Three Students initiate peace project
Three Communication Studies students of the University of Ghana, Legon have initiated a programme to support peace efforts by other organisations.
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Dubbed “OneGhana Project”, its objective is to get a cross-section of the Ghanaian society to vouch for peace and unity.
It is also a peace picture campaign in which those involved would take a picture with the Peace Board.
The Chief Executive of the OneGhana Project, Mr Tommy Emmanuel Doku, made this known when the team called on the Director of Newspapers of the Graphic Communications Group Limited, Mr Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh, at the company’s head office in Accra.
He said the Peace Board, as the receptacle for peace messages, allowed the individuals who subscribed to the project to scribble down peace messages such as ‘I am proud to be a Ghanaian; and I stand for peace and unity’.
He also said so far, politicians from both the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had signed onto the campaign. Others, he said, included former President J.J. Rawlings, Dr Emmanuel Akwetey of the Institute of Democratic Governance; Mr J.H. Mensah, a Senior Minister in the Kufuor administration, and musicians like Obuor, Okyeame Kwame and EL.
Mr Doku explained that he and his colleagues, Mr Isaac Nunoo and Mr Kodjo Silas, decided to initiate the peace project because ‘the future belongs to the youth and it is their responsibility to protect it.”
He was optimistic that there would be a united Ghana after the Supreme Court had given its verdict on August 29.
Mr Boadu-Ayeboafoh commended the students for their initiative and urged all Ghanaians to respect the decision of the Supreme Court.
By Donald Ato Dapatem/Daily Graphic/Ghana
