All roads are leading to Kpando for the climax of the 70th Anniversary (Platinum) of the establishment of Bishop Herman College (BIHECO), the premier Catholic Boys School in the Volta Region of *the Republic of Ghana.
Members of the Bishop Herman Old Boys Union (BHOBU), teaching and non-teaching staff, students, stakeholders and friends will be converging for this historic anniversary that aims to bringing together all who have a relation with one of the prestigious boys’ school in Ghana.
Under the distinguished patronage of Togbe Tepre Hodo IV, President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs and an Old Boy, the year-long 70th anniversary is on the Theme: “Excellent Secondary Education Delivery in the Midst of COVID-19: Prospects and Challenges.”
As part of the climax, there would be a Career and Business Day on Thursday, November 24; Homecoming and Borborbor night on Friday, November 25; Speech and Prize Giving and Grand Durbar on Saturday, November 26 and a Thanksgiving Mass on Sunday, November 27 to be presided over by the Most Rev. Emmanuel Kofi Fianu, SVD, the Catholic Bishop of Ho.
Expected at the Durbar are the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo or his representative; Mr. Geoffrey Badasu, the Kpando Municipal Chief Executive; and Okpekpewuokpe Torgbuiga DAGADU XI the Paramount Chief of the Akpini Traditional Area, also an Old Boy.
Bishop Herman College was founded on February 28, 1952 at Kpando in the Volta Region of Ghana by the then Keta Diocese of the Catholic Church as a Boy’s Secondary Boarding School.
BIHECO as the School has come to be known, was named after Bishop Augustine Herman, a Frenchman who was Bishop of the Keta Diocese from 1923-1945.
Bishop Herman’s legendary exemplary Christian life and his love for education saw him setting up Schools in most of the communities he succeeded in planting the Catholic faith.
It came thus as no surprise that when the Keta Diocese wanted to establish an exemplary, par excellence secondary school to train young boys in the pursuit of spiritual and academic discipline they decided to name it after him.
The school started in the premises of the Roman Catholic Mission, Kpando (Gabi) and in 1954 moved to its current home on the Aloryi Hills overlooking the Kpando township and the magnificent Volta Lake.
BIHECO became a reality through the committed faithful of the Catholic Church in the then Keta Diocese, the people of Kpando-Aloryi [on whose land the school stands] and others from the Netherlands (through the initiative of the first Headmaster).
By Damian Avevor ( BHOBU 97 & Robert Dela Mawuenyegah (BHOBU 2003)
