LIBRARY IN MEMORY OF MONSIGNOR 'CHAMPION' APIETU (PAGE 46, JUNE 3, 2010)

A library in memory of the late Monsignor Rudolph Johnson Oyintey Kwaku Apietu was inaugurated last Saturday at Santrokofi Benua in the Santrokofi Traditional Area of the Hohoe Municipality in the Volta Region.
The library which is temporarily housed in a private premise is to be moved into an a permanent structure being constructed on a 30- acre plot at Benua.
It is being established by the R.J.A Foundation which is made up of mainly friends of the late Monsignor. The R.J.A. Foundation is under the leadership of Reverend Dr George Okyerefoh, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon.
The library will put together the memoirs of the late Monsignor Apietu who died in 2006 after 49 years of service as one of the pioneering priests of the Roman Catholic Church.
Monsignor Apietu was ordained in 1957 and served as the headmaster of the St Paul’s Senior High School at Denu in the Volta Region for 23 years.
He was also the Chaplain of the St Francis College of Education and a member of the Agyeman Badu Commission of 1976.
In an inaugural speech read on his behalf by the Adontehene of the area, Nana Otitiaku III, the Omanhene of the area, Okakple Letsabi II said the late Mgr. Apietu was an illustrious son, an accomplished educationist, a prudent administrator and, above all, a humble man of God, adding that his counsel to the youth who came his way was parallel to none and that was why it had become necessary to honour him and preserve his memory as a guide to the youth of the area.
Okakple Letsabi commended members of the R.J.A. Foundation for immortalising the memory of the late Monsignor and gave a promise that the chiefs and people of the traditional would provide every assistance for the early completion of the structure to house the library complex.
Nana Otitiaku cut the tape to inaugurate the library and led the people to the new site of the library complex which has been named Champion Avenue. He also cut the sod for work to begin on the permanent building to house the library complex.