EXCLUSIVE: Four facts you may not know about Achimota Rasta student who scored 8As In 2023 WASSCE
In 2021, social media was set ablaze over the rejection of two students by Achimota School over their dreadlocks.
The decision by Achimota School attracted an avalanche of comments from all corners of the country, and a High Court order overturning the decision of the century-old school lit up flames of smiles on the faces of all Rastafarians in the country.
It was a hard-fought victory against the same system that the school justified as producing high-profile persons such as the first president of Ghana, Dr Kwame Nkrumah; former President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe; ex-Ghana presidents Jerry John Rawlings and Professor Evans Atta Mills; and Ghana’s incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo.
Three years down the lane, one of the rejected stones, Tyrone Marhguy, has become the cornerstone of the same school that showed him a red card.
Today, Tyrone Marhguy, the resilient rasta student, is the proud guidon bearer of the black and white flag as he stands on top of the Achimota tower clock, ‘Big Ben’, to say, “I have proven you wrong”.
The poster rasta student has chalked 8As in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results posted by The West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
Tyrone wasn’t just an Achimota School student but participated in the 2023 National Science and Math Quiz as a member of the school’s team.
Here, The Ghana Report recaps some interesting facts after spending the entire morning on the day Tyrone was admitted to school in 2021 with the Marguy family.
The Ghana Report gathered these facts after we helped Tereo Marhguy, father of Tyrone, to get his son settled, offering to drive him to get the items the administration at Achimota required.
Here are four exclusive facts we learned about Tyrone, originally published on June 4, 2021.
- Tyrone plays many musical instruments
The Marhguy family owns a band – The Triplet Roots Band – that was put together by Tereo. His two daughters play different instruments, including the organ and the guitar. However, it would appear Tyrone is the star of the band as, according to his father, the teenager can play everything from the drums to anything.
- He likes to read
Apart from his ability to play all the instruments in the band, Tyrone has a voracious appetite for reading. His father admitted to us that Tyrone’s desire to always be caught with some literature has sometimes frustrated him (Tereo). However, despite the numerous times he has admonished his son to cultivate a multidisciplinary personality, Tyrone has not given up his eagerness to read.
It would seem this insatiable need to always read has endeared Tyrone to the Ghanaian public as he continues to be praised for his intelligence and ability to articulate his thoughts.
- Tyrone and Oheneba were not friends until the case ensued
One of the unintended consequences of his legal challenge against Achimota has been that Tyrone has made a new friend in Oheneba, the other Rastafarian student Achimota has barred. Contrary to popular public assumptions, the Nkrabea and Marhguy families did not even know each other nor plan for Tyrone and Oheneba to end up in the same school.
According to Tereo, Ras Aswad Nkrabea, father of Oheneba, chanced upon them (Tereo and Tyrone) while dealing with the same issue of Oheneba’s hair at the Achimota School administration.
Tyrone, however, has formed a promising friendship with Oheneba throughout their struggles.
- Tyrone can make wind turbines
Having learned how to engineer simple machines while he was a young technical school student in Germany, Tereo has been able to teach Tyrone how to make a simple domestic wind turbine.
According to the boy’s father, Tyrone is so adept at this skill that he, Tereo, is left surprised. Tereo is hopeful that with time, Ghana and the world will be able to see his son’s engineering talents.