The Man who Spanked 6th Formers

By Anthony "Akapice" Asare (G'berg '85)

I will like to tell you a story about my days in Prempeh. I was in Upper Six then and we had already written some of our A level papers. I was in Dorm 4 in G'berg just before morning worship when the big four - The Headmaster (Mr Sackey at that time), Mr Attrams the new Assisstant Headmaster, Mr J A Boamah another Assistant Headmaster and "Toad" (Sorry but I dont remember his real name) another Assisstant Headmaster came into our filthy dorm. The Dorm had not been cleaned in weeks, no one in the dorm owned a bed sheet. The pans were all dirty with hardened soakings and no one in the dorm had taken a shower in a week. You could imagine the stench in the room. The Big four stood there for a minute . They were so surprised at what they saw that they could not talk. Finally Mr Attrams was able to say that the PTA executive would be coming around after breakfast and as a result we should clean our dorm. They then left.

Big problem. Mr Sackey had just been made headmaster and he was known to cane any student even upper six students who disobeyed him. How were we going to clean the room. All the juniors had left for morning worship and Joe Siii (I wonder where he is), A Ramseyer House student turned G'bergian had just brought in some apoo that he swore would come in that morning's A levels. We were studying last mini. How were we to stop and clean our room. We decided not to clean our room after all by the time the PTA came over we would be in the Lecture theatre writing the paper and no one could do anything to us.

A few moments later we heard people scream, SCATTERRRRR. And we saw people run all over the place. The PTA inspections had started. And we still had not even started reading the apooo. We had spent all the time arguing about whether the apooo was genuine or not. There was no way we were going to leave the room. We therefore decided to fortify the room, lock it all up so they could not get in, keep silent and study. We could not find a padlock so we put a spoon behind the door. We then put milk tins underneath the shutters so they could not be opened from the outside then we decided to wait. Being the geniuses that we were, we forgot to put a milk tin under one shutter.

We heard Mr Sackey come holding a cane and swinging it . We heard the swoosh sound of the cane as he came close to our dorm and our hearts stopped beating. He came to our door and tried to open it but he couldnt. He tried harder and harder but he still couldnt. Then he went for the shutter. That was when we realized that there was no milk tin there. Snr Atiemo (I wonder where he also is?) jumped from one corner of the room over six single beds and he was infront of the shutter in half a second. Not even Alooma could jump that high in such a short time. Unfortunately Mr sackey was a split second faster. He opened the shutter just as Snr Atiemo was trying to put a thick book under the shutter and he came face to face with Sackey. They stared at one another through the shutters and no one talked. Then Atiemo closed the shutter in Mr Sackey's face. Mr sackey opened the shutter, then Atiemo closed the shutter again. Then the two of them started to struggle over the shutter.

No one needed to tell the rest of us that we were in biigggg trouble. COME AND SEE SCATTERRRRRRR. We all headed for the windows. every world record was broken. Long jump. triple jump, hurdles, hundred meters etc. Atiemo finally able to sneak the book under the shutters also jumped out of the window.

For some reason, Mr Sackey thought that there were still some people in the room. He immediately called some prefect assistants to come over and guard the door and to make sure no one came out. He went to the other side of the window and saw me standing there. He knew me by name because I was a prefect, and he called me. I almost peeed in my pants I came over expecting a cane. He sent me to go and call the Seargant Major. He called Joe sii and asked him to call the school carpenter to come and break the door down. And as you will expect, we just went and hid behind some trees looking at what was going on. Here was Sackey with PTA executives standing next to him. He was a new headmaster and he wanted to show the world how tough he was. Just then, the rest of the school started walking towards the dining hall and gathered around Mr sackey trying to see what was going on. Mr Sackey started directing troops to surround the dorm on all sides. about thirty strong men. Then he made someone break into the room. They rushed into the room only to find it empty. The whole school started to make the usual noise when they realized that Mr Sackey had been tricked. aaaaaaaah aaaah aaaaaaah aaaaah, the whole school cried and The embarassed Mr Sackey had to leave the place with his executives and abondoned the inspections. Fortunately for us, he never came back looking for us. I guess he was to embarassed to come look for us.

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