Prince Kofi Amoabeng, the Businessman and former UT Bank boss, has reminisced about his days as a student at the University of Ghana.
According to Kofi Amoabeng, back in the days, there were paid and served three meals a day at the University of Ghana.
Speaking in an interview with veteran broadcaster Kafui Dey, Amoabeng recounted, “You go to university and you have to go on orientation because the university was so big, you needed to know your way around”.
“I was telling some young people I used to take the lift to Okponglo after class, and they were shocked,” he said. “They said, ‘What lift?’ I told them there used to be lifts working 24/7.”
“You had three square meals with options,” he recalled. “You could say, ‘I don’t like yam and parasol, I want salad and chicken,’ or ‘I want banku,’ and you’d get it.”
He further added, “The taxi would wait for me while I bought a mini bottle of beer and a packet of Rothmans. After that, the same taxi would take me back to campus — all for one cedi.”
“The money was powerful, man,” he added with a smile.
“Apart from everything being free, you were paid — and the money wasn’t small,” Amoabeng said. “We called it ‘millions.’ Your millions have arrived!”
He detailed that students received about 100 cedis a year, split across the three terms.
“With 1 cedi, I’d charter a taxi from campus straight to Continental Hotel — now Lancaster,” he said.
Kofi Amoabeng added, “You’d go to Togo to buy apples for a girl you were chasing,” he said, laughing.
“There was no apple in town back then. Togo was where you’d see real supermarkets.”
“Put it in your clothes, and it gives a beautiful smell,” he recalled.
