Teach young people relevance of peace - Veep tells teachers
The Vice-President, Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has asked teachers to continuously give lessons on the relevance of peace in national development to reduce the possibility of violence among the youth, especially as the country gets closer to the general election in December.
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He indicated that the youth, as the future of the nation, must be made to appreciate the importance of peace to the advancement of the nation in order for them to uphold and protect the peace the nation is currently enjoying.
He was speaking at a ceremony to close the 15th national cadet corps leadership training camp at Asuansi in the Central Region last Friday.
A total of 500 cadets attended the one-week camp during which the participants underwent training in leadership skills, community support, values of respect, loyalty, discipline and resilience through fun and challenging military-related activities.
Timely
Mr Amissah-Arthur said the camp was timely considering the fact that tensions were rife due to the general election.
He said he was optimistic that the cadets would use the training acquired to help calm nerves and help people to adopt the right behaviours during the election.
“The peace of this nation is necessary for progress and must not be disrupted,” he stated.
He charged the youth to carry the message of peace to the communities.
WASSCE results
The vice-president also asked Ghanaians not to politicise the current WASSCE results.
The politicisation of the results, he said, was uncalled for considering the admission by the Ghana Education Service that the results were better than last year's.
The Director General of the GES, Mr Jacob Kor, in a brief analysis of the percentage passes of the core subjects, said this year’s results were an improvement over last year's.
He said instead of politicising the results and creating the impression that students had performed poorly, parents, teachers and students must be commended for the efforts which contributed to the feat chalked up.
History of cadet corps
Mr Kor, who is also the Board Chairman of the National Cadets Corps, said the cadet corps was started 62 years ago at the Ghana Secondary Technical School in Takoradi to help encourage young men to join the military.
He noted that the cadet corps was now the biggest reliable youth group with a membership of 56,380.
He said the national cadet corps board was working to regulate the activities and programmes of the national cadet corps and to bring a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to prevent other auxiliary groups at all levels that impersonated or wished to use the youth and students for their personal gains.
The Ankobeahen of the Abura Traditional Area, Nana Kumgyata VI, called for an urgent improvement of the roads in the area.
