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Regional News of Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Source: GNA

Focus on the poor - Apostolic Nuncio

The Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana, Most Reverend Leon Kalenga, has urged African leaders to care for their people and focus on the poor.

He noted with concern that most African leaders were not serving their “brothers and sisters” as they should, adding that what people see in recent times was corruption by their leaders.

Most Rev. Kalenga was addressing a durbar organized at the Pope John Senior High School and Minor Seminary in Koforidua to welcome him to the school.

He said many Africans were being impoverished as a result of greed on the part of their leaders.

Most Rev. Kalenga said leaders who were supposed to go to the people to know their problems were only seen when it was time for election and needed votes from the same people they were not treating fairly.

He described the performance of most African leaders as disappointing, who were not doing enough to raise the living standards of their people.

Most Rev. Kalenga also noted with concern that civic education was not being taught any more in schools thereby making Africans to forget their rich culture heritage.

The Apostolic Nuncio appealed to African leaders to live up to their obligations and do what was expected of them.

He used the platform to call for a peaceful poll in December adding that, Ghana should not go the way of some African nations where fighting and killings were the “language they understand”.

He advised the students to be discipline since it was only through that they would be able to build a brighter future for themselves.

“You should also be humble at all times, like the St John who was intelligent and humble”.

Mr. Isaac Larweh Odenteh, Headmaster of the school, said students who passed through the school had known no failures in life.

He said the school had a current student population of 1,600 and that the Catholic Church and the government had assisted the school tremendously by the provision of the needed infrastructure, vehicles and other office equipment.**