The Prempeh College Cadet Corps, which was founded in the 1954/55 academic year, celebrated their
Golden Jubilee on June 19, 2004.
Prempeh Cadets getting into the air force plane at the Kumasi Airport on their way to Daboya in the Northern Region of Ghana for four weeks intensive military training in 1980
The cadet is an outfit set up to teach students hoping
to make an army career the rudiments of the aemy. the Cadet Corps though
being in the school is under the auspices of the Second Brigade of Infantry.
At the beginning of the 1985/86 academic year, the Cadet Corps bid farewell
to our former P.S.I WOI Seidu Busanga who had served in the school for
about 30 years. He was replaced by P.S.I. WOI Nutakor, a very dynamic man.
Cadets who are taught about army life are taught weapon drill, swimming
and section battle formation. To keep the cadets fit, there is an "endurance"
on every other Saturday. This is quite a good experience to both the cadets
and the civilians in the school who usually take part. The School also
brings in an instructor from the 4th Battalion of Infantry to prepare the
boys for Speech and Prize Giving Days.
Prempeh College cadets are also
in charge maintaining order and preventing all sorts of unecessary riots
during Inter-Collegiate Sports Competitions at the Kumasi Sports Stadium.
Furthermore, our Cadet boys nearly always participate at the Stadium during
Independence Day Celebrations. In two such occasions, our cadets WOII Abu
Ibrahim and WOI Amoako have been honoured with "The Best Cadet Sword."
Abu Ibrahim is also the first and the only cadet boy in Ghana to command
the national Independence Day Anniversary parade at the Kumasi Sports Stadium
from 1986 and 1989.
Another great achievement of the Corps is that it has
been able to produce graduates from the Military Academy. One of these
is Oppong Y.T., our 1982/83 Assistant Senior Prefect.
Cadet training in Tamale in 1967. Here a cadet is seen listening to Cpl. Annan
1966: Cadets assembling the rifles after "strooping" at the 1966 Tamale camping
Presdident JA Kufuor, who was a member of the pioneer cadet group of 1954, inspects the
cadet corps in December 2001.
Prempeh cadets celebrate their 50th Anniversary in 2004
Check out the Cadet Jubilee
Archive, which consists of photographs and media reports of the Golden Jubilee
of the most famous cadet corps in Ashanti, along with the Cadet Photo Gallery.
