The Ahafo Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr. Eric Adu, has blamed the increasing rate of recalcitrance and uncontrollable acts by students on peer groups and social media influence.
He observed that peer pressure and the inappropriate use of social media are greatly affecting the moral values of our children in school and on the street.
He made this known in the wake of the initial punishments issued to the eight girls at Chiana Senior High School for publicly speaking against President Akufo Addo in November last year.
“Parents cannot be solely blamed for the woes of these young ones, but a greater portion of it must be linked to peer pressure, which is greatly affecting the innocent children in the school,” he told High Radio’s Kwaku Mensah Abrampa.
He argued that most parents always try as much as possible to maintain discipline in the conduct of their children while in the house, but after going out with different companies, children start to pick up the negative lifestyle of their friends,
Mr. Adu urged parents to always put the welfare of their children first by providing them with the needed advice and counseling them away from bad company.
He further called on Ghanaians to desist from the continuous call on the military to check the ills in society, adding that the 1992 constitution must be made to function fully and that an autocratic style of leadership can be extreme.
He explained that 30 years of an effective democratic constitution have done better for the country than harm, and the positives of the country’s democracy must be celebrated as the leaders work around amending its negative aspects.
