Suspected thief stoned to death in front of Methodist Church at Ashtown.
A suspected thief has been stoned to death in front of the Ashtown Methodist Church in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti.
The unidentified man believed to be in his mid-thirties was allegedly lynched to death for attempting to steal in the area in the wee hours of Sunday, July 24, 2022.
The lifeless body of the deceased who is a well-built man was left at the back of the church building by his unknown assailants.
An eyewitness who unanimously spoke to OTEC News' Kwame Agyenim Boateng disclosed that she heard noise of people shouting and chasing the suspected thief around the area but could not go forward.
"Yes I heard the noise of some people beating the alleged thief but couldn't go forward because I was afraid.
"I don’t know what he attempted to steal here but I woke up in the morning only to discover the body of the deceased at the back of the church building."
Some residents in the area expressed worry over the rampant robbery attacks in the area and called on security in the metropolis to take necessary actions to curb the menace
This particular incident, they noted, was the tenth time a suspected thief was lynched to death in the area in the last four years.
While the residents were concerned about the serial killing of suspected robbers in the area, they were equally worried about how some thieves have been terrorizing residents in the area.
The body of the deceased was still left in a bush at the back of the church building at the time of filing this report.
The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has assured that the school calendar for the 2022/23 academic year will not be impacted significantly by the two-week strike action embarked on by teacher unions across the country.
He said as part of the measures put in place to ensure that the lost time during the strike action was recovered, regional and district directors had been instructed to liaise with the various heads of schools to put in some form of interventions for the students.
These interventions, he said included organising extra classes for the students, especially in the schools whose teachers embarked on the immediate strike action.
Speaking to the Ghanaian Times via telephone, Prof. Opoku-Amankwa explained that even though the strike action lasted for two weeks, it coincided with a number of public holidays thereby reducing the number of days the teachers refused to go to the classroom.
Furthermore, he said some of the schools had the full stream of their teachers teaching their students at the initial stages.
Despite this, he said the service was leaving no stone unturned in ensuring that the calendar is not distorted.
He called on the general public to be rest assured that everything was being done to recover every lost time no matter how small the lost period was.
Prof. Opoku-Amankwa said their checks revealed that all teachers were back to post and effective teaching and learning had started.
He, therefore, urged parents whose wards were yet to return to school to ensure that they went back to school in earnest.
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