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Did you know that King Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has a daughter who is not only a doctor by profession but also an entrepreneur?
Dr. Caryn Agyeman Prempeh, popularly known as Ohemaa, despite being a princess of the Ashanti Kingdom, did not let the pride and pomp of royalty hinder her education and ambitions.
The mother of two and CEO of Ohemaa Detergents revealed in an interview with Lexis Bill on JoyFM’s Personality Profiles show that her dream as a child was not to become a doctor but to become a mining engineer.
Dr Agyeman Prempeh says she dreams of becoming the “female version” of Sir Sam Jonah, one of Ghana’s most prominent and richest businessmen and former CEO of Ashanti Gold Mines, whom she hailed as “a great man”.
However, this dream came to an end when she visited a mining site with her idol Sir Sam Jonah.
“From a very young age I wanted to be a mining engineer. I wanted to be the female version of Sir Sam Jonah.”
“However, I once spent a weekend in Obuasi with him (Sam Jonah) and my dad when I was a kid. He took me to the mines and I found it very dark. I asked the vehicle controller to take me back and he said, ‘We can’t go back, we have to keep going until we get out,'” Ohema narrated.
She added: “I think I was depressed at the time and I was like, no, I don’t want to be there. However, recently I realised that the mining industry has changed so much that you can even eat there and have fun there. Maybe I should stay there.”
The princess said she wanted to pursue a career in medicine since high school after her dream of becoming a prominent female mining engineer was shattered.
She said her father, King Asanteman, was very supportive of her decision to become a doctor and encouraged her to achieve this goal.
“After junior high school, I went to Santa Rosa High School… From there, I had to complete my A-level exams at Edmonton Girls’ School in Oxford. Then I returned to KNUST for medical school. At Santa Rosa High School, I was convinced that I would go into medicine.
“He (the Otumfu family) wanted me to become a doctor. He always loved education and he felt if you are so good, why not be pushed to the highest level? You know our parents wanted you to become a doctor or a lawyer, but today things have changed.”
Dr. Agyeman Prempeh added that she wanted to do more than just practice medicine, which led her to establish the CERVIVA Foundation in her fifth year of medical school to raise awareness about cervical cancer, which many women are diagnosed with at an advanced stage, making it difficult for them to get the necessary medical care.
She also said she wanted to help address the shortage of detergents and disinfectants during the COVID-19 pandemic, so she set up her own company, Ohemaa Detergents.
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source: www.ghanaweb.com
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