Sisters working in the educational sector in the Kwahu Afram Plains North District in the Apostolic Vicariate of Donkorkrom have joined other stakeholders to mourn the death of Agbenyo Prince, a Form 3 pupil of Nana Baadu JHS.
The sad event occurred at Bruben during a Zonal School tournament on March 14, 2025.
The Sisters joined in the removal of mortal remains and burial of the young boy to empathize with the school authorities, families of Abiaku and Adigbli, and the Education Directorate. Among the Sisters present were Sr. Stella Nwosu, MSHR, Headmistress of Holy Rosary School, Asikasu – Donkorkrom, and Sr. Dora Pearl Tsetse, SMMC, Headmistress of St. Theresa’s R/C Basic School, Kwaekese.
The March 29, 2025, sorrowful event of the removal of a corpse featured over a hundred sympathizers from across Donkorkrom and beyond gathered in front of the Presbyterian Hospital Mortuary, at Donkorkrom, where the deceased had been laid. There was a viewing of the corpse, the ritual of calling out the Class Register and cancelling the name of the deceased off the register, performed, and a wreath was symbolically presented to the family.
The corpse was then conveyed to the cemetery at the St. Theresa’s R/C Basic School grounds, at Kwaekese, where he was laid to rest, after some traditional rituals were performed. Mourners then proceeded to the family compound at Donkorkrom for other rites. 
Others present for the corpse removal and burial were the Ghana Education Service, who were the Chief mourners, led by the District Director for Kwahu Afram Plains North, Madam Victoria A. Y. Barku, accompanied by forces of Law and Order. Also present were the Administration, staff, and learners of Nana Baadu JHS, together with some staff of other Private Schools around Donkorkrom.
Others were Mr. Vincent Abiaku Agbenyo and Madam Felicia Adigbli, parents of the deceased, other family members, friends, and well-wishers.
In an interview with the writer, Madam Barku, District Director of Education, expressed deep sentiments to everyone who has stood by them throughout their period of bereavement.
“We appreciate everybody for the collaboration from the day the incidence happened up till today; Everybody cooperated and we sent our student home” she affirmed and prayed “May the good Lord bless everybody and may the Lord continue to console us, to comfort everybody, especially the parents of Prince,” she prayed.
The Education Boss, who happened to have been present at Bruben on that fateful day to cheer the players during the March 14 finals, disclosed that the unfortunate incidence of Prince’s death occurred during the habitual Zonal School tournaments, which this year was hosted at Bruben, from March 10 to 14, 2025. 
She painfully recounted the sad event leading to the demise, saying that, reports from the teachers that had accompanied the students for the games revealed that, three students had gotten into a canoe at the nearby lake, after serious caution from the teachers, the previous day, for them not to go to the lake by themselves, unless being accompanied by the teachers, and while the other two managed to sail their way to the shore, the diseased jumped into the water, where he met his end, and the two survivors had rushed back to the games venue to break the sad news.
“It was rather unfortunate,” she regretted, as she prayed that nothing of the sort ever happen again.
By Sr. Sylvie Lum Cho, MSHR (Sister Communicator / DEPSOCOM AVD)
