Obuasi Leads KNUST School of Engineering with 4 Students elected Departmental Presidents
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has four out of its seventeen Departmental Presidents all being students from Obuasi with Julius Boakye as the President of Metallurgical Engineering Department, Oscar Amponsah as the President of the Chemical Engineering Department, Julius Owusu as the President of the Petrochemical Engineering Department and Joel Obeng Abu as the President of the Geomatics Engineering Department
Joseph Marfo 
Four engineering students namely Julius Boakye Kakra, Oscar Amponsah, Julius Owusu, and Joel Obeng Abu coming from Obuasi have assumed the position of Departmental Presidents in the Engineering Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(KNUST), Kumasi.
The Obuasi students have had four out of the seventeen KNUST Departmental Presidential positions.
The students; Julius Boakye as the President of Metallurgical Engineering Department, Oscar Amponsah as the President of the Chemical Engineering Department, Julius Owusu as the President of the Petrochemical Engineering Department, and Joel Obeng Abu as the President of the Geomatics Engineering Department.
This is the first time group of students from Obuasi has achieved this feat.
Speaking to Shaft Fm morning show host by Justice Dzivon Mensah a.k.a Ghanaba, Master Oscar Amponsah (President of the Chemical Engineering Department,) said, “Leadership is about allowing yourself to be inducted into the school of servantry where you serve and serve unto your own greatness, so we are here to deliver to our people and inspire the up and coming students in Obuasi with our service because it is a good feeling to coming from Obausi and attaining such positions but it is challenging."
The four students who were all born and breaded in Obuasi had their basic and Junior High Education in Obuasi until when some of them went to SHS outside Obausi.
When quizzed whether they all decided to offer engineering with the aim of working with Anglogold Ashanti, the giant multinational mining company operating in Obausi they said, "Engineering goes beyond working in a mining company but also developing technologies to help solve a country's developmental problems and we want to get to that stage with an Innovative Technology. We have started and want to build into something bigger."
Inspired by what they have been able to achieve; they intend to come together to mobilize all students from the Adansi enclave currently on the various campuses to see how best they can collaborate to drive the future developmental agenda.
Kofi Wusu Brempong, Obuasi
