By Paul Mamattah
The Awutu Senya East Municipal Office of the National Commission for Civic Education, NCCE, has marked this year’s Citizenship Week’ by engaging 43 schools in the Municipality to educate the pupils on the qualities of a good citizenry.
Speaking at the weeklong celebration, the Awutu Senya Municipal Director of the NCCE, Mrs. Mary Ankrah, said the purpose of the annual celebration is to distill the virtues of patriotism and the qualities of a good citizen in the students to mold them into role models and mentors in their community.
She emphasized the need to inculcate in pupils the values of citizenship, and a sense of patriotism as a means of preparing them to be responsible adults and leaders in their communities and the country as a whole.
Mrs. Ankrah explained that as the Commission celebrates 30 years of consolidating our democratic gains and building national unity, it is important to reinforce civic values in children with the sole aim to reorient their attitude towards playing a positive role in our democratic journey.
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“Children are a spring of life and an extraordinary blessing to the nation. The youth are our future leaders, there is the need to catch them young and instill in them certain disciplines, virtues, and principles to enable them to grow up with it to become good and responsible leaders in the future”. Mrs. Ankrah added.
The NCCE Director stressed that under the Fourth Republic, the Ghanaian child and youth have been recognized as a major source of human capital and key agents for socio-cultural, economic, and political development as well as technological innovation.
Mrs. Ankrah further admonished the school children to refrain from acts that would jeopardize their future and also to take their studies seriously, and desist from using violence and dubious ways to get what they decide to have without considering the consequences and decorum in language.
She encouraged them to be patriotic citizens and allow the Ghanaian identity to guide them in everything they do saying; patriotism and nationalism must be a guiding principle, and they must stay united and be disciplined in all aspects of life.
