The ladies from the royal school. They told us afterwards that, "you have to
come and start one at our school for us. Prempeh are our brothers; when they
lead we follow." After the ceremony, it took more than 30 minutes for their bus
to arrive, so they enjoyed themselves with the drinks and snacks that were
served by our outstanding Protocol Prefects. We overheard one Amanfoo say, "Ei, these ladies are eating papa,
they are going to be turned into some fat chicks when they leave here."
The stage
AMASS folks listening attentively
Demitiah made the crowd excited with his
powerful speech.
The first 5 paragraphs of his speech was delivered fluently. However, when it got to
the 6th paragraph, where he was about to
mention some opponents, he started speaking slowly......"It therefore came as no surprise
to me when the London Times declared Prempeh College as the best second cycle institution
in West Africa, a position that ......
[at this moment Demitiah started saying the following words slowly, mentioning each one by one in a slow motion, almost pronouncing Opoku Ware, O-P-O-K-U W-A-R-E]
.....Adisadel College could not battle with us for. Our arch-rivals, Opoku Ware was no where to be found and the "acclaimed" Wesley Girls High school was just like Opoku Ware -- not listed."
The crowd responded "yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh," which TV-3 showed on TV.
Prof. Kupo displays the quizzes league memorabilia -- some high quality shirts that, according
to Aggrey Housemaster, we "shouldn't have been able to afford that."
Nana Akyempemhene, a product of the Legon Law School, shook the hand of each contestant and congratulated them.
He also shook the hands of Prof. Kupo and Prof. Don. When Nana first grabbed the mic, his first words were, "This initiative here,
is the first of its kind in our country."
During the program, we brought the GTV video crew to film these masters at the Administration, who were having some interesting
discussion. And to our surprise, GTV showed all of that on the air, which was impressive because it as unrehearsed.
Digo, the OWASS-bred physicist, was the leading interlocutor. He said (and all this was shown on TV on saturday):
"All this is the work of one man...just one man's efforts to push his alma mater forward. The reason why Achimota won it a few
years ago was because their old students went to the school and gave them 50 million cedis to apply towards their
science quiz budget. It requires a lot of money to succeed in this quiz. Old Achimotans went to their homecoming and made a special
donation to their quiz team, although the event is hosted on their campus and they don't need money to travel any where. How much more a school in
Kumasi that needs to travel to Accra. And yet Prempeh old boys sit and browse the site freely, and see one man doing all this by himself and it doesn't
even embarass them."
