If a case is to be made against Headmaster Owusu-Achiaw for being somewhat
deficient in acute decision making skills, the example will not be limited to his failures
described previously.
A more prominent example is the case involving the Headmaster and our PTA chairman a few weeks ago.
Prempeh's former Asst. headmaster, Stepehn Anokye, currently head of OWASS, reached back to Sofoline
to resolve our very basic crisis
During the West African School Certificate Exam in May/June this year, our graduating students who had exams to
write were resigned to sleeping in their dormitories and not studying in the night because of a lack of electrical power
at Sofoline. While both the students and Headmaster slept in complete darkness, a visiting PTA Chairman was informed by
distressed Prempeh College Prefects that though the entire town of Santasi was in complete darkness, Opoku Ware Secondary School (OWASS) alone
had electricity on their campus.
Concerned, the PTA Chairman drove his car to Santasi to observe this mystery for himself. He even went further to meet Mr. Stephen "One-Mole" Anokye, headmaster of
OWASS and asked him about his secret for having power when the whole city was in darkness. Anokye, the former Prempeh Assistant headmaster was gracious enough
to share his ideas with Prempeh people.
He told our PTA Chairman that, cognizant of the prevalent energy crisis in the country, he went to the school's bankers during business hours and took a loan that
will be used to facilitate fueling and refueling of a backup generator that could sustain the school throughout the whole examination season.
Impressed, the Chairman came to Sofoline to inform an uninterested Owusu-Achiaw of his findings.
Chagrined, the Headmaster rebuked the all-powerful PTA Chairman for comparing his "former small-boy" to him. "He was my Assistant; he served under me. He was my small-boy; how can
you compare him to me? Go away, I don't answer to you. I only answer to Ghana Educational Service. I don't respond to a PTA Chairman."
Though William Shakespeare teaches us that "he who does in the wars more than his captain goes on to become the
captain's captain," Mr. Owusu-Achiaw believes that no apprentice can ever grow
to outshine his former master! Once an apprentice, always inferior! It is not possible for his former deputy to
outperform him in any endeavour.
So we see, that at another critical time when Prempeh's academic future was on the line, our Headmaster was left without a clue.
Thanks to Mr. Stephen Anokye of OWASS, this batch of Prempeh exam candidates (i.e., Class of 2007) will get a chance to enter the university
next year.
