Abenah Serwah Mankosah has spoken after she was invited to the Ghana Education Service’s office in her district for supposed misconduct.
The embattled basic school teacher who single-handedly fed her pupils with warm food every day has constantly been in the news over the past few days for her charitable deeds.
However, the charitable act was deemed as misconduct by the GES which led to her facing the authorities.
Speaking in an interview on Angel TV this morning 15th March 2021, Abenah Serwaa narrated how she was manhandled and treated with disdain by the authorities in the office.
According to Serwaa, ”I was scared and had no one to defend me. When I spoke I was told my English was bad and I even felt they should have sacked me rather than put me this such horrible scrutiny. My headmaster was asked to take my phone and turn it off so that I wouldn’t be able to record what they said.”
“The District Education Officer spoke badly to me and almost beat me up because of how aggressive they became when I was fumbling to answer some of the questions they asked me. I was given a document that I wasn’t privy to in my three years of teaching as the code of Ethics of GES,” she narrated.
She went on saying: ”They treated me as if I was a common criminal and they threatened to arrest me if I was ever seen giving anything to any child. They also told me they were going to take me to a remote area where I wouldn’t be able to feed nor take care of any child again. My education director was not supportive and he allowed them to mistreat me and disrespect me.”
When asked if she will ever stop what she was doing for the kids, Serwaa answered saying; ”I won’t stop cooking for kids but I want to be transferred from the district I am in because I wasn’t treated well. My headmaster has even applauded me for how I was making my kids happy. The GES had a problem with me just because I exposed their evil deeds. The school feeding program is no longer working and they were unhappy about the fact that my actions have made the whole world know they don’t feed the kids as they claimed to do.”
