Parents warned against letting under-aged children register as voters

Gomoa Odina (C/R), March 14, GNA - Mr Theophilous Adu-Mensah, the Gomoa West District Chief Executive, has warned parents against allowing their under age children to take part in the upcoming biometric voters registration exercise.

He said parents owed it a duty to ensure that their minor children do not register in the exercise in order to have credible election.

Mr Adu-Mensah said this in a speech read for him at the Speech and Prize Giving Day of Methodist Primary and Junior High School at Gomoa Odina-Oguaa.

He said the law would deal drastically with people who would be caught to have indulged in any malpractice.

He expressed concern about the poor Basic Education Certificate Examination results, school dropouts, teenage pregnancy, teachers' absenteeism and others and said these affected education negatively.

He said the District Assembly and the government are doing their best to make education accessible to all and appealed to parents and guardians to provide basic needs for their children.

Mr Francis Arthur, MP for Gomoa West, said plans had been completed with GETFund to construct additional block of three classrooms.

He said the government had increased school feeding programme from five to 25 to increase school enrolment in the district and appealed to parents to send their children to school.

The Rev Collins Owusu Asamoah, the Headmaster, appealed to the District Assembly and the MP to provide the school with computers because the only one being used by 600 students and pupils had broken down.

GNA