Prempeh eliminates OWASS in first round

The first round of the Inter-Schools Debate was held today.

Out of fear, Asanteman did not make it for this year's zonal debate which was held at the GNAT hall this morning. The thought that Prempeh College was coming shook almost all the schools in our zone.

Since three schools were present notably, Opoku Ware, Adventist Day and Prempeh College, there was a balloting to select one school as stand-by. Prempeh did win the ballot.

The debate thus started at around 9:15 a.m with Opoku Ware taking on Adventist Day Secondary. The motion of the day was: Parents not teachers are to blame for children's indiscipline.

There was also a ballot as to the school that speaks for and one that speaks against the motion. In the end, Adventist Day eliminated OWASS having performed and given out the best of facts and figures. They scored 9.75 while OWASS had 9.35.

Adventist Day, who were then geared up after that victory, met Prempeh College after a 30 minute break.

Prempeh, led by Reginald, popularly known as Reggie, then met the Adventist guys who were in for the kill after they had eliminated our Santasi friends. Beating OWASS gave them the expected and desired zeal as they thought Owass and Prempeh were on the same scale. Unknown to them, their thought was far from the truth.

William Demitiah, the Assistant Senior Prefect who had helped Prempeh win the National Debate Championship even when he was in form one, was on the team but did not take part. This was to show how prepared the college was in terms of the human resources that will bring out the "burofo" to make the judges stagger and give out the points.

A team that has members of the Science and Maths Quiz on it is no mean team. Demitiah was there as inspiration as Reggie did all the talk with the facts and figures to counter all that the Adventist guys were saying.

After the heated debate that will see only one school making it for the final round of the Ashanti Regional Debate Championship, Prempeh thus emerged winners, having recorded 7.3 points as against the 7.0 recorded by the Adventists.

The narrow margin there indicates how prepared each school was. Prempeh thus meet some schools that won in their various zones on Thursday at 9 a.m. at a venue yet to be known.

St Louis also made it to the final after eliminating some schools at the Osae Assembly hall today. St Louis automatically will meet Prempeh on Thursday.

If we have beaten their boys to it, what can they do? A school of thought says that, only their melodious voices can even fetch them marks.

We implore the debaters to keep on with their research and trainings so that we become victorious again come Thursaday.

Prempeh is on course to win the tripple crown.

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