Parliament has been urged to enact, as a matter of national importance, a law that will revive and maintain the country's cultural practice that empowers elderly persons in the society to correct children, either than their own, when caught misbehaving in public places.
It will protect responsible elderly citizens who might take the risk to effect such corrective measures
to instill a high sense of discipline in the offending children from hauling unnecessary insults from the biological parents of the affected children.
Mr James Cudjoe Agornyrah, National Chairman of the Mafi-Dedukope Area Youth Association (MADAYA) made the call at a ceremony at which the association presented two personal computers and their accessories worth about 1,000 Ghana cedis to the authorities of Mafi-Dedukope District Assembly Primary and Junior Secondary Schools. Mr Agornyrah suggested to the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to initiate moves to promulgate bye-laws that would make parents truly their brother's keeper in terms of administering disciplinary measures to correct bad children in their communities without fear or favour.
He said that research haD proved that the practice played a key role in laying a solid foundation for the nation in the ancient time devoid of all forms of acts of indiscipline.
Mr Agornyrah was optimistic that, if this laudable cultural heritage bequeathed us by our forefathers is effectively revived and maintain, it will augment government efforts at reshaping the nation socially, economically, spiritually, and culturally for the benefit of present and future generations.
He advised parents in the area to make sure that
all their children of school-going age were enrolled to enable them to benefit from the various interventions government had initiated to improve basic education in the country.
Mr Agornyrah assured management committees of Mafi-Dedukope Primary and Junior Secondary Schools of the association's continued support and preparedness to initiate projects that would enhance further educational development of the area.
He said the essence of forming the association was to principally seek the general well-being of the people in the area, irrespective of their ethnic, religious and political leanings and hoped the chiefs, opinion leaders, and assembly members in and around Mafi-Dedukope would rally firmly behind the association to enable it to live up to its avowed socio-economic responsibilities.
Mr G.K. Gadzo, an executive member of the two institutions management committees who received the computers on behalf of the two schools, expressed his appreciation to members of the association and promised to put them to good use to promote basic education in the area.
He said the schools lack furniture, teachers' bungalow, teaching staff and sports kits, adding that, they are the major challenges confronting the two schools.
GNA