"Those who inflict must suffer, for they see
The work of their own hearts, and this must be
Our chastisement or recompense."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Julian and Maddalo", Line 482.
The headmaster held a meeting with his staff on Monday and asked them to
"either change or be changed."
The headmaster had previously condemned his
staff about their attitude that led to the crisis.
According to very reliable sources, he met with them in December before school closed and resolved the crisis. According to
our sources, he chastized them about the embarassment they had
caused the school. However, this latest "emergency staff meeting" was triggered by
prempeh.org's refusal to release
funds for the sponsorship of national quiz contestants who were due to
arrive on campus on January 3rd for training.
We took this action because Mr. Atiemo went on rampage, abusing some of the kids who
provided information to prempeh.org.
He went to the extent of writing fraudulent testimonials in the files of some young oldboys
who contribute to prempeh.org or at least threatened to do so. Senior Eben Wireko, the 2002 Senior Prefect, who is mainly
responsible for the daily update of this website, but did NOT
write the articles about the crisis, was Mr. Atiemo's main target.
Not only did he threaten his
future with false testimonials, Mr. Atiemo went to incite the parents of the
young man against him. The articles were actually written by some very senior Amanfoo with advanced
degrees whose universities' testimonials far supercedes and outweigh high school testimonials.
The proverbial patience is Job is required if we are to wait for Mr. Atiemo to come of age.
Yet Mr. Atiemo opted to falsely violate the rights of people who could pass for his own children.
He physically and verbally assaulted soccer captain Ahmed, whom we had previously
mentioned in an article about
starvation on Prempeh campus.
Moments before our football team were scheduled to play in the Milo football championship, while the Prempeh
team was gathered somewhere making final preparations before leaving for the stadium, the captain was detained in a room, where the Senior
Housemaster repeatedly yelled abuse in his ears and threatened to kick him out of the school.
What kind of matured adult will subject such a vital athletic entity to such stress few moments before a crucial match?
In fact, on a Richter scale of human suffering, Ahmed's struggle with Atiemo may parallel Christ's journey through Golgotha (i.e., his route from
Pilate's judgement hall to Calvary).
But the most damning indictment of the rank rule of Mr. Atiemo was manifest in the way
the man verbally assaulted his own colleagues.
Masters who visibly supported the Prefects or released information
to prempeh.org were attacked with the worse form of invectives. We mock thee not!
However, the worst form of gutter language, which is only fit for the motor park, was reserved for prempeh.org
when he called us on the night of December 5, 2005.
Prempeh.org felt that the timing of the quiz contestants' sponsorship could not be more apposite. We failed to pay until
the Headmaster called his staff to order and ordered Atiemo to apologise to us by phone on Monday, the same date of the meeting.
The funds has since been released.
The price in pain and tears that our children have had to pay for the comfort and pleasure of this Senior Housemaster
has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to him as our inspirational father.
We expect more fraudulent testimonials in our school files.
