The Great Teachers of Prempeh College

The Rt. Rev. Rudolph Peter Nyarko, a.k.a. Osofo
Chaplain, Bible Knowledge Master 1970s
Assistant Headmaster

Written by Kwabena Osei-Boaten, Serwah '79 (1979 DHP)

An incredible giant of Prempeh College. You hear the name of OSO, and you think judgment day was here. We remember this man for his eagle watch on the daily Class Register Report that had to be submitted just before lunch time. This man was a father to all of us, and he dared not spank a student without a witness.

The story goes that Robert Agyeibi Asuboa of Serwah fame, was sent by senior Asihene to submit the Form 2 register to Osofo one afternoon. Asuboah at that time was about 3 feet and weighed about 30 pounds, so Osofo felt really sorry for him. Osofo got hold of Asihene, then got the Senior Prefect as a witness and took all of them to Mr. Osai the then Headmaster and remarked to him, "Sir, look at this Form 2 prefect, he had sent a small, tiny piece of boy to deliver the register". He got permission from Mr. Osai and gave Asihene some lashes. Another story goes that he met a Prempeh student in town who had a colored attire, of course that was against the school regulations, so he became very outraged. So outraged that he decided to walk the student back to campus to show the headmaster of his catch. He never looked back once, obviously the student bolted, and upon arriving at the administration area, and narrating his story to Mr. Osai, he finally turned back to present his catch, only to discover that there was no student, and no car. The final story; he observed that students will always say "oba oh! Oba oh!" whenever he appeared on the scene, so one day he asked a group of students, "Why do they always say, Obaa oh! when they see me, am I a tiger?".

Osofo impacted every one's life, so much that most of us cried when he got transferred to Ghana Secondary School as a headmaster.