The popular vociferous musician and founder of the People’s Project Movement Kwame A Plus, has added his voice to the brouhaha about the refusal of the headmistress of Achimota School to admit students with dreadlocks.
The latter part of last week was characterized with public discourse on whether the headmistress of Achimota School was right rejecting students with dreadlocks admission. There were diverse views most of which were shared on social media after the father of one of the said students shared the issue on his Facebook page.
First to comment on the issue was Honourable Ras Mubarak, former Member of Parliament for Kumbungu Constituency, who stated that the headmistress erred at her decision. There were many others who joined the call for the affected students to be admitted.
The call caught the attention of the Ghana Education Service, thanks to the power of social media. The headmistress was directed to admit the students. GES went further to state that the students only need to keep their hair well kept and tied.
This morning, Kwame A Plus, who is noted for controversial but thought-provoking opinions, shared his perspective on the issue on his Facebook page.
To him, students have been cutting their hair since independence yet the Ghana Atomic Energy cannot produce a ‘knockout’. Also, he added that the National Science and Maths Quiz is only interested in oral science, students with dreadlocks are landing rovers on Mars in other countries but Ghana, ‘nsemhunuu nkwaa’.
The post shared is below. Read for yourself and share your thoughts on it.
“Students have been cutting their hair before independence yet Ghana atomic energy can not produce “knockout” or fireworks for Christmas; we import knockout and toothpick from China.
Achimota school has produced majority of the people who have held key positions in this country. “I went to Achimota, I went to Achimota” yet Ghana no enoaa nie.
Countries where students don’t cut their hair are landing rovers on Mars and opening women’s wombs to operate on babies before they are born. “I went to Adisco, I went to Kwabotwe, I went to St. Peter,” as for Prempeh college I won’t talk about them because my big brother Chairman Wontumi went to school there.
Apart from winning “Oral” science and math quiz what else? The quiz madam too will be there asking nsɛmhunu which can’t land a man on a coconut tree not to talk of the moon. “Now the problem of the day. When a pendulum moves in the direction of equilibrium, what is the velocity of osmosis divided by photosynthesis.” Nkwasiasɛm nkoaaa! The problem of the day is rather our education system! Forgeti pendulum!
Have you experienced your friends and boys boys insulting you before? Today is the day the Lord has made. Adey go wear bulletproof.”
