The Central Regional Command of the Ghana Police Service has arrested three students of Swedru School of Business in Agona Swedru in connection with the assault on a student of Obrachire Senior High Technical School during a district inter-schools athletics competition.
The suspects Joseph Amoh, 20; Benedict Appiah, 18; and Bilal Mamud, 18 are set to be arraigned in court.
In a statement released on Tuesday, February 24, the Central Regional Police Command disclosed that the arrests followed high-level engagements between the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department, COP Lydia Yaako Donkor, and the management of Swedru School of Business (SWESBUS).
“About 9:00 pm of the same day, the authorities of Swedru School of Business brought to the Swedru Divisional Police Command three suspects, all students in the aforementioned school,” the statement reads.
The suspects were picked up following the assault on student of Obrachire Senior High Technical School.
The Central Regional Command condemned the students’ conduct, cautioning the public, particularly students, against engaging in acts of violence that threaten safety within educational institutions.
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Akpekakovi Fiadzigbe, the Obrachire SHS student who was violently attacked during a district inter-schools athletics competition at Agona Swedru in the Central region is calling for justice.
The young student says those who attacked him must be apprehended by the law enforcement agencies and made to face the full rigours of the law.
Fiadzigbe was attacked by students of Swedru School of Business (SWESBUS) who pelted stones at him, breaking a tooth and causing multiple facial injuries during the competition.
A video of the incident has since gone viral on social media, showing suspects throwing stones, hitting him, some stepping on his neck, and others fleeing.
In an exclusive interview with TV3 on Monday, February 23, 2026, after he had been discharged from the hospital, he noted that the suspects attacked him unprovoked, as he was looking for a place to sit to apply his medicine.
“They threw stones at me when I was looking for a place to sit to use the medicine on my eye. It happened unexpectedly,” he stated, stressing that they attacked him unprovoked. “I didn’t do anything.”
According to him, the stones were pelted at him unawares. “I was just standing there and they started throwing the stones. I wasn’t looking. When I turned, I saw my colleagues running but I didn’t know what was happening. By the time I realised, the stone came to hit me.”