Haughtiness, in all shapes and forms, have always had a tendency to lend itself to the ultimate demise of many a great person or position. Greek literature thought us that there is a major price for arrogance; Mythology is sated with so many examples of arrogant mortals who were debased for considering themselves superior to the gods. There wasn't a single character in the catalog of Greek myth who was spared anguish for self-importance.

Life as we all know is littered with topical trips, sickening stumbles and calamitous caverns that pull the mighty of mind, body and ego down to a more manageable size at the least opportune moment. To understand how and why, let us plunge into the writings of William Shakespeare, precisely into his play, King Henry the Fifth, paying close attention to the words in bold, especially the ones in red:

One cad who believes he is the greatest Prempeh graduate and jeers at all Prempeh folks, is Ohene Aku Kwapong. Kwapong is the man who has been mocking people for years because of his greatness. When Kwapong enters the room, all forms of societal propriety is abandoned. Modesty, decency and all those virtues which even Artful Dodger used to observe in his clan, are thrown into the dustbin.

Let us examine some of his public statements:

"I really do not want to be involved with any of you Prempeh people. I'm 38yrs old, I've made my money, I have a beautiful wife....all gratitude to God.....Let me enjoy my life."

- Ohene Aku Kwapong, Class of '79

"Yes. I went to Prempeh and I was an ASP there...and I very much appreciated it, but there are other schools I went to that are more closer to my heart than Prempeh. Yes. I attended Prempeh College from 1974-1981 (7years), I also attended Salem Boys Boarding School, but I also did attend MIT for 7 years, and then there is Columbia University.....so I have plenty of schools to worry about helping. There are more important things in my life like my BEAUTIFUL WIFE to worry about."

- Ohene Aku Kwapong, Class of '79

"I've been living in London with my beautiful wife and somehow there are all these garbage being thrown at me. IF YOU ARE A MARRIED MAN, I HOPE YOU ALSO FEEL PROUD ENOUGH ABOUT YOUR WIFE TO SCREAM IT ALOUD TO THE WHOLE WORLD.....AT LEAST, JUST TO HONOR HER."

- Ohene Aku Kwapong, Class of '79

Kwapong's reasons for his overweening behavior, are that he has found "a beautiful wife," he holds a PhD (even if in an insignificant field) and an MBA.

Though he is bereft of the four characteristics which the great Bertrand Russel considered to be the criteria of prominent men, namely vitality, courage, receptivity and intelligence, Kwapong considers himself "the greatest" man because of his achievement of a loss of his virginity at a SHOCKING age of 38. And it is mainly this fanfaronades on the part of Kwapong that provoke the gossip that our Suban ne Nimdee (Knowledge & Integrity) motto might be specious afterall. In a few bold strokes Kwapong has drawn the character of the Prempeh people into disrepute by painting scabrous pictures of his wife in public discourse.

Because this writer is one of the many people who antagonized Kwapong in the crusade for decorum and bragging-free fraternity, one may be tempted to construe this piece as a Parthian shot, but it is not! For his around-the-clock braggings about his accomplishments and his wife's private parts have won him enemies aplenty. Just bring any company of celestial beings together after 20 minutes of meeting Kwapong, and if the presence of a calming and penetrating genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of barbarous, murderous intentions would come up! If angel Gabriel would love to murder Kwapong, that shows where he (Kwapong) stands in our society.

Owing to his constant braggings, a lot of angry Amanfoo have attacked him over the years, which we have compiled some here for posterity. Just peruse the website archives and read what people have written about Ohene Aku Kwapong and you could catalogue a few of the unpleasantest words that ever blotted paper! Show us a man who loves Kwapong, and has something positive to say about him, and we will show you a man who doesn't exist!

When Prempeh held a Golden Jubilee Celebration in December 1999, Aku Kwapong made a trip to Ghana to attend the event. But alas, Kwapong had to hide in Accra, the capital, and was never able to travel to Kumasi to witness the ceremony because a mob of over 300 people laid ambush in anticipation of Kwapong's arrival - each with a very commonplace wish of decapitating him. I mock thee not! Not only do even the unborn revile Kwapong, his thousands of adversaries, especially the Canadian Division of the anti-Kwapong Crusade, known as JAOK (Juniors Against Ohene Kwapong) has even set up a website. Besides the recurring assaults on his life, a JAOK group based in Texas hacked into Kwapong's personal business website, mBaX.com, recently, destroying the site and deleting all his files. The following is the row that broke out that day and Kwapong's pronouncements, the most distressing of which have been highlighted in the preceding quotes (above) for your convenience.

Taking any man into a service or leadership position (corporation, institution, political) represents a huge commitment and we have gleaned over the years that throwing the combustible Kwapong into any such society or organization may risk turning an impressive statement of intent into an expensive disaster.

We gathered from Vergil's Aeneid that: "It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task."

Since Kwapong stands fundamentally opposed to everything our alma mater holds in veneration, namely HUMILITY, courage, decency, nobility of style, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, empathy for our fellow men, we hereby implore Aku Kwapong to "retrace his steps to the upper air" and resuscitate his putrid reputation. Because never again should Amanfoo submit to insults by a man with Narcissistic Personality Disorder who appears to lack empathic recognition of the fraternal destructiveness of his actions and the consequences of such actions to his future and his career. Never again shall we submit to insults by a man so ribald. Thomas Mann said that "A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries." If this is true, then we Prempeh people are saddened to live the life of Aku Kwapong - a man who's not fit to be our contemporary, much less our fraternal brother! If we are living the life of Kwapong, then we must all bow down our heads in shame and weep, for having betrayed the unborn as well as the dead!