Deputy Ranking Member of Ghana’s Parliamentary Sports Committee, Michael Aidoo, has called for the security service to do more in the face of a rise in student clashes that have often turned violent during sports events.
In recent weeks, multiple clashes involving senior high school students have turned violent during inter school sports activities including a student of the Koforidua Senior High Technical School getting stabbed at the Eastern Regional Inter Schools Sports Festival.
Clashes at the Baba Yara Stadium during the Ashanti Regional Inter Schools Soccer Competition led to angry students destroying 3,955 seats in protest.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Citi Sports on this issue, Michael Aidoo, who doubles as the Member of Parliament for Oforikrom Constituency stated,
“I think it’s quite unfortunate what happened in the Kumasi Sports Stadium (Baba Yara Stadium).
“I think the security services have to put their feet on the ground, understand the schools, where their rivalries lie, the history behind the rivalry and so on.”
A student of Koforidua Senior High Technical School (SECTECH) has been stabbed during disturbances linked to the Eastern Regional Inter-Schools Sports Festival in Koforidua, prompting fears of reprisal attacks and heightened security concerns.
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“When there is a sports program, the security services are to beef security, the National Sports Authority, the Education Service in charge of the sports directorate, the headmasters, they have to meet the security services, brief them so that they understand, then they can manage the students as and when they come to the stadium.”
