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Tamale, Ghana – It’s nearly two weeks since a tutor of the Tamale School of Hygiene by name Solomon Ossom Asare alias King Solomon assaulted a female first year student who turned down a romantic proposal from him.
The tutor is alleged to be forcing female students to enter into romantic relationship with him and those that turn down his request often incur his wrath.
The latest incident involving King Solomon has to do with him persistently pestering a first year female student by name Portia to have a romantic relationship with him.
Considering the way things were going, the victim finally decided that she could no longer tolerate her tutor and told him she was not interested in having any relationship with him, that is according to one of our multiple sources in the school.
On the night of Saturday May 4, 2019, Portia went to the roadside near the school to buy mobile airtime and while on her way back to her dormitory, King Solomon appeared from nowhere calling her to stop for a minute chat.
According to our source who wants to remain anonymous, King Solomon verbally assaulted Portia by calling her a foolish and unwise girl who has been going around telling people on campus that he has proposed to her.
Dumbfounded by the sudden change of attitude by her father-tutor towards her, she kept quiet but he aggressively held her by the neck and kept insulting the visibly shaken poor lady.
He eventually left Portia but not without telling her “you’ll see”, a statement she found to be life-threatening and decided to call her parents and inform them about what happened.
Preliminary investigations by the school authorities had revealed that King Solomon actually asked his student to go out with him. According to Mr. Seiwu Bello, acting Principal, King Solomon was questioned in a meeting on Friday May 10, 2019 and he admitted that he had been asking his student to have an affair with him.
He told this reporter that, King Solomon would be queried by management of the school in order to serve as a deterrent to others who may want to behave like him.
But fresh information reaching Savannah News indicates that King Solomon is still going about his duties and there has not been any attempt by authorities of the school to investigate the matter since it was brought their attention.
He still goes to school to teach, supervise ongoing mid-term exams and other assignments whereas Mr. Bello and senior other officials, according to our sources on campus, keep blaming Portia for being the one who leaked information about the unfornate incident to the media including her parents.
Meanwhile, some female students who earlier spoke to Savannah News, called for widespread investigations by government through the Ministry of Sanitation into the management of the school, recommending specifically the transfer of some particular tutors whom they labeled “notorious womanisers”.
According to the students who want to remain anonymous, many female students are in a fixed as they cannot report tutors who make sexual advances at them because they are afraid they will be deliberately failed in their exam.
“Honestly speaking, I wish the school was 60 or 80 percent female. Very few of the male tutors are good. The rest makes studying in this school very traumatizing. There’s a group of tutors including Mr. Solomon who are engaged in this devilish act. When you offend one, you offend the whole group.
“I have heard one of our tutor’s, madam Huzeima once called all the female students when she was housemistress to advise them against any form of sexual harassment. But some of the students went behind her and told the tutors they were dating. I wasn’t here but when I gained admission into the school I heard it from our seniors. So you see, we the students we’re also our own enemies”, one of the students disclosed.
A tutor also added: “My brother, you see this school, only three people are running it. It’s as if the school is theirs. The Minister and the Chief Director at the Ministry of Sanitation (which is responsible for managing all three Schools of Hygiene in the country) must put their feet on the ground and do something. Some of us when we talk, they sideline us in anything they do. So we have kept quiet waiting for this kind of investigation to trigger more investigations from the top, I’m talking about the ministry level, into the school”.
By Savannahnewsonline.com/Joseph Ziem
