In a violent reprisal, the rampaging students burnt car tyres and hurled stones and other objects. They destroyed four private vehicles on the campus of KASS, school gate as well as billboard and notice board at KTI.

Principal of KTI, Gabriel Kingsford Osei, alleged the students of Kumasi Anglican started attacking KTI with stones and machetes to vandalize their school billboard, Thursday night.

“I pushed my students to the dormitory to prevent any chaos and went to talk to the students of KASS but they disobeyed me. In the midst of them was a security person with a catapult, leading them to cause destruction.

“When I went to the school to speak with the authorities to calm nerves, the KASS students were still throwing stones which led to the retaliation,” he alleged.

But a tutor at KASS, Rev Father Kenneth Collins Owusu, says the clash could be a fallout from arguments at the ongoing inter-schools’ athletics event in Kumasi.

“The least argument between our students and KTI often lead to these confrontations. When a group is provoked, they mobilize their colleagues for such attacks,” he stated.

The Ashanti regional education directorate has invited authorities of both schools to find a lasting solution to the situation.

The police intervened to bring the situation under control, but no arrest has been made as investigations continue.

Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei- Mensah, and GES officials made a swift intervention as security was deployed to halt the planned action on Friday.

It was in protest of management decision to have final year students write their examination in the dining hall instead of the classroom.

But Student Representative Council President, Samuel Opoku Adjei, led a delegation to present the apology letter to Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Mary Owusu Akyaw.

K.T.I. students who have over the years been noted for violence have hardly been seen in such an apologetic demeanour.

Master Adjei Opoku who led the delegation explained,  “We are here to apologies what happened yesterday and this apology letter we have taken it to the Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah, Regional Director of Education and also to our principal”.

“We the part-time (level four) students of Kumasi Technical Institute render unqualified apology for our bad behavior towards the school authorities.

“We deeply regret our actions and humbly plead with the institutes’ authorities to kindly forgive us,” he added.

The students have regretted their actions explaining the unsuccessful vigil was sparked by miscommunication between school authorities and students.

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The students had raised concerns about their poor performance in examinations and also expressed reservations about the change of their examination centre from the classrooms to the dining hall by the Principal, Mrs. Elizabeth Annor-Mensah.

The students said they raised the concerns when they met the Principal but to no avail.

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To them, the continuous stay of the Principal will not help the school, and therefore, decided to stage a demonstration against her to demand her removal.

But at a meeting with the students, the Regional Minister asked the Students Representative Council (SRC) to submit their grievances for action.

He urged them to cease fire and calm down since he is poised to resolve the matter to prevent another chaos in the Ashanti Region following the riots by students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on Monday that led to the destruction of 40 cars, 10 motorbikes as well as school property.

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The Minister met with the management of the school and asked them to submit their report to his office.

He also met with the staff of the school and set up a five-member ad hoc committee which has been tasked to submit a report to him for action.

Security has been tightened in the school subsequently.