BUTLER HOUSEMASTER TOOK THEIR TV/DVD PLAYER

Thursday, January 5, 2006

The TV and DVD player which was awarded to Butler House as their prize for winning the Prempeh.org Inter-Houses Soccer League, was taken by their housemaster for his personal use in his residence.

Butler took the ultimate prize for winning the league, only for their housemaster to take it

Mr. Agyekum, also called Paaoo, took it as his own property until the boys reported it to the Headmaster, who chastised him for that act and took it back for the boys, who will now have it in their Common Room.

It is redolent of the case of Pearson boys, whose stereo has been stored in the house of their housemaster for several years, instead of their Common Room.

According to some sources, the Headmaster reminded him about how he (the Housemaster) never stepped on the field to cheer the boys or to even watch a single game. How then could he take the boys' gift without a blush.

What disturbs us most about Mr. Agyekum, is that he is the same man who devised AFRC/PNDC-like military techniques to torture the Prefects during the recent crisis at Sofoline.

A product of the Ghana Armed Forces, Mr. Agyekum used the same military techniques he learned in the military to abuse the Prefects in December 2005, a story we have not yet told.

Paoo, who was formerly a favourite of all students, was widely admired by all the students and graduates until his recent ignominy.

Because he was passed over for the Senior Housemastership position, he devised a great plan during the crisis to take advantage of the situation and work against every body, particularly the Prefects.

He is the one who fabricated the story that one of our webmasters who was a Senior Prefect the last time Prempeh students held a demonstration, came to the campus to incite the Prefects to hold another demonstration just like he did in his time. Mr. Agyekum convinced all and sundry that he saw the former Prefect on campus and that he could certainly recognise a former S.P. when he sees him. However, the young man was in the far away Accra on Legon campus writing final exams.

This miscalculation by Mr. Agyekum proved very costly as it fueled Mr. Atiemo's unqualified rage and fomented more trouble for the innocent boys involved.

This writing is for posterity.