I am 28-years old, married with a daughter less than a year old. I am not here because husband didn’t or had a child outisde of marriage.

I am here looking for my sister with the little information I have about her. I have asked relatives and family friends, but no one seems to have any useful information. I have searched her name and her mother’s on Facebook and Instagram, but found nothing. That is why I am here, hoping I can get help.

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This is how my family is.

My father’s name was William Koomson. I was told by my mom that he lived in Dansoman Mataheko for some years, before I was even born, with his father and brother. He used to work at Tema harbor and was also a barber. Because of his work, he lived in a Tema Community 2, in a tall building with many families. It was about five stories high. I stayed there for some holidays.

I have one sibling, a boy. We share the same mother. But the sister I am looking for is not my mother’s daughter. Whenever I visited my father in Tema, I knew there was a lady there called Irene. She was very nice to me. She took care of me and made me feel comfortable. I was about ten years old, so all I knew was that she was my dad’s friend. She lived in the same building, but not in the same room.

 

About a year or two later, she came to visit my dad at Dansoman Mataheko. I did not live with my dad, just like my brother. We live with our mum, but it is just a road that separates where we live from my dad’s house. We used to visit him often. That was when my dad introduced me to a little girl, about two years old, as my sister. Her mother was Auntie Irene. I asked her name. My dad said Emmanuella, and Auntie Irene said Portia. They both agreed she would have both names. That was the last time I saw her.

 

Because I was a child myself, I always asked my dad about her. He would say she was fine. I did not know they had separated. In 2020, I asked my dad about her again. That was when he told me her mother had travelled outside the country. But because they were no longer together, he did not really know if she had taken the child along or left her in someone’s care here in Ghana.

 

I asked if he had any way of reaching her. He said no, but he had the number of a man who was a relative of Auntie Irene. He said he would call him. Even that, I had to mount pressure on him.

 

The day he called the man, he asked me to talk to him. I did. I introduced myself as the child’s sister and said I just wanted to know how she was doing. The man started raining insults. He said we Fantes are not responsible, and if the child is old enough, we want to come and claim her, but that would not happen. Then he hung up on me.

 

The unfortunate thing is that I did not take the man’s number from my dad. Now my father is late. He died in January 2021.

 

It was after his death that I got my sister’s birth certificate. Her name on the certificate is Emmanuella Portia Koomson, born on June 6, 2008. Her mother’s name is Irene Tordi.

It is true my father did not name her and was not responsible. He did the same with me and my brother. It was after his death that my dad’s family came to officially name us, in 2022. I have told them about my sister, but nothing has been done because all I have is her birth certificate.

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I am here asking if someone may know her mother or can help me get to her. I would be so grateful. There has not been a day that a thought of her has not crossed my mind. I just want to find my sister so my heart can be at peace. I just want to know if she is okay.

—Maybel

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