"Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins."
Sam Shepard, American Actor/Playwright
Last week, the Headmaster's secretary and mistress got married. As shocking as it sounds, Eunice, the woman who fulfills Achiaw's erotic desires in
the office has found someone to marry her [how she succeeded in achieving that milestone is the subject of our next article].
Prempeh College Headmaster and his deputies were all invited to the wedding ceremony.
During the course of the ceremony, Mr. Achiaw was asked to stand to be acknowledged by the audience as Eunice's boss. With the large audience's attention
directed to where Achiaw and the Assistant Headmasters were seated, headmaster Achiaw, who had bowed his head in shame all throughout the ceremony because he
did not have the courage to look into the face of the young groom whose new wife he has been sleeping with in the office, asked his messenger to stand up and be introduced as "Prempeh headmaster."
Can the Presby and Methodist missions entrust the future of this child in the care of a man with that many character flaws?
So while the audience waited for "Prempeh headmaster" to rise and be introduced, the headmaster's
so-called "Boy-boy" rose from the chair and was fraudulently presented to the crowd
as "Prempeh headmaster."
Achiaw even enhanced this fraud further after the program by letting his messenger go around and shake hands and interact with the
audience as the "Headmaster
of Prempeh College". What a slap in the face of his deputies! What an insult to all Old Boys of Prempeh! What an embarrassment
to the President of Ghana, who has this school listed on his CV!
So now, to a church audience, the messenger who even lacks a good command of the English language, is the Headmaster of Prempeh College.
One can imagine the effect this imbroglio of the morally-flexible Achiaw had on his Assistant headmasters Koduah and Yeboah,
who could have easily been asked to invoke their legal succession claim and rightfully stand in the place of the headmaster.
But such is the character of Akwasi Owusu-Achiaw. Yes, this story illustrates the shocking character of the man who heads this
Presbyterian-Methodist institution. Achiaw was fully aware of the fact that his secretary was going to have him introduced to the audience. Instead
of arranging with his deputy to stand in for him, he decided to commit a grave fraud by having his "boy-boy" (who lacks the requisite qualifications for the
office) be introduced to the external world
as the real Prempeh headmaster because of the disgrace he and the bride endure on campus for their open sexual expression in the presence of school children.
With a full headmaster perpetrating a fraud of this magnitude, should it be a surprise when we hear that a Prempeh boy has used a forged paper
to gain admission to one of the universities, as was recently reported?
When a report came out that Prempeh boys are national leaders in terms of patronization of prostitution,
some people thought it lurid. But we now understand how all those behaviours start from the highest office at the school.
Psychology teaches us that children emulate what they see. It all starts from the top; the boys
only learn from a Headmaster who evinces the readiest propensity for showing character flaws in that regard. Very soon, the prostitutes of
Suntreso will come out with their own story to tell about Achiaw.
Or they will leave it for the little girls from the nearby Prince of Peace Girls School to tell it.
Prempeh has collapsed completely with the deputy headmasters not on speaking terms with the disgraced headmaster.
