BHOBU 97’ Storms Kpando  To Support Alma Mater

This Saturday, January 20, 2018, the members of the 1997 Year Group of Bishop Herman College (BIHECO) will hit the road to Kpando in the Volta Region to donate 100 classroom customized furniture worth about GH¢30,000 to the School as their project to climax its 20^th anniversary of completing BIHECO.

During the visit on, the group is poised to reminisce the good old days as part of its 20^th Anniversary celebrations and also undertake some interactive programmes with the continuing students to complement the main anniversary project.

In an interview, Mr. Damian Avevor, an Executive Member of the 97’ Year Group, said last year January, representatives of the Group visited the School to familiarize with its needs and identify a project to mark its Anniversary.

“Upon the needs assessment, we realised that as a Group that there was the urgent need to support the School with furniture to enhance teaching and learning, Mr. Avevor added.

He said the group also has a future plan of considering some top up projects for the School depending on the windfall it might record and the specific needs of the School it chance upon.

He noted that Mr. Matthew Attimah, Headmaster of the College was anxiously waiting for us because “he knows the strength of our year group after we met him last year during the needs assessment tour.”

Mr. Avevor, who is the News Editor of The Catholic Standard, the National Catholic Weekly Newspaper, noted with pride that “The 1997 Year Group, which was the largest batch of 332 students in the history of the School, is currently made up old students in all spheres of the Ghanaian and international economy in the areas of Education, Health, Communication, Commerce, Politics, Security and Religion.”

The 97’ Year Group, he stated, has proudly produced two Roman Catholic Priests, Rev. Fr. Kizito Edmund Pesse-Kuma of the Ho Diocese in the Volta and Rev. Fr. Jacob Jagri of the Yendi Diocese in the Northern Region; Hon. Pius Hadidze, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports; Major Alex Abiti, S/Sgt. Raji Adenkule and S/Sgt. Anthony Fiatusey of the Ghana Armed Forces; ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, Eastern Regional PRO of Ghana Police Service; Dr. Riches Esiape and Dr. Cyril Amegbleto of the Ghana Health Service; Dr. Samuel Essien-Baidoo and Cyril Gavor, Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast; Edward Ayem, a Radiologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital; Mr. Simon Madjie, Executive Secretary of American Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Roland Walker formerly of TV 3 and now with Multimedia Group (JOY NEWS) and Dr. Kenneth Kpogo, who is based in the USA.

He was also grateful to the 20^th Anniversary Project team led by Mr. Wellington Amankwah, the Project Director; Mr. Benedict Adzogble, Project Fund Manager, Dr. Samuel Essien-Baidoo, Project PRO; Mr. Daniel Amedjoe, Mr. Ellorm Adonu, Mr. Michael Donkor, Daniel Adehenu, Frank Adase, Amen Nugba, Silas Anku, Seth Damanka, Gabriel Apatu, Francis Bortey, Evans Sallah, David Gonuh and other colleagues both home and abroad, who in diverse ways have supported this project.

He prayed that other Year Groups will also come on board to give continuous support to our alma mater, saying that the visit and donation of the 97 year group to the School will remain in the annals of the School.

Mr. Avevor who had the famous nick name Achipelago, during his School days, paid glowing tribute to the Late Rev. Fr. Justin Danso, former Headmaster of the School when the group entered BIHECO in 1995 before he was transferred when we were in SSS Two.

He said “not for the discipline of that noble Priest, many of them wouldn’t have been where we are now. As a Catholic Priest, discipline was his hall mark and we like him for that,” he added.

He also commended Mr. Gidigasu (Atta Gidi), the Senior House Master and Mr. Pius Serracouh, then Assistant Headmaster of the School, who later acted as Headmaster from 1996 to 1998, for continuing the disciplinary records set by Fr. Danso was transferred to Jasikan Training College as Principal.

According to Mr. Avevor, , BIHECO has also produced a number of prominent Ghanaians including the first African/Ghanaian Bishop of the then Keta-Ho Diocese, Emeritus Bishop Francis Anani Kofi Lodonu; Retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice Francis Y. Kpegah; the first Ghanaian Plastic Surgeon, Mr. Fabian Mork.

Others, he mentioned, were Hon. Clement Kofi Humado, former Minister for Youth and Sports and MP for Anlo; Mr. Anthony Fofie, former Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board; Prof. Jerry Kuma, Vice Chancellor of University of Mines and Technology at Tarkwa; Hon. Fiifi Kwetey, former Minister of Agriculture; Prof. Ernest Dumor, Veteran movie star Gavivina Tamakloe, Hip-pop artiste Ayigbe Edem, Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome and many others.

He said BIHECO has also chalked many in academic and co-curricular activities in line with the dream of the founding fathers but with many challenges as with many Secondary Schools in Ghana.

He said “since its founding, BIHECO had remained unsurpassed both at the regional and the national level. In fact, it also holds a West African academic record through the West African Examination Council (WAEC), the body that conducts examinations for five English-speaking West African countries, namely, The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.”