Sankofaonline Editorial Board : July 18, 2026.
The Lalana Accord has arrived not as a polite suggestion but as a direct confrontation with the complacency that has weakened Zion College. For years, the institution has watched its academic standards erode while stakeholders traded excuses, nostalgia, and ceremonial rhetoric.
That era is over. The Academic Committee of the Zion College Old Students Association has forced the institution to face itself, and Sankofaonline will state plainly that this intervention was overdue.
At Lalana Beach Resort in Anloga, a full spectrum of stakeholders gathered for a two day reckoning. Past students, staff, administrators, parent teacher association representatives, and the board of governors were compelled to confront the uncomfortable truth that every group has contributed to the school’s decline.
The first day was not a workshop. It was an audit of failure. Working groups dissected their own lapses with unflinching clarity and produced remedies that demand discipline rather than discussion. The creation of a monitoring and evaluation team signaled a decisive shift. Zion College will no longer operate on goodwill, nostalgia, or ceremonial oversight. It will operate on measurable performance, enforced accountability, and consequences for inaction.
The second day placed responsibility squarely on the student body. Twenty three student units engaged in blunt, unsentimental debate about how misconduct has undermined academic achievement and how entrenched behavioral issues have sabotaged the school’s progress. Their proposals were not symbolic gestures. They were structural corrections. They formed the backbone of a student driven honor code that will redefine conduct at Zion College.
A joint committee of student leaders and educators will refine these proposals into a draft for full student approval. For the first time in years, discipline will not be an administrative slogan. It will be a binding covenant owned by the students themselves.
This assembly was not a retreat. It was a confrontation with mediocrity. It was a declaration that Zion College refuses to become another cautionary tale of an institution that squandered its legacy. The Academic Committee, under the firm leadership of Professor Kofi Quashigah, has demonstrated the institutional courage that has been missing for far too long. Their work affirms a truth Sankofaonline has repeated without apology.
Excellence is not achieved through nostalgia or ceremonial speeches. It is achieved through structure, accountability, and the refusal to compromise standards.
