The Proprietress of a self-styled Islamic International School in the Ga West Municipality has been arrested and interrogated by the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) for physical abuse of Children in the school.
According to MyNewsGh.com a Member of Parliament prompted our editors about happenings within the school. This is the first part in a series we are releasing on the school including how pictures of the school’s children with bread are used to entice Saudi Arabia Charities to support Malama Dangana.
Malama Dangana International School is owned and administered by a Herbalist turned school administrator known as Fatima Mohammed who reportedly abuses the children in the school using “Sharia-law like” systems to run the school on the boarding system.
Several parents have reported how their children were physically abused snd assaulted with bad cane and belt wounds in the school while the said Malama Dangana insult parents who withdraw their wards that they can’t do anything to her as she is “powerful” with links to the top echelon of the Muslim Community.
In the case of one child whose abuse got to DOVVSU Amasaman with severe cane marks on the child’s bare backs, DOVVSU investigators were allegedly influenced to downplay the severity of the child’s serious wounds. This was after the DOVVSU officials held a private “meeting” with Malama Dangana in her private car at their premises in what eyewitnesses told MyNewsGh.com was a private “settlement”.
Malama Dangana was advised by the same DOVVSU officials to go and beg and settle with the child’s parents and come back with them.
In the case of one child who reportedly received more than 30 lashes on his bare back for not praying one of Islam’s 5 daily prayers, Malama Dangana recorded a video interrogating the child and uploaded same saying her actions were justified.
The Director of DOVVSU at the Amasaman Branch and DOVVSU investigators who chose to settle the matter out of court ordered for compensation to be paid instead of taking the matter through the due process of the law.
DOVVSU is expected to, among its numerous functions provide free services to members of the public; protect the rights of the vulnerable against all forms of abuse be it physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, socio-economic, or harmful cultural practices, as is reportedly happening in the Malama Dangana International School.
DOVVSU is also expected to establish an effective database for crime detection, prevention and prosecution while treating victims and complainants and their families with respect and courtesy.
DOVVSU Amasaman and its investigators handling the Malama Dangana International School case proved to be more interested in protecting the accused Herbalist than the victim or the families.
Had DOVVSU conducted thorough Investigations. MyNewsGh.com understands the extent of Child abuse in her so-called school would have been exposed for authorities to rescue the rest of the children.
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