THIEVES RAID SCHOOL, KILL WATCHMAN (PAGE 35)

From Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu & Gifty Appiah-Adjei, Takoradi

Thieves broke into the administration block of the Government Secretarial School at Sekondi and made away with a television set after killing the security man on duty.
They tied the hands and legs of the watchman, whose name was given as Moro Kunajwe, aka Baba Issaka, who was said to have been suffocated to death and his body pushed under the stairway that leads to the upper part of the block
The thieves also broke into four other offices and ransacked the place after scattering the contents of every drawer in the offices on the floor.
One of the rooms they broke into contained the belongings of student nurses, and secretarial students resident in the school’s hostel, who are currently on vacation, and made away with valuables.
An eyewitness told newsmen that some of the students informed him that the rooms where the students kept their belongings had been opened.
“I, therefore, moved to the place and found out that it was true. I decided to look for the watchman and ask him why that door was opened and who opened it,” he said.
The eyewitness continued that, “I started shouting the name of the watchman but there was no response. I decided to move around to see if he was behind the building only to discover that he had been tied up and covered with a piece of cloth.
“I went to the Adiembrah Police station to report and when the police arrived and uncovered the body, they discovered that Issaka was dead,” the eyewitness said.
The CID unit of the Sekondi Police, led by the Station’s Crime Officer, Mr A.S. Anyarah, visited the crime scene and cautioned the public to be mindful of the way they rushed to inform radio stations when a crime was committed instead of the police.
He said it was not wrong to inform the radio stations, adding that the police are professionals and that they should be contacted first.
Mr Anyarah said before the case could be reported to the police, some press houses had moved to the scene and interfered with evidence that could give clues to what happened.
However, the officials of the school were not available for comment. The police are continuing with their investigation while the body of the deceased has been deposited at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital mortuary for autopsy.