Report by: Japhet Festus Gbede
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has indicated that going into the 2024 general elections, youth, tolerance, and canker of monetization in the country body politics would be their focus.
The chairperson, Ms Kathleen Addy, made this statement on Thursday, February 15, 2024, when she paid a cutesy call to the Oti Regional Command of the Ghana Police Service.
According to the chairperson, the youth are the most vulnerable stressing that, they are often the main recruits for violence and extremism.
Ms Addy also pointed out that tolerance is a key ingredient in the nation democratic sphere that, national cohesion needs to be propagated.
To her, “Despite our religious, ethnic, and social differences, tolerance on the part of Ghanaians has been the binding factor, and going into the 2024 general elections, it is important for us to give attention to it for its fruits to continue to benefit us”.
Again, the NCCE Chairperson said that the current level of monetization in Ghana’s body politics is a dangerous path we are threading as a people.
According to her, it is a phenomenon that retards development. ” if you take GH¢1500 or GH¢3000 to vote for a representative, how do you still demand developmental projects and accountability from the same person who paid you to get elected?” She asked.
The National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) she would not limit its work in 2024 to the above-mentioned, but would pay much attention to them because of their potential of either consolidating or scattering our democratic gains chalked in the last 31 years.
The Chairperson of the NCCE is in the Oti Region as part of her working visit to monitor the Prevention, Containing Violent Extremism (PCVE) project, which is ongoing.
The project, under the sponsorship of the European Union, is aimed at creating awareness of the activities of violent extremists and the expected response of citizens in the event of an attack.
Source: www.thenewindependentonline.com
