It is often whispered among heads of schools in Ghana that no headmaster receives more support from his or her
stakeholders than Prempeh College's headmaster Owusu-Achiaw.
In fact, this silent admiration for the support Prempeh Old Boys and PTA offer their
headmaster is the reason why Prempeh headmaster is national chairman of so many committees and programs, such as
the Conference of Heads of Assisted Schools (CHASS).
To put it bluntly, Mr. Owusu-Achiaw is a very envied headmaster throughout Ghana.
To give you a few examples and have you think about them carefully, consider the following: Which headmaster asks for a classroom block
and get one even within a 20-year period? It is a rarity in Ghana. But Owusu-Achiaw asks for one and he gets 2 or 3 with an assembly hall added as a bonus
within a 4 year period.
Who asks for a Recreational Hall and gets not only a recreational facility, but also a swimming pool for his pupils to swim in?
Which Headmaster in Ghana has a highly cooperative PTA which stands by in perfect readiness to assist in all aspects of school development,
so much that the Association builds a new teachers flat nearly every other year for the school?
Which school currently owns the best computer laboratory facility in the whole country -- a facility built by old students that
is the envy of all universities?
Opoku Ware II House (2000)
The Heroes Corner (2001)
The Library (1999)
Gateway to Opoku Ware House (2000)
The new Science Block (2001)
Staff bungalows (2006)
The new Classroom Block (2006)
Another view of the classroom block
Assembly Hall (under construction)
The Computer Center
We feel that Amanfoo have provided unwavering support that is unrequitted by any academic achievement under this headmaster to date.
This headmaster, unlike his predecessors, has failed to produce at least the nation's best overall examination candidate in the national examinations (SSSCE and WASSCE).
Nor has he been able to win a national Science trophy.
In national science quiz competitions, prempeh.org and other oldboys provide vital financial support directly
to the contestants while the headmaster does not even understand
the need to visit the team.
In this year's national quiz competition, for example, prempeh.org brought together several of the former Prempeh contestants
and housed them in Accra at our own expense so that they could provide tutoring lessons to this year's contestants. This measure was unprecedented in the history of the competition;
no headmaster has ever benefited from such a thing.
Where in Ghana do teachers get rewarded with free television sets and DVD players as incentives to do a job the government has already paid them to do?
When our very own friend Coach Orlando of OWASS set out on a mission to emulate our soccer league concept, it took
him over a year to accumulate
2 million cedis (former currency) and he gave up trying to get money from their old boys.
He, like many others, wonder how come Prempeh headmaster has everything
so comfortly created and placed infront of him?
Some Prempeh headmasters from the past went through an incredible struggle to make it through each day. Some struggled
to put food on the table for students in times of famine
and other critical economic crisis. Now, fortunately, manna seems to be consistently falling from the heavens for Akwasi Owusu-Achiaw.
But what are we getting in return? What does he have to
show for all of it?
