*By Kingsley Mawuli Dogbey*

The Presbyterian Boys Secondary School, Legon (PRESEC) has confirmed that the two teenagers, who stormed a supermarket at Pokuase, beat up the shopkeeper and locked him up in a deep freezer, all in an attempt to rob the shop of its wares, are indeed, final year students of the school but truants.

Patrick Tweneboah Kodua and Razak Busare were sacked from the school’s boarding house and made day students as a result of their improper conduct in the school.

The Headmaster, Mr. Africanus Kwame Anane’s secretary made the assertion to The Herald when this reporter visited the campus at Legon- Accra to enquire from him what kind of students they are.

The female secretary, who was outright snobbish and would not allow this reporter to see the headmaster, said the parents of the students were the “right people to tell you more about them because they are day students,” adding that they do not even attend school anymore.

Information available to The Herald indicates that Patrick, who is in the grips of the police, was being processed for court as at yesterday.

Meanwhile* **the Member of Parliament** *for the* **Madina**-**Abokobi** *Constituency, Alhaji Amadu B. Sorogho, has denied any link to one of the suspect Razak Busare, who is presently on the run. One of his two sons, Ali Amadu Sorogho who was in the school, completed some five years ago, and went ahead to graduate from the Islamic University.

The MP’s other son, Prince Amadu Sorogho is only 7 years old and is in primary one, he told The Herald via phone from Parliament, last Wednesday.

Snippets of information picked up by The Herald identify Razak Busare to be the son of one Alhaji Boi Busare, a businessman who is into export and import.* *

The Herald last Monday carried a story of two final year students of PRESEC who raided the “ACP One Stop Supermarket’’ and threw the shopkeeper, Evans Yao Anane into a deep freezer after beating him into a state of unconsciousness and attempted to ransack items in the store when the victim regained consciousness and shouted for help.* *

One of them, Patrick Tweneboah Kodua, was arrested and put in police custody after he was chased and apprehended by ACP Estate security personnel with the help of some people in the neighborhood and handed over to the Pokuase Police. He has been remanded in police custody. His accomplice, Razak Busare, however managed to escape and has since been on the run.

The two students had entered the shop and picked items amounting to about GH¢160 but could not pay. Patrick started making frantic phone calls to a supposed uncle whom he (Patrick) said also lives in the ACP Estates to bring him money for them to pay for the items.

After the pretentious call, the victim said, Patrick told him they had to return some of the items since the uncle had complained that the cost was too much for him to bear.

They later grabbed the shopkeeper by the neck, landed hefty blows on him and bundled him into a deep freezer. Some minutes later, the victim somehow regained consciousness and started screaming and forcing the deep freezer open when a passerby heard him and raised the alarm. The two lads dashed out of the store in an attempt to flee but luck eluded Patrick and he was arrested and handed over to the police.

This is the second time that this highly revered school is in the news for the wrong reason.

Sometime in 2006, acts of financial impropriety by authorities amounting to the tune of ¢4 billion, was reported by the Public Agenda newspaper. A five-member investigative committee made up of the Chief Internal Auditor of GES headquarters; Konadu Antwi, CHASS Regional Chairman and Headmaster of Accra Academy; Ofori Agyei, Regional internal Auditor GES (Accra); Osei Kwadwo, GES Regional Accountant; Mr. Peasah with Eva Awumey as secretary was tasked by the Ga-East District Director of education to probe the matter.

The then Principal Bursar of the school, Mr. Gyeni Sampong, later admitted misappropriating only ¢2 billion in a handwritten note to the Audit Report Implementation Committee. The note was interestingly guaranteed by the then headmaster of the school, Mr. J.J Asare, that the money would be refunded