AHISCO organises homecoming event for Onukpai

A group of Onukpai enjoying their meal

Accra High School (AHISCO), on Saturday held a special home­coming event for old students of the school (Onukpai) as part of ac­tivities to mark its 100th anniversary.

It attracted former students of the various year-groups across the coun­try and the diaspora.

Clad in their beautiful centenary polo shirts, the old students danced to musical tunes, shared fond mem­ories and dined together to indicate the bond they shared.

The old students also engaged in sporting activities such as 50-meter race, draughts, and five-a-side foot­ball, oware, ludo, penalty shoot-out and tug-of-war.

In an interview with The Specta­tor, the Headmistress of the school, Ms Evelyn Sagbli Nabia, said the event allowed all Onukpai to reunite and relive their days in school.

She explained that the home­coming was to create a platform for many of the old students who claimed they have visited not the school since completion.

She, however, disclosed that others had contributed immensely to the development of the school but had never really come to see what their monies have been used for.

Ms. Nabia also used the opportu­nity to congratulate all students of the school and urged them to see the anniversary as the beginning of a new chapter.

“Hundred years is the end of a chapter of a school or an institution. However, it is also the beginning of a new chapter; so as stakeholders, let us come together to reopen a better and stronger chapter for our school to a new level as far as education in Ghana is concerned,” she added.

The National President of the Old Students Association of Accra High School (AHISCOSA), Mr Edmund Kofi Duffour Addae, urged the students to have the aim of achieving their goals.

The school will celebrate its 100th anniversary and Speech and Prize-giving day on Saturday, Novem­ber 18, 2023.

 By Jemima Esinam Kuatsinu