Ayorkor Botchway rallies students to fight ethnocentrism

Accra, March 29, GNA-The Member of Parliament for Weija, Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, has advised Ghanaian students to join the fight against the politics of hatred and ethnocentrism She said Ghanaians should concentrate on their nationality rather than ethnicity.

Madam Botchway gave the advised at the launch of Student Representative Council (SRC) Bus project and week celebration of Jayee University College (JUC) in Accra under the theme:"promoting peace and unity among Ghanaian students toward national development". She appealed to students to sensitize people who may be over zealous for power on the need to help preserve peace in the country. Launching the bus project, the Rector of Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), Mr. David Newton, expressed the need to integrate peace building related subjects in the educational curriculum in Ghana.

He said there is the need for a well instituted peace training from basic level.

Mr. Newton expressed worry about the high cost of education in Ghana and appealed to the government and civil society to provide scholarship opportunities to students. This, he said, would motivate students to study hard as well as further their education to enable them contribute their quota to national development. He noted that it would also curb indiscipline and the criminality among the youth in society.

He advised parents to invest in their wards' education and charged student bodies invest in economic ventures to help employ more youth to curb poverty in the society. Miss Louisa Atta Agyemang, President of JUC SRC, said student activities on campus had suffered as a result of lack of a bus to convey students to town. She appealed to the government and corporate bodies to help the school purchase the bus.