BECE candidate, other drown

A final year Junior High School pupil preparing to write this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) beginning August 7, 2023, has drowned at Hununya in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern region. The incident occurred in the afternoon of Saturday, July 22, 2023.

Starr News has gathered that a national service teacher with Nkurakan M/A Basic School, Robert Adzrakor, took the victim -Teye Joseph and three other students namely Tamatey Bernard, Agyapong Richmond and Odonkor Dominic, all 17 years old final year JHS students from the same school to his backyard garden farm at Hununya to work for him.

After close of work, the students went to the river Ponpon a major river which takes a source from Boti waterfall, to wash down. However, the victim and two other students slipped and fell into the river.

Tamatey Bernard, skilled in swimming saved two of the students but Teye Joseph was retrieved dead.

The National Service Teacher reported himself to the police to assist the investigation. In a related but separate development, a 15year old boy and a class 6 pupil of Islamic Primary School, Begoro in Fanteakwa North district in Eastern Region have also drowned in an open manhole.

The deceased, Mustapha Abdul-Rakim, reportedly slipped and fell into the manhole during a heavy downpour. Water in the manhole was drained with a water-pumping machine before his lifeless body was retrieved.

Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM/Kojo Ansah