Be agents of change in your schools, communities — Deputy NCCE Director

Pupils and students in the basic and senior high schools have been advised to be agents of change in their schools, communities and wherever they find themselves to promote cherished values of the Ghanaian society.

‘As Ghanaians, we have values such as patriotism, tolerance, humility and respect for the rule of law that we cherished so much as a country and there is therefore the need to ensure that we learn those values while in school and make sure we practice them so that they become part and parcel of our lives into our adulthood as our national identity’.

The Deputy Greater Accra Regional Director for National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Gloria Kudo, gave the advice to crown the 2025 Citizenship Week celebration at Saint Justin Anglican 1 Basic School at Ablekuma in the Ga Central Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.

The programme on the theme: ‘’Ghana’s future: The role of the Ghanaian Child’’ was sponsored by Governance Africa Foundation with support from the Ga Central Municipal Assembly.

Citizenship week

The citizenship week celebration has been a flagship initiative of the NCCE providing a unique platform to educate young Ghanaians on their civic responsibilities, national identity and active citizenship. This annual event connects accomplished personalities with pupils from Primary Four to junior high school and offer them mentorship that inspires the Ghanaian child to aspire, lead and contribute meaningfully to national development.

As part of the programme, copies of the 1992 Constitution donated by the NCCE and sanitisers donated by the Ga Central Municipal Assembly were presented to the school to strengthen reading activities of the school’s civic club and the sanitary aspect of the school.                  

Mrs Kudo noted with concern that the future of Ghana depended on the values, knowledge and civic consciousness instilled in its children today.

Mrs Kudo, who lauded the children for their very active participation in the programme with their questions and answers, said this year’s programme sought to redefine the role of the Ghanaian child not as a passive observer, but as a proactive nation-builder. 

The Ga Central Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Emmanuel Addotey Allotey, told the schoolchildren that though they were young today but the habits they formed, the values they embraced and the choices they made would shape the kind of Ghana we would have tomorrow.

‘’Your education, discipline, academic honesty, environmental responsibility, unity, tolerance and love for the country are some of the tools you need to become a responsible and patriotic citizen,’’ the MCE stressed.

The Greater Accra Regional Director of NCCE, Mary Dagbah, stressed the need for the schoolchildren to take sanitation issues seriously as their neglect led to flooding in parts of the country, which was a worry not only to the affected people but to the entire country.

She advised the schoolchildren not to litter the environment but to reuse and recycle plastic waste in their communities and stop dumping refuse into gutters and drains.

The Headmistress of the school, Felicia Yeboah, assured the NCCE that the donated books, including copies of the 1992 Constitution, would be used effectively to enhance the learners’ reading during library periods.

The Municipal Director of Education for Ga Central, Ibrahim Mumuni, who was represented by the Head of Teaching and Learning, Sandra Odei-Acheampong, advised the learners to share the message with their peers in other schools and their communities.