Our headmistress is abusing us – Students of Akropong school for the blind cries out

Students of the Akropong School for the Blind in the Akuapem North Municipality in the Eastern Region are calling for the immediate removal of the school headmistress over what they describe as continuous abuse of leadership role.

The students however embarked on a demonstration for the removal of the headmistress last Friday.

According to the students, the headmistress Mahela Narh is engaged in mismanagement leading to gradual collapse of the school and poor academic performance.

Part of their petition submitted reads, “the Student Representative Council, the silent majority and the progressive Old Students Association are strongly calling for the removal of the headmistress of Akropong School for the Blind for the following reasons:

GROSS DISRESPECT: The headmistress, Madam Mahela Narh has over the years showed gross disrespect and disregard to the dignity of the blind. Examples are as follows:

She has over the years disregarded and disrespected the prefectorial board which is the main body that channel issues bothering students, and a number of appointments booked with her are to no avail.

The rate at which she raises insults and curses students is alarming. A clear example is the 2015 JHS 3 batch “you will all fail your exams and will be miserable in life”. These harsh words compelled a former teacher who was a Reverend Minister by the name of Reverend Henry Kwadwo Gyekete to intervene for the headmistress to reverse the curse which she never did.

She once told the 2018 assistant boys perfect by name Opare Asante that “it is because of your behavior that God made you blind”.

She recently cursed a continuing student by the name of Paulina Osei and the likes of other individual students.

So if a special educator can say and sing this way, then what about the ordinary man on the street.

MISAPPROPRIATION OF DONATION MONIES:

The headmistress secretly lodged donated money which was meant to renovate the school’s music unit from a philanthropist into a dormant World Vision Project account with a retired staff member the late Mr. Amofah who was a signatory to that account, without the knowledge of the school Bursar. It took the intervention of the Municipal Internal Auditor, Mr. Allotey before the money was brought to the main school account, which has not been fully used for its purpose. This means that cash donations received from unknown persons and through school activities and outside have never been accounted for.”