Cape Coast, Nov. 17,
GNA – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference Ghana has implored the President to take
further steps to prevent future reintroduction of the Comprehensive Sexuality
Education (CSE) in any form into the country’s educational curriculum.
According the
Bishops, the general uproar that greeted the CSE was indicative of what should
be expected in an attempt to have external or foreign policy imposed on the
country without adequate engagement of citizens who would be affected.
These were in a
communique issued by the Ghana Bishops’ Conference at the end of its annual
Plenary Assembly at Elmina on Friday.
While commending the
President for assuring Ghanaians that the CSE would not happen under his watch,
the Bishops’ Conference want the nation to make its position unequivocally
clear and put in place measures to deter people who propagate those “evil
policies.”
The communique also
urged the Government, private sector, Civil Society Organisation, faith based
organisations and all stakeholders to treat the growing joblessness among the
youth as a national security issue and come up with practical and innovative
solutions to relieve young citizens of any lingering stress of unemployment.
It, however,
admonished the youth not to lose sight of the changing trends but be creative
and explore available opportunities to establish their own businesses.
The Bishops’
Conference further noted with great concern political interference in the
selection, training and operations of the security services and called for an end
to it.
The practice, it
said, allowed unqualified and persons with dubious characters to be recruited
into the security services, making their performance ineffective.
Thus, it said,
protocol recruitment should be discouraged while competitive recruitment must
be done to ensure that only the best were recruited.
The Communique
further urged the Government to do more to address the heightened concerns
about the general insecurity in the country.
Commenting on the
challenges associated with the Free Senior High School Policy, the Bishops
called for a broader national dialogue of relevant stakeholders to review all
aspects of it.
It said the policy
and challenges associated with the Computerised School Selection Placement
System must be tackled to better serve the nation.
GNA
