ABOUT CKC
Christ the King College, CKC as is popularly known throughout Sierra Leone is situated on the outskirts of BO Town the provincial headquarters of Sierra Leone. Founded by the Roman Catholic mission in 1954 CKC was run by the Holy Ghost Order missionaries under the late Rev Fr. Corbet, cssp at the site of the present St Francis primary school compound in BO.
He sadly passed away in november 1979 on the eve of the celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the school's founding. He was attending the occasion as a special guest. He had returned home to Ireland several years prior to that. When he left he was succeeded by Fr. Jeremiah Lambe who was himself succeeded by Fr Curran.
The present principal Mr Henry Sheku is a past pupil of the school.
In the three decades following its founding CKC was renowned as an institution of academic excellence attracting pupils from as far away as neighbouring Liberia.
The school produced some of the finest professionals and academics many now occupying positions of responsibilty in many institutions in the western world. Many Ex -CKC pupils could be found in Europe, particulaly in the United Kingdom as well as America and Canada
In Sierra Leone itself Ex CKC pupils today occupy the highest positions in government and the civil service
For the past eight years Sierra Leone has been in the grips of a senseless war waged by some military adventurists backed by some of Sierra Leone's neighbours who have plundered the wealth, human and mineral resources of the country and caused a total breakdown of law and order . This war mainly directed at local people living in rural areas has reversed development in every sphere of life in the country.
Education everywhere in the country has been disrupted as schools have remained closed for most of the past eight years, and/or have been forced to be overpopulated in order to provide the basic facilities during short spells of negotiated peace accords .
CKC has been no exception to this unfortunate situation. The walls and roofs of the school building are riddled with bullets holes. Conditions are so appalling that in the middle of the rainy season the principal of the school Mr Henry Sheku made an appeal to Ex pupils in the United Kingdom to request help towards repair of the roof to prevent rain from further damaging the already scarred walls.
The one thing that remain unchanged is the crocodile.It survived the mayhem, but it is also suffering due to lack of proper care and attention.
It is in response to this situation that ex pupils living in the United Kingdom have galvanised themselves into action by embarking on many projects with the aim of improving the quality of education in our former school.