{
  "id": 14430167,
  "title": "Obuasi SHTS: Some parents being threatened to drop case – Father on headteacher’s alleged sexual abuse",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/obuasi-shts-some-parents-being-threatened-to-drop-case-father-on",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-14T10:44:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Adom Online",
    "slug": "adom-online",
    "url": "https://www.adomonline.com/obuasi-shts-some-parents-being-threatened-to-drop-case-father-on-headteachers-alleged-sexual-abuse/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "John Kwaku Bobena, a father of a student at Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SHTS), claims some parents of affected students are being threatened into abandoning the matter of alleged sexual abuse by headmaster Zakaria Abdulai. Bobena insists the case should proceed without intimidation, stating he was recently told by a radio station that investigations have found no wrongdoing on Abdulai's part. Despite this, Bobena maintains the allegations are not a personal vendetta against Abdulai, noting his daughter was not the only student affected. He questions why he did not make a similar allegation when one of his daughters completed the school last year. Bobena urges the truth to emerge and justice to be served. The Ghana Education Service has interdicted Abdulai pending the investigation, directing him to make himself available for questioning and hand over school management to the Ashanti Regional Director of Education.",
  "summary": "A father of a student of Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SHTS), who was allegedly sexually abused by the interdicted headmaster, Zakaria Abdulai, says some parents of affected students are being threatened to abandon the matter. John Kwaku Bobena made the allegation in an interview on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem, insisting that the case should […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "Father jailed 24 years for raping daughter",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/father-jailed-24-years-for-raping-daughter",
        "published": "2026-10-14T09:38:48.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Adom Online",
        "title": "Obuasi SHTS: My daughter may quit school to help on my cocoa farm – Father of victim in headteacher’s alleged sexual abuse case",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/obuasi-shts-my-daughter-may-quit-school-to-help-on-my-cocoa-farm",
        "published": "2026-10-14T10:57:36.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}