The Inspector-General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare is due to touch down in Kumasi shortly following the clash between the Police and the protesting Islamic students that left over 30 students hospitalised.

The IGP is billed to visit the victims of the clash mainly students who were reportedly tear-gassed while demonstrating on Monday.

He’ll also get first-hand information from the Police Command in relation to the circumstances that led to the rumpus in the school.

Background

Dozens of students of the Islamic Senior High School at Abrepo in the Ashanti Region are reported to have passed out after police allegedly opened tear gas on them during a demonstration over frequent knockdowns in front of the school.

The students in the course of the demonstration are said to have blocked the road in front of their school denying motorists the opportunity of using that road.

This resulted in the Police being invited to clear the roadblock and break up the protest.

Several shots of tear gas left many of the students unconscious and were rushed to the hospital by officers of the National Ambulance Service.