“High numbers
of school children selling by the road side is worrying”-
Obeng
Koforidua, June 30,
Ghanadot/GNA- The Eastern Regional Director of the
Centre for National Culture (CNC), Mr Kingsley Obeng, on
Monday expressed worry over the high incidence of children
selling by the road side at the time they are supposed to be
in school, and called for more parental care.
To him the attainment of the Millennium Development Goal
which advocates for the right of all children to education,
health and shelter could not be achieved without parents
performing their basic and natural role in providing proper
care and basic facilities for their children.
Mr Obeng who was addressing school children from the Ghateco
Junior High school and the Good Shepherd Anglican School at
a debate to commemorate African Union Day of the Child in
Koforidua, therefore, called on parents to live up to their
parental responsibilities.
He said the practice of children selling by the road side
although in the Ghanaian context could be seen as helping
their parents run the home, could in the long term pose a
threat to their future welfare.
Mr Obeng urged the children not to allow bad company and
other social vices to influence their education since it was
their only hope for a better life in future.
The Regional Director of the Ministry of Women and
Children’s Affairs, Mr Samuel Dontoh, said the debate was
part of activities lined up to celebrate the regional
version of the AU Day of the Child in commemoration of the
1992 Soweto incident in South Africa in which many school
children were killed.
GNA
