A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a 39-year-old headmaster was found lifeless at Anyeme in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti region.
Sources at the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the District who confirmed the incident told DailymailGH that Mr Samuel Owusu until his death was the Headmaster of Anyeme D/A Primary School.
Staff and opinion leaders in the farming community mounted a search for the deceased after his motorbike was discovered parked at about 200 meters from his station on Monday, October 21, 2019.
The source told DailymailGH that his lifeless body was found in a nearby bush— a few minutes’ walk from where his motorbike was parked after three days of search.
“Some of the community members thought he was responding to nature’s call in the morning but found his bike still parked near the bush when they returned from the farm so they raised an alarm and we immediately informed the police and a search was mounted. We only discovered his lifeless body badly decomposed last Thursday. We informed the GES and the DCE who recommended his body be buried immediately as the body was exposed to torrential rains”, the source narrated to DailymailGH.com.
The source said the development has thrown residents and the entire staff into a state of shock as they still struggle to ascertain the cause of his death.
It is gathered that an assistant headmaster of the school has been appointed to manage affairs of the school.
The deceased who is a resident of Obuasi left behind a wife and three children.
6 teens beat headmaster to death
News about death of teachers is not common but has been widely reported in recent times.
Six teenagers are standing trial for allegedly assaulting a headmaster to death.
George Somuah Bosompem died at the St. Joseph’s Hospital in Koforidua in the Eastern Region.
All six have been charged with murder by a Magistrate Court.
80 teachers flee Nkoranza North over killings
Elsewhere, at least two teachers have been killed in the Nkoranza North District in the Bono East Region forcing school teachers to flee the area.
On June 15, 2019, Abubakari Karim, aged 28, a teacher at the Senya District Assembly Junior High School was gruesomely murdered in a bizarre circumstance.
The deceased who had successfully organised final year students of the school to write the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), was on his way back from Senya after he had sent the candidates home, when he was reportedly murdered.
Three suspects arrested in connection with that murder and standing trial at the Nkoranza Magistrate Court, have been granted self-enquiry bail.
About two years ago, another teacher Edward Opoku, a circuit supervisor at the Nkoranza North District Education Directorate was murdered in a similar circumstance and his body was dumped at the outskirt of Fiema-Boabeng.
No arrest has since been made.
The Ghana National Association of Teachers in the Nkoranza North District wants the police to step up security in the area.
By J. Ofori, Daily Mail GH
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