Multiple award-winning gospel musician Diana Hamilton has recounted on a near-rape situation she encountered while in school at an inter schools competition.
Speaking in an interview with Naa Ashokor on the newday program, Naa Ashokor asked the gospel musician about challenges she has encountered. She quizzes Diana Hamilton about which of the challenges stands out as the one thing that could have taken her a different way but for the grace of God brought her back.
“So many of them,” the gospel musician answered.
She recounted that back in her high school days as a first year student in Ghana National College, a sixth former sold her out to a group of ‘big boys’ to be raped. According to the gospel musician, it was during an inter schools competition.
“It was an interco and a sixth former literally sold me out to some big boys and it took the hand of God not to have been raped. I look at that and it was the doing of the Lord to snatch me out of their hands, I was that close,” Diana Hamilton revealed.
Asked about how she escaped that, the gospel musician said that it was the first week of her first year in the school. She had visited Aggrey Memorial School for the inter schools competition when her school mother asked her to follow these ‘big boys’ for some biscuits.
“By the time I realized, one was infront of me, one was behind and I was in the middle. One opened the door and there was another girl. I thought it was two boys and two girls going somewhere.”
According to the Adom and mo ne yo crooner, by the time she realized, she found herself at Cape Coast kotokuraba, in a funny area.
“It took God to grant an excess one girl the courage to tell the sixth formers I will not enter this house.”
In the interview, she reaffirms her faith in the Lord as she says her favorite verse in the Bible is “the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.”
“Because right at the entrance of that gate sat a woman who was feeding her sheep and goats some leaves. And this woman didn’t say a word,she just sat there and watched. And I kept standing my point,I said I won’t enter this house for hours. Had that woman left,these guys would have dragged me in and I don’t know what would have happened,” she recounted.
When Naa Ashokor asked her if she ever reported the incidence, she said “when I came back to school and I told my school mother, she said, don’t tell anybody and that’s where it ended.”
