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Students hiding phones in their private parts—Zebilla SHS headmaster reveals
The Zebilla SHS headmaster, Richard Akumbas Ayabilla, has expressed outrage about students hiding phones in their private parts.
He stressed that some students even hide their phones in shito and gari to smuggle them into the school.
According to the headmaster, students now go the extra mile in trying to bypass school rules.
Speaking on Dreamz FM’s Breakfast Today show, Richard Akumbas Ayabilla stated, “There are times the girls will hide it (phone) in their private parts, others hide it in their shito and gari and enter school”.
His comments come after the violence that erupted at the Zuarungu Senior High School on Sunday, July 20, 2025.
According to reports, the altercation escalated into an ethnically sparked violence, resulting in the burning of school structures and the widespread tension across the school community.
However, Zuarungu Senior High School was later shut down by the Upper Regional Minister due to the violent clashes between the Frafra and the Kusasi.
The Minister affirm that, the incident escalated when the student who lost his phone approached the alleged thief with two friends to retrieve his phone.
Speaking on Morning Starr on Tuesday, July 22, Donatus Akamugri Atanga, the Upper East Regional Minister, stated, “From the reports that I was given when I engaged the management with my REGSEC member.
On Saturday night, one of the students from the Nakpanduri area in the Northeast Region, was alleged to have stolen a mobile phone belonging to another student from the Kusasi area.”
“In the scuffle, the accused student also had two boys with him, and then the whole issue broke into a fight,” he recounted.
He added, “Where the other students started joining was because of the friends’ involvement. It wasn’t clearly anything associated with tribal lines.”
“The class—you know the youth—also fell in line and joined the riot.”
Donatus Akamugri Atanga emphasized that what revealed was a youth-driven misunderstanding that blew into a larger conflict.
Meanwhile, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has commended Donatus Akamugri Atanga, the Upper East Regional Minister, for his closure of the Zuarungu Senior High School.
Thomas Musah, the General Secretary, noted that the Regional Minister’s directive was essential in de-escalating the situation and safeguarding lives and property.
The GNAT General Secretary stated, “There are things you do not joke with: religion, culture, ethnicity, and other related matters. These are emotional things; they are not rational things.
What we are hearing is some kind of ethnic violence, and I think that the best thing is what the minister has done to cool tempers, and then later they regroup them again,” he added.
