Ghana Police have arrested six students of Aggrey Memorial African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Senior High School (SHS) in Cape Coast following the brutal assault and robbery of a final-year student of Adisadel College after a sports festival.
The attack, which has sparked widespread outrage, is part of a broader wave of violence recorded during inter-school sports competitions in the Central Region in recent weeks.
Details of the precise circumstances remain under investigation, but police confirmed the six suspects were apprehended in connection with the attack on the Adisadel College student. The victim, a final-year student at the Anglican boys’ boarding school popularly known as Adisco, was assaulted and robbed following an inter-school sports event in Cape Coast.
The incident has drawn a swift response from education authorities. The Ghana Education Service (GES) convened an emergency crisis meeting on Sunday, February 23, 2026, a day before the arrests were confirmed, to address the surge in violence at inter-school sporting events across the Central Region.
The meeting, chaired by GES Director-General Ernest Kofi Davis, brought together regional education officials, and heads of schools including Aggrey Memorial SHS, Adisadel College, and several others, to assess the situation and propose measures to restore safety and discipline in school sporting activities.
Davis condemned the acts of aggression, stating that such behaviour undermines the principles of discipline, sportsmanship, and mutual respect that inter-school competitions are meant to uphold.
The Adisadel College assault is the latest in a string of incidents involving inter-school rivalries in Cape Coast, a city home to several of Ghana’s most prominent secondary schools. Aggrey Memorial and Adisadel College are both long-established institutions in the coastal capital, with a history of competing across academic and sporting events.
The arrested students are expected to be processed by the police and face charges in connection with the assault and robbery. The Ghana Police Service has not yet issued a formal statement on the charges to be preferred.
The GES crisis meeting, which also included officials from the Central Regional Education Directorate, recommended additional security safeguards for future inter-school competitions to prevent similar occurrences.
