SUDDENLY A HERO APPEARS

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

2003/2004 Senior Prefect Gyabaah VY (center) with his deputies: Senior Charles Korkor (ASP I, left) and Senior Effah-Amponsah K.D. (ASP II, right).

At a time when Prempeh is perceived as having no student leader...a time when the Sofoline boys are seeing a historical droop of perhaps the most ineffective Senior Prefect trio in Prempeh's history...a time when Dinning Hall Prefects are regarded as the acting Senior Prefects of Prempeh, suddenly a hero appears.

At a critical moment when the boys of Sofoline are bereft of any leadership, Victory Yeboah Gyabaah has checked in. Visiting Kumasi for what he describes a "family related visit," Victor checked in with the website last week, saying that he will remain in Kumasi for a little while.

The Dormaa-Ahenkro native, who has been appointed an Assistant Headmaster at a school in or near his hometown, was very happy about life in general.

When asked if he had heard from his predecessor, he replied, "No." "What about your successor," we asked. He said that he hasn't heard anything from the person who succeeded him as Prempeh's Senior Prefect.

But it will not take Victor too long to hear so much about the disappointing overall performance of his cloistered successor and his equally unoproductive deputies. A trio that never feel compelled to even attend morning assemblies, and dining hall prefects have to act on their behalf at all settings.

In fact, the vast dissimilarity between Gyabaah's administration and this current one is what makes the immediate-past Senior Prefect so longed for in the hearts of the boys of the Kings College.

Headmaster Owusu-Achiaw has already expressed regret about putting this particular batch of Prefects into office. He branded them "ineffective" and has vowed to to conduct a more stringent vetting process this term for the next generation of Prefects. The students themselves have their own regret, and they will be choosing very carefully this time around.

When Gyabaah arrives at University of Ghana campus in September this year to undertake his studies, he will realise that the whole university community will recognise him, owing to the incredible popularity he gained by being a regular figure on this website. Just like Coach Agyengo, who had strangers vying to offer him assistance upon his arrival in Texas, primarily because of what they had read about him at this website, Gyabaah's popularity is likely to soar.

Already the Victorious Visionary has received several letters (emails) -- including "love notes" -- from around the world, most of which we have miserably misplaced. Which is why it is very refreshing that he now has his own email address -- gyabaahvy@prempeh.org -- through which he could be reached by all his friends and endless list of admirers.

Even from the faraway B.A. Region, Gyabaah says he follows the website regularly, and "is excited by what is going on here."

RELATED READINGS
Gyabaah's Who's who profile
Gyabaah's Speech Day Address
An interview with Gyabaah V.Y
The SU President