"I'm highly impressed by your incredible ability to stop classes
at the school, and have the whole school move on command because of your initiatives (such as this Quizzes League). This is amazing.
I see that the headmaster really love you guys. But do not relent in telling us the whole truth about what happens there because of your friendship with him. Report everything that happens"
-Oheneba Adusei Poku, Akyempemhene
Dear Sir:
Following our reports here, the footballers have suddenly started getting food in the dining hall after their training. We had to publish this embarassing information about our school in order for you and your staff to act.
When we first met you several years ago, you told us that you wanted "only good image-projecting material to be on the website," to which we agreed. The question we have for you now is, "do you think the material appearing on this website projects a good image about you and the College you run?"
Sir, why can't you take the necessary steps to correct problems that occur at the College? Why can't you end the culture of silence at Sofoline by instituting "an open door policy" so that all students who have problems can come to your office and whisper it to you confidentially so that they do not have to come to us? And even if the boys come to us with damaging information about our school, can we, say, send it to you directly, so that you will take 10 days to correct them?
Out of a certain discomfort for washing our dirty linen in public, we want to establish "a 10-day rule" with you so that when information comes to our attention, you will be offered a 10-day grace period to correct the problem, during which time we would hold our guns.
Even if you agree to this 10-day rule, we will still wince at the thought of Owusu-Achiaw resolving a problem in 10 days. Here's why:
It was over a year ago that we started publishing articles about the poor service at the dining hall. In over 10 articles, we reported how some of the dining tables were not being served. For over 6 long months, it fell on deaf ears, until the PTA came to campus in July and condemned you and your ineffective Senior Housemaster for that problem. Couldn't you have rectified the problem long before that? Even after the PTA left, your ineffective and usually-cruel Senior Housemaster continued with this treacherous act and we continued to report it, yet you refused to act until it blew up into a major crisis
in November/December 2005. And even during the autumn of 2005, we offered you warning signs which you ignored.
The problems you highlighted about your Chaplain on January 2, 2006, when you gave one of your usual Rawlings-like "boom speeches," was first brought to your attention at this website during the 2003/2004 academic year, and at least 3 more articles mentioned this particular habit of the Chaplain, yet it took you 2 long years to finally chastise him.
Our footballers have suddenly started getting food in the dining hall after their
training. We had to publish this embarrassing information about our school in order
for you and your staff to act. Any time we approach you and your staff with some
information, it falls on deaf ears; the only time you people feel compelled to
act is when you are threatened with public ridicule via this website.
Because of the way the boys cherish the website, they are very influenced by it. They take everything we write here as the gospel. That is why we are very careful about what we write.
For instance, when one student refused to comply with the punishment of the ineffective
Senior Housemaster (because Atiemo had failed to previously punish a student who had
violated the same rule), we opted not to mention it here because teenagers in general
are copycats - they would have emulated that example.
The boys at this age are very fleeceable. They would be more inclined to follow the
advice of prempeh.org than their parents'. Everything that they see here is regarded
very highly. And that is why, in case you have not noticed, we have adopted a policy of
not saying anything negative about the four Headmasters, Chaplain or the Senior
Housemaster. It is for this reason that we never place the name of the headmasters
or the Chaplain in any of our opinion polls, which will expose you to insults by your
critics at Legon and KNUST. If we create a forum for your detractors to insult you,
the Sofoline boys will lose respect for you and it will become extremely difficult for
you to control them.
Have you noticed that Butler's housemaster is no longer respected in the school? This is because
he took as his possession the grand prize prempeh.org awarded his house for winning the league.
He also became a pariah when we reported here that he developed AFRC/PNDC-like military torture
techniques to intimidate the prefects during the crisis of 2005. Contrast his status at the school now
with his past standing as the most popular man in recent memory.
Did you notice how one Speaker was booed off the stage at the 56th Speech Day in December 2005 because
the students perceived him to be an enemy of prempeh.org? That should tell you about the influence the website
has on these impressionable young boys.
We try to shield the four headmasters, Chaplain and the Senior Housemasters from opprobrium.
But the only person in the top brass of the school to be denied this privilege is Atiemo
II, your Senior Housemaster, who flouted your orders yesterday and caused our
outstanding sports master to threaten us with resignation. [More about this later].
We have done everything to get Atiemo to come to an understanding. We passed him private notes and
posted nice comments in the form of "open letters" to him. We have called him on the phone
to talk to him privately and sometimes he even hangs up the phone out of anger just because
we told him he's on the verge of developing a sullied reputation. We have taken all these steps to
ensure that people's reputations remain intact and no negative information appear here.
But as Atiemo just showed us by feeding the football team yesterday after the
public ridicule,
negative publicity is the only language he understands!!!
Sir, again, because of the trust the boys repose in us, prempeh.org cannot
afford to ignore their concerns. When they report their hardship to us, they
expect us to present it to the world at large. We are therefore seen as "student
advocates," a label we take with great pride. Don't forget that we were
students only recently ourselves. We cannot turn a blind eye when our boys
are struggling.
Now consider the appetency of Amanfoo, such as Nana Akyempemhene, for all
the news (good or bad) relating to Prempeh College and you will appreciate
our difficult position better. Ask Eben, Desmond and Robert Awuah (who just
joined us) how difficult our job is.
Some people even blame us for Atiemo's genetic wickedness because we failed
to report and condemn him earlier on while some express concern about our
close friendship with you - they fear that our closeness to you might create
some coziness whereby we would overlook your shortcomings.
Sir, our goal here at prempeh.org is to extol Mother Prempeh's great heritage
and inspire her youth to aim for greatness. As you correctly pointed out sometime
last December when you realized we had told the truth in our reports, "prempeh.org
has nothing to gain by lying."
As we have mentioned before, for the youth, prempeh.org, provides a form of bucolic
paradise, where the sun shines never sets, where the frenzied activity of urban and
rural existence and travails is remote and forgotten, and life is one indulgent day
dream for young people who aspire to leave behind footprints on the sands of time!
The discovery of young boys
whose deeds and exploits are underlined on the same pages with
exemplary
old men, including the leader of the country, is enough to provide a catalyst for the recrudescence of man. Don't you agree?
Who would have thought, that, in a country where the youth are regarded as mere diversions from momentous discussions, a boy in Dormaa
would have his achievements displayed on the same page as the President? Where in Ghana will you find that?
Sir, it is very staggering that the first headmaster to have 3
Assistants -- not 2 -- is the one having the most difficulty managing
the College. Why does a website need to tell a school administration
headed by 4 men to feed
athletes before they develop the foresight to do so? Headmaster Osae had ONLY ONE DEPUTY
and Sackey had only 2.
Your inability to bring your staff to order is your biggest weakness. So far, as far as we know, you have not been able
to transfer any of the rogue teachers out of Prempeh to serve as scape-goats for others.
You must cultivate the habit of sending secret memos to GES headquarters asking for them
to take away people that make the school difficult to run. Just cite "irreconcilable differences" as your reason
for wanting them out. The Chief Director of the Minstry of Education and Sports
is Prempeh's own Mr. Ato Essuman. He is second in command to the Ministers of Education. Urge him to
take away treacherous old boys Atiemo and Koduah, for as long as these quislings remain on your staff, you will not
succeed as headmaster! That is the same thing these 2 visionless people did to crumble the administration of your
predecessor.
The man Atiemo is bad and so evil, that no labour, pains, temperance, poverty, nor
exercise, that could cause him to shirk any gathering of humans, must be grudged.
For Atiemo is like a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of,
and absorbs the youth that are supposed to be his own "sons."
Have you noticed that most of the new staff get corrupted by the lout Atiemo? Do you now realise why non-Old boys like Agyei Budu
betray the school? Because Atiemo, who is an embodiment of Prempeh College
(he was actually born on Prempeh's soil to a former
headmaster and attended the College) continually betrays the school. Why should they - the outsiders - work hard to uplift the
school when the people born there seek to destroy it?
You're Vice-Chairman of Schools & College sports, yet your staff do not respect sports. What does that say about their
respect for you? Do you now see the roots of Atiemo's flagrant disregard of your order
yesterday morning when the hoodlum
reverted to his old ways as soon as you left?
