Child Protection Campaign Intensified In Kpone-Katamanso

Kpone, Sept. 20, GNA - The Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has intensified its campaign on child protection in the area.

Mr Seth Gyamfi, the Municipal Senior Civic Education Officer (SCEO), in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said civic educators will visit homes and educate parents on their civic responsibilities and the need to protect and provide for their children.

Mr Gyamfi said most parents in the area did not take keen interest in the day to day activities of their children as they concentrated more on their businesses at the disadvantage of the children.

He indicated that some parents had even turned their children into labourers while others used them for hawking instead of sending them to school.

He disclosed that child labour, child abuse, teenage pregnancy and drug abuse among others, were gaining grounds in the Municipality, a situation he described as very worrying.

The SCEO added that every parent was required by the 1992 Constitution of Ghana to protect their children and to educate them as a matter of right.

Mr Gyamfi appealed to government and faith based organizations to assist the NCCE to educate all parents on child rights and protection in the various communities in the Municipality as failure to do so would result in dire consequences to society in future.