Maltreatment At The Ghana High Commission In Ottawa

The Ghana high commission in Ottawa is in the news again. The High Commissioner and her children are alleged to have subjected their cook, Sammy Yaw Amponsah, to severe harassment.

The Commissioner's 11-year-ols son, Kofi Amoakohene, allegedly poured soup on the cook, beat him up and tore his shirt into pieces.

The High Commissioner, Dr. Margaret ivy Amoakohene(pictured) has also collected a total of seven thousand Canadian dollars from the cook. She collected seven hundred dollars for ten months as the cook's plane ticket. How ever a check from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Accra, Ghana indicates that the cooks plane ticket was paid by the ministry. Again she asked the poor cook to use a total of three hundred dollars every two weeks for grocery for the entire household of the High Commissioner for two months. So far she has collected 8,200 Canadian dollars from the cook.

the cook has so far reported to the Canadian authorities through the Canadian foreign ministry who are investigating the case. The poor cook has been placed in a refugee camp. When the Ghana mission in Ottawa was contacted they acknowledged that the cook has suffered for one year, they have seen the torn shirt, witnessed the cook been harassed by the high commission and are all prepared to make any information n available. They are however pleading that the cooks 8,200 dollars should be retrieved from the High Commissioner.

officers at the High Commission also called on the minister for foreign affairs to come to the aid as they are subjected to all kinds of harassments by Dr. M. I. Amoakohene. They are calling for investigations.