The following are interesting stories from 2006 that didn't appear on the website. This article also reveals
some unpublished reports from the 2006 National Science & Maths Quiz;
because the quiz finals in Accra coincided with the national Milo football final at Koforidua,
we had to rush from Accra to cover Prempeh's football final at Koforidua.
Consequently some of the important news we compiled was actually unpublished.
10. Two Disgraceful Events in One Year
If we needed any evidence to show that the once renowned Prempeh College Choir has almost collapsed since the death of music master Uncle Ebo, that evidence
came in November 2006 at the Pearson-Osae Lecture in Accra.
The School Choir is invited to the Appreciation Lectures every year. When they showed up in Accra with the Headmaster for the event in 2006, they were asked to sing
Yen ara y'asase ni. Shockingly, in the full glare of all the guests present, our choir responded by telling the audience that they "have forgotten the lyrics."
Instead, they offered to sing a song less signifant in inspiring Ghanaian pride. They sang something called "Ei Amanfoo monsore."
What song inspires more patriotism than Ephraim Amo's Yen ara y'asase ni? All kindergarten kids in Ghana sing it daily. Yet Prempeh College students can't recite it.
The disgrace was even worse in Offinso in October when the school choir was invited to sing at the funeral of our former Member of Parliament Mr. K. Sarfo. There, each member of the
choir appeared to be singing a different note.
Uncle Ebo in a batakari outfit on the front, extreme right, in this 2001 Speech day picture. This batch of
singers were great back then and we miss them. The current choir program is putrid.
The choir has not been the same since musical genius and author of the modern school
anthem, Mr. Joseph Kobina Acquah, popularly known as Uncle Ebo, died in 2004.
The fact that the Prempeh Choir recently placed a disgraceful and unprecedented 5th in an inter-school singing competition should remind our school authorities that there is something wrong
with the current choir program. Something is not working, Reverend Chaplain.
Prempeh choir was so famous in the past that
a former US Ambassador of the 1970s -- the famous child Hollywood superstar
Shirley Temple Black -- come to the school to present musical instruments to the College.
The Prempeh College Orchestra in the 1970s was so famous that not only did the choir members make Prempeh great, the ordinary music students at
Sofoline mastered the art of music and succeeded in passing their Royal School of Music Exams. Prempeh therefore
became a pioneer in the field of music teaching.
But now, what do we have? Boys who sing different incoherent notes on stage in the full view of outsiders.
9. Confrontation
At the recently held Prempeh.org 10th Anniversary Fun Fair (in December), a visiting Prempeh graduate from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
was accosted by a Prempeh student about a fascinating rumour. The following conversation ensued:
Prempeh boy:Senior, if I study very hard, make the grade and enter the University, would I get the girls to love me like they do you guys. Anytime I
tune in to the website I see Amanfoo with so many girls.
Returning Amanfoo: Yes, the girls would be at your disposal for your choosing. But be forewarned: Most of the the girls like money and so only guys with
money can win their hearts.
Prempeh boy: Oh I see, wow.
Returning Amanfoo:That's why some of us settle for the SSS Girls. They love and cherish us because of the prestige that comes with being a University student.
Prempeh boy: Oh interesting. That explains why they say you have a girl in primary school Class 2. Ei Senior, why Class 2?
8. Quizmistress: OWASS Didin't Merit National Quiz semifinal
News Report of Friday, June 30, 2006
Quiz (Semi-final) Results for Friday, June 30
Presec 100, OWASS 70
Summary:
Presec's score of 100 points was the only 3-digit score in the whole 2006 competition
It is the highest win margin in the history of the competition at the semi-final stage
Normally at the semi-final stage, competing schools battle each other all the way to the end when
one school escapes by a margin of 3 or slightly more points.
OWASS entered the semi-final after having had what was considered by many to be a
"very lucky draw." They beat Nandom Secondary 91-61 in the first round, barely survived AMASS 72-65 in the next round, and escaped
59-56 against an uninspired Tamale Secondary.
Details:
It was obvious from the results of the quarter finals that PRESEC would sail through
to the final. PRESEC had been very consistent in the year scoring marks above 90 in
almost all their contests. OWASS, however were a disappointing sight when they met
Tamale Secondary in the quarter final. People expected their boys to dismantle the
Tamale boys but they escaped by a hair's
breath.
It was already concluded before the beginning of the semi final competition today that the
Presby boys were going to disgrace the boys from Santasi. No prophet should have
said this as it was obvious. Could it be that inferiority complex caught the
Owareans? From the start of the quiz to the very end, OWASS could not find their
rhythm. The Presecans who thronged the place like mosquitoes brooding on a stagnant
water cheered their school to the very end.
Presec came into the contest having beaten St Augustine's by 18 points. They were
bent on repeating the same thing. Opoku Ware on the other hand came into the
contest having beaten Tamale by 3 points but they were confident of turning the
tables.
At the end of the competition, Quizmistress Kauffman grabbed the mic and told
the audience that OWASS "didn't merit the semi-final. Their overall performance did not merit a semi-final."
People in the hall also wondered if it was actually a semi-final that they had just witnessed. OWASS was no match for
the Odadee boys.
The Yaa Asantewaa Secondary school Assembly hall was the place to be on Saturday,
October 28,
when all the Prempeh College students went there to have an encounter with the
Lord. That Saturday was the once-in-a-term Scripture Union rally. This rally has been
going on at Yaa Asantewaa now since it is the center of Zone C which has Prempeh
College falling in that category.
As it was expected, the evening of Friday all the boys "ironed" their white
shirts with crest. Since all the schools put on white, Prempeh College has the
tradition of going with the green shirt or white shirt as prescribed by the senior
housemaster. Majority of the boys prefer the white shirt with crest as the green
shirts make them look so "dark."
On that Saturday, the school bus was full of people who had never before stepped at the door
step of the Scripture Union meeting grounds on campus. The atheists
and other religious groups all joined with a different agenda: to see and talk to
their ladies.
With the recent strike action and no lectures on campus, the college was virtually
empty at 11am with all eyes fixed on YAGSS. Some of them with the intention of
going to meet their God, others the vice versa.
It was truly a nice time for the boys at 1pm when the programme had ended and the
boys were seen chatting with their female friends from YAGSS. The college bus was
there to pick them again and this time around, no one missed the bus as roll call
was to be checked at 3pm instead of 5pm.
6. Prof. Digo Condemned his alma mater
Prof. Digo, Prempeh Physics master who is a proud Owarean, verbally assaulted OWASS quiz contestants at the National Science & Maths Quiz competition
in June. OWASS was convincingly beaten by PRESEC by a 30-point margin -- a record that is unprecedented in the competition's history for a semi-final
stage.
Feeling disgraced, Prof. Digo approached the OWASS team and condemned them for bringing disgrace to their alma mater.
The OWASS boys responded
by stating that "Adisadel lost to Prempeh by 31 points so they were also disgraced." Digo became annoyed by that comment and berated the Owareans even further, stating
that "there is no way any of you can compare Adisadel with OWASS. Have you ever heard of Adisadel ever winning any national competition? We are OWASS - two time
national quiz champions."
Prof Digo went on to emphasize to the OWASS boys that "Prempeh has never been beaten by 30." OWASS quiz masters joined him in condemning
the team, saying "leave these disgraced souls alone."
5. Problem Makers & Destroyers
We have published stories here in the past about problems KNUST Amanfoo cause at Sofoline whenever they
visit. When they walked in on inter-schools quiz competition between Prempeh and a visiting school, they disrupted the proceeding by
carrying our contestants on their heads. But what they did at the October 2006 Amanadehyee Homecoming was the worst of all!!!
Amanfoo at the dining hall in October 2006
Having been served food at the dining hall, the KNUST guys decided to not only waste but also to spread the food all over the hall!!! Holding bottles and other destructive instruments, the returning KNUST Amanfoo
staged a destructive rampage by throwing the food away just for entertainment purposes.
This outraged the school authorites so much that they barred Amanfoo from Tech from ever entering the school. National Old Boys
President (Dr. Osei Kuffour) also descended on them.
After the 2007 Royal Pair Congress, Tech Amanadehyee sent a delegation of about 100 guys led by prempeh.org's Senior Jazzy to
Sofoline to apologise to the school authorities. They have been accepted back with the hope that they will not repeat that act.
4. Headmaster's Favourite
Get which section or page of prempeh.org is Headmaster Owusu-Achiaw's favourite?
Click here to take a look at it. (Notice the words on th top of the page!!!!)
Yes, the headmaster says the story at the top of the Campus Life page makes his day bright. Anytime he is having a bad day, he enters that
page and read that funny story and laugh out loud.
The story is about former Assistant Headmaster
Mr. Asare Kwaa (Alfazaari, or Alpha for short), who left Prempeh to become Headmaster of Kumasi High.
When one Senior Seth Lartey went to his office in the late 1970s
to complain that he is being called "Aboyie," the following was Alpha's response:
"When your seniors sit in their dormitories and call me Alpha Alpha you join the chorus, but now that
they are calling you Aboyie, you are coming to report! Aboyie, please go away from my office."
The Headmaster is not alone here; several people (including even those who have no affiliation with Prempeh) have written to us
to inquire about the whereabouts of the legendary Alfazaari.
3. Owareans: We look up to you
We received a surprise guest at the prempeh.org fun fair on December 9: the webmaster of owass.org. He came with a delegation of OWASS Entertainment Committee
who wanted to stage a funfair the week after ours; the group wanted to learn about our methods of organization of such events which they hoped to implement
for their program.
The webmaster was particularly interested in partnership and mutual cooperation in web technology. Citing a history of "friendship" between the two schools, he sought ideas
and advise from us. He stated that Prempeh and OWASS have always been brothersand that they actually look up to us.
It is because of their admiration for us that the following incidents happened in 2006:
Legon Owareans took our prempeh.org tee-shirt to Senior Kow, the Amanfoo who designs our shirts and banners, and hired him to "design one just like that" for them. They asked him to
place OWASS
crest in the exact location of the Prempeh crest and replaced prempeh.org with owass.org. The only difference is their use of their traditional
cream colour instead of our white.
When one Prempeh master revealed to an Owarean friend that prempeh.org, as part of the inter-houses quizzes league sponsorship
package was to put Prempeh contestants and masters in a hotel in Accra during the competiton, the Owarean rushed to sponsor his alma mater by placing all their contestants in a hotel "just because
Prempeh contestants will be based in a hotel."
The OWASS Sports master, Orlando, citing prempeh.org's soccer league as the reason for Prempeh's outstanding achievements in soccer in recent years, decided to organize a sponsorship drive
for a similar Santasi league to be modeled after ours. The last time we checked, he had collected 2.5m cedis from old boys.
Since then we have formed a good friendship with their webmaster and have exchanged ideas. He even visits our residence regularly.
2. Get out of my Office
When Amanadehyee Executives from Legon went around soliciting sponsorship donations for the upcoming Amanadehyee Congress, a very
strange incident happened.
When they entered the office of one senior Amanfoo and asked for a cash donation, the senior angrily replied: "Anytime I see you people on the
website, you're with some ladies. All you people do is have sex with girls on campus. When I was a student at the University, did I ever get any girl?
You want my money to go and use on girls...when I never had any when I was a student. Get out of my office."
Weeks later, the Senior regretted his actions and later invited the boys back to his office and offered them cash. He has since changed his opinion; he phones the executives often
and even recently took the boys out to dinner.
1. Of Rejected Bribes & Ponderous Wickedness
A Greek story says that when Croesus, King of Lydia, demanded tribute from the Island of Samos, the Samians, influenced
by Aesop, the fabulist, decided they would refuse, though that would risk war with Croesus, and sent his ambassador
back “with a flea in his ear.”
We witnessed a similar thing at Sofoline in 2006.
On October 10, Kwaku Ohene-Frempong sent a $3000 bribe to the
Headmaster to have him stop the prempeh.org soccer league. Not only did the Headmaster flatly refused, he rebuked
Kwaku for being most wicked! After failing to convince Ohene-Frempong to add the amount to the prempeh.org
sponsorship package so that Prempeh kids could benefit, he kicked Ohene’s envoy Akwasi Agyemang out of the campus.
Kwaku Ohene-Frempong
A similar attempt to bribe the English Department for them to stop the Prempeh.org Annual Essay Competition was rejected
by the Department authorities as “blood money.”
Ohene-Frempong, a man whose dexterity at hiring assassins is only matched by his savage disposition, then set out on a
mission to destabilize Prempeh. In addition to repeatedly threatening several key staff members in a series of phone calls,
Ohene-Frempong hired thugs like Agyemang to carry out his twin mission of ruination and anarchism.
But perhaps the most damning indictment of Ohene-Frempong's
wickedness is manifest in the way, one week after his bribe rejection, he sent Agyemang to disrupt the funeral of
our beloved Hon. Kwabena Sarfo, the late Member of Parliament for Offinso South, in Offinso in October last year,
when all Amanfoo and the entire Sofoline community were mourning the deceased in Offinso. Only the timely intervention
of our Old Boys President prevented a mayhem at that time.
Kwaku resurfaced in December when he heard of our planned fun fair which was intended to celebrate the website’s 10th
Anniversary. He warned the Headmaster to cancel the program immediately or risk experiencing his first student-riot on
campus. When Headmaster Owusu-Achiaw condemned him for being the cruelest man he has ever known, the narcissist became
infuriated and went to lay groundwork for chaos, even if his grandchildren’s playmates would get hurt.
But thank God for small mercies, the Sofoline boys were smarter than that: tranquility prevailed in the calmest fashion. For the
first time in our history, masters joined their students on the dance floor at the Osae Assembly Hall.
This is the same satanically-influenced Ohene-Frempong, who was tried and convicted of treason in 2005. For Owudinii Kwaku,
no means are too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty when it comes to his jealousy-driven savage disposition.
Ohene-Frempong is a man who has no qualms about hiring thugs to “break the legs” (his euphemism for “kill them if you can”) of
children his grandchildren’s age just because they work for this website – a work he feels he should own.
Here obviously we have on display a quintessential example of the destructive jealousy which afflicts the black race
in general, and the flagrancy of the Ghanaian people in particular. Ohene-Frempong is the perfect reason why Henry Longfellow's assertion that
"No one is accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate," should be rejected outright, for Kwaku is surely cursed by fate. A man who could have used
his energy and resource to inspire young people and offer them hope but opted instead to choke their advancement.
By sabotaging the dreams of young people, it helps this tawdry scientist offset his own fears with a feeling of superiority.
A town that boasts inhabitants like Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, a man who harbors bottomless hatred for young people, can have no lack of a horrible society. And that is why Amanfoo unanimously voted in a March 2007 General Assembly
to strip him of his Amanfoo membership, making him the first person to be tried by the Board of Governors for treason (2005), the first to be sanctioned by the Board,
the first returning Amanfoo to be booed from campus (2005), the first to be stripped of his Amanfoo membership (2007) and the first person barred from identifying himself as
one of us.
