Three final year students of the Saint Augustines College at Cape Coast have been suspended indefinitely for smoking Indian hemp. The headmaster of the school, Mr. Jerry Koomson who disclosed this at a Parent Teacher Association (PTA) meeting said the students started behaving abnormally after smoking the Hemp and were sent to the school administration by some of their collagues. Two of them were calmed down but the behaviour of the third student worsened and was therefore admitted at the Ankaful Psychaitric Hospital in the Central Region.

The two students who were calmed reported at the school to write the Oral English paper in the on-going Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations (SSSCE). The third, however, did not turn up. The Board of Governors of the School is to hold an emergency meeting to determine whether the students will be allowed to sit the rest of the examinations.

Mr. Koomson noted that drug addiction is one of the major problems of the school, noting however that acts of indiscipline being experienced in the school is a general reflection of indisclipline in second cycle schools nationwide.

“The time has come for all of us to recognize that the drug problem and its associated crimes of theft, rape and abseentism is right here with us whether we care to believe it or not.” The headmaster therefore urged parents and guardians to assist teachers in the training of their wards to ensure that they become useful citizens in future.