Four students have been arrested by the Weija Divisional Police following a fight at Christian Methodist Senior High School in Aplaku.

The fight, which broke out between students and local youth, was triggered by a dispute over a missing mobile phone.

According to reports, tensions flared when an argument escalated into a violent clash. Some individuals allegedly used clubs, resulting in injuries to students and damage to school property.

Investigations revealed that students frequently charge their phones at a nearby shop, where they are assigned identification numbers for retrieval.

The altercation began when one student allegedly used another’s number to wrongfully claim a phone that was not his.

The conflict intensified when the peers of the student whose phone was taken confronted the alleged culprit, sparking a physical altercation among the students.

In an attempt to escape harm, the accused student fled to the phone charging center for shelter. This prompted local youth to intervene on his behalf, resulting in a confrontation between them and the students.

“The students can be troublesome sometimes. They attacked their student beating him to a pulp. They even destroyed the properties of the shop owner where they used to charge the phone. They later went ahead and stabbed some of the area boys in the eye.

“The area boys were angry because they attacked and destroyed Allhaji the shop owner’s property in his shop, leading to chaos. Some of the students were hurt in the process and the same applies to the area boys.

“The way they are behaving it looks like they are land guards and not students because this is unacceptable,” an eyewitness confirmed.

“We see them smoking Indian hemp here openly and if you talk about it they attack you. We see them using hard substances like tramadol and I wonder why this is happening so,” the eyewitness added.

Following the violent clash between students and local youth over a stolen phone, teachers are urging authorities to temporarily close the school to facilitate a resolution.

Meanwhile, on Friday, February 28, the Ghana Police Service took charge of security at Christian Methodist School in New Aplaku, Weija, in the Greater Accra Region to restore calm after the incident.