By Albert Allotey, GNA
Accra, Nov. 10, GNA – The President of the Ahantaman Old Students Association (AHOSA GLOBAL), Madam Jessica Ayerakwa (aka. Honourable Jessica), has called on members to close their factions and collaborate to improve teaching and learning in the school.
She said, “Power struggles within an alumni Association are entirely meaningless if the school they represent is reduced to a shadow of its former self,” adding, “It is time we channel our energies, resources, and collective knowledge toward fighting the decay eating away our Alma Mater.”
Madam Jessica made the call in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra as the school approaches its 80th anniversary in 2028.
She said Ahantaman Girls SHS now battled a poor national recognition of academic excellence, a symptom of an identity crisis forced upon it from within and without.
“The sudden disruption of our time-honoured culture and traditions has coincided with a visible decline in academic performance and erosion of our once-celebrated achievements,” she stated.
She said, “The battle line is not within the Association; The true battle is to rescues the school itself,” adding, “True Royal seniors, the call to action is urgent and non-negotiable.”
She stated that AHOSA GLOBAL has been an association that has successfully thrived and defended the school’s interest for decades and that leaders who are self-centred must avoid such attitude.
Madam Jessica quoted J.B. Danquah of blessed memory that: “An army that fights against its own camp before reaching the battlefield has already handed the crown to the enemy.”
She paid glowing tribute to the leaders of the association who despite pressures continued to let Ahantaman School breathe and survive through unyielding dedication of AHOSA GLOBAL.
She emphasised that “We owe an immense debt of appreciation to the firm, resolute leaders and members who stood like a fortress to secure the Association legacy.”
“Your resilience against internal subversion and institutional drift is the only reason our history has not been completely overwritten, and that while others try to tear down the tent, you are laying concrete foundations for the next generation. You are the true keepers of the flame,” she said.
Madam Jessica said as the 80th milestone of the school loomed, members of the current leadership should turn from their ways, stating, “Let the enablers step back, let the selfish recalculate their allegiance, and let the true Royals stand up to fight for the resurrection of our academic and cultural prominence.”
She said the Association would rewrite this trajectory, because they know that no matter how brutal the current chapter was, the final verdict belonged to their collective labour.
The school is 78 years old and would attain 80 in 2028, being was established in 1948 as Takoradi Commercial Academy, and in 1965 became Royal Commercial College (ROCOCO).
Then ten years later in 1975 became Royal Commercial Secondary School (ROCOSEC), and in 1980 renamed Ahantaman Secondary/Ahantaman SHS.
On 17th November 2010 it was converted to Ahantaman Girls’ SHS (AHGISS).
GNA
Edited by Christabel Addo