Teachers watched my grandson bleed – head of the family

The family of the late Edward Borketey Sackey, the graduating student of O'Reilly Senior High School (SHS) who was stabbed to death by his colleague on September 2, 2024, has accused teachers at the school of being responsible for their son's death.

According to the family, images of the incident showed the teachers sitting while their son was stabbed multiple times.

The head of the deceased student's family, Nii Afotey Chiribour IV, said in an interview with GhanaWeb TV's #SayItLoud that teachers not only watched his grandson being stabbed to death, but also did not lift a finger as he bled to death before their eyes.

He claimed that the inaction of teachers, who were supposed to be responsible for the students, made them responsible for the death of the late Edward Borketey Sackey.

“More than 15 teachers' vehicles were parked at the school during the incident. The child was stabbed right in front of them. The boy was lying right in front of them but they did nothing. The boy was lying there bleeding. By the time he was taken to the hospital, he had bled to death and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

“If they (the teachers) had taken him to the hospital earlier, he would have survived. The boy ran to them to save him from his attacker but they did not come to his aid and watched him being stabbed to death in front of them,” he told GhanaWeb's Ishmael Batoma in Ga dialect.

Nii Chiribour IV said his children almost lynched the teachers after seeing the images, but the teachers spent hours begging them not to take the law into their own hands and they left the school.

“They (the teachers) are the ones who killed my child. So my sons came to beat them and kill them. I was very angry but I had to stop them because if I had let them, we would have broken the law as the police were already involved. So I calmed them down and told them that if they touched the teachers they would be arrested. I begged them not to do anything and let the police do their job – it took two hours to calm them down. Because I was their father, they respected me and left the school,” he added.

Attempts by the GhanaWeb team to get a reaction from the principal of O'Reilly SHS regarding the incident and the family's allegations proved futile.

Meanwhile, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that it will investigate the stabbing incident.

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