La Dade-Kotopon marks Constitution Week in 40 schools
Officials of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) spent last week educating the public, especially schoolchildren, on the need to uphold Ghanaian values as part of the National Constitution Week held throughout the country.
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In the La Dade-Kotopon Municipality, the NCCE officials visited 40 schools, interacted with the pupils and taught them the importance of Ghanaian values. They invited speakers from all walks of life to encourage them to be responsible citizens.
The Constitution Week coincided with the gruesome murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama by a mob at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region.
The murder, which caused public uproar, also brought to the fore the need to educate the public on their civic duties.
The NCCE officials at La Dade- Kotopon seized the opportunity to educate the schoolchildren on their civic rights and responsibilities.
The week-long celebration was launched by the Municipal Director of Education, Madam Bernice Addae. She expressed her displeasure with the youth’s tendency to wrongly copy Western culture, suggesting that young people were beginning to lose their identity. She criticised them for dressing indecently and exposing parts of their body which should be covered. She called for a restoration of the country’s rich values which she said was necessary for the country to continue to enjoy the peace and freedom it had.
Madam Addae urged the schoolchildren to put the interest of Ghana first, respect and obey school rules, as well as live in a dignified manner. She stressed that such values made Ghanaians unique and distinguished among the of nations.
The Municipal Director of the NCCE, Mrs Gloria Kudu, explained that the Constitutional Week was instituted to instil in young people the tenets of the constitution and virtues of good citizenship.
She expressed the hope that the children had learnt a lot from the various speakers who interacted with them.
The resource persons who interacted with the pupils included the Deputy Coordinating Director, Daniel Nkrumah, and Alhaji Haruna Salem, the Deputy Director, of the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly. The theme for the celebration was “Restoring our Ghanaian values: The role of the child.”