ashanti regional director of Urban Roads ING. Francis Gambrah has been providing additional information on ongoing plans to upgrade that stretch.
The minister also toured the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), the Ghana Highway Authority and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
Jonathan Ofori
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