Students at 2 SHSs in Bawku smoke peace pipe by burying an okro stick in line with tradition

The Bawku Senior High School and the Bawku Technical Institute who are located close to each other have not been the best of neighbours due to certain unresolved misunderstanding among their students.

For the past three decades, student riots between these two schools have been rampant leading to loss of properties and injuries.

As part of ending the three decades of institutional conflict between the two educational institutions, the two schools through the guidance of the Kpalwega traditional rulers, buried an okro stick to signify the end of the student riots.

This initiative has come at the right time when the Bawku chieftaincy conflict is unending despite measures put into place by the government to end the conflict.

Incidentally, five students from both schools have sustained different degrees of injury after a misunderstanding erupted during the ceremony to bury the okro stick. Tensions escalated, and students from both schools began hurling stones at each other, disrupting the event and leaving many injured.

But that did not prevent the organisers from achieving the purpose of the event as the okro stick was finally buried.

The Bawku Divisional Police Command acted swiftly to bring the situation under control, while the injured students were rushed to Quality and Vineyard hospitals in Bawku for medical attention.

Calm has since returned to the two schools after the intervention of the military and other security services.

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