No witness saw suspended Obuasi SHTS headmaster bury foetus on school compound – Investigative
A committee that investigated the August 2026 disturbances at Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SHTS) has concluded that none of the students or teachers who appeared before it witnessed the headmaster burying a foetus on the school compound as had been alleged.
The committee also said an allegation that the headmaster’s vehicle had been seen at the burial site was unsupported by the evidence, noting that the location could not be accessed by vehicle.
According to the committee, evidence from students indicated that the discovery was first reported to housemasters around midday. The allegation linking the headmaster to the burial emerged later that night.
The committee further established that the Assistant Headmaster in charge of domestic affairs led a team to the site.
Investigators said this sequence was significant in assessing the allegations subsequently made against him.
The committee found that the cutlass belonged to a school labourer and that the headmaster handed it to a student in the presence of students and teachers gathered for the distribution of furniture and beds donated by the Parent-Teacher Association.
According to the findings, the student was instructed to deliver the cutlass to a mechanic working on the headmaster’s private vehicle at his residence. The committee said this happened around 8 a.m. on 4 August.
It concluded that the account of the headmaster secretly handing over a cutlass after emerging from the bush was inconsistent with the evidence presented.
However, the committee said its efforts to establish a complete account of the discovery were hampered by the refusal of teachers who appeared before it to identify the students who initially found the site or accompanied them there.
Its findings relate to the August disturbances and are separate from a fresh investigation commissioned by the Ghana Education Service following a recent JoyNews investigation into another allegation of sexual abuse against the headmaster, Zakaria Abdulai.
