A trader at Mamfe in the Eastern region has petitioned the Ghana Education Service (GES) to take sanctions against the headmistress of Mamfe Methodist Girls’ Senior High School for selling unauthorised items in the school.
In a petition sent to the Eastern regional directorate of the GES Friday, December 08, 2023, the petitioner, Victorial Awuku, who sells opposite the school says the headmistress has been indulging in the illegal act since 2020, a practice she says she cannot stop because of the huge profit margins she acquires from it.
According to Mrs. Awuku, the headmistress, Winnifred Seibu-Arthur, issued a warning to her to desist from selling certain items in her shop since she was trading in same with the students in the school.
She is calling on the authorities to sanction the woman from profiteering over the Free Senior High School programme, an act which is affront to the policy.
Find below the full letter written to the GES by the resident.
P. O. Box 7
Mampong, Akuapem
8th December, 2023
The Regional Director (Eastern)
Ghana Education Service
Koforidua
Dear Madam,
EVIDENCE AGAINST MRS WINIFRED SEIBU – ARTHUR
HEADMISTRESS, METHODISTS GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL, MAMFE, AKUAPEM FOR ENGAGING IN SALE OF UNAUTHORISED ITEMS
I am a trader residing opposite the Mamfe Community Centre and the Mamfe Police Station and I write to bring to your notice the sale of unauthorised items by Mrs Winifred Seibu-Arthur from 2020 through to 2023 and humbly appeal to you to take the necessary action against her for undermining the Free Senior High School Policy.
I have unimpeachable evidence that since her assumption of duty as Headmistress of the school, she had been selling the following listed items.
Tracksuits
Cardigans
Chest warmers
Green knickers
Round neck T-shirts ( black&white)
I love MEGHIS T-shirts
Underskirts
Checks
White frowns
Sunday church service cloths
( Ahenepa Nkasa )
Plastic chop boxes
Others
The cost of the tracksuits for 2023 is GHC.250
The cost of the cardigan for 2023 is GHC.150
Her sale of these items is an open secret. Management members of the school, teaching and non-teaching staff, students, parents and the community around the school have been aware that she engages in private financial business.
She can not stop because of the huge profits from her sales.
For the sewing of cloths, Mrs Winifred Seibu-Arthur contracts personal relations and this year a teacher.
During the period of the admission process, she uses a female storekeeper at the school who leaves her job and serves as a salesperson at the shop until the admission process ends.
She has some teachers who connive and condone her acts of selling in the school.
Mrs Winifred Seibu-Arthur called me to her house through the woman whose shop she sells to warn me not to sell some specific items otherwise she would withdraw her items from the woman’s shop and sell them in the school.
I responded that she could not restrict me from selling since it was an open market.
I am of the firm conviction that you would take immediate steps to sanction her.
Yours sincerely,
sgd
Victoria Awuku(Mrs)
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