Minister calls for more cadet corps in schools to facilitate discipline

Goaso (B/A) July 17, GNA - Mr Eric Opoku, Deputy Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, on Thursday stressed the need for the security agencies to establish cadet corps in a number of schools to promote discipline.

He said discipline is pre-requisite for success in every human endeavour, adding: "No individual, organisation or society had ever chalked substantive achievements in whatever field without strict adherence to the principles of discipline."

Mr Opoku made the remarks at the passing out ceremony of a 56- member cadet corps of Ahafoman Senior High and Technical School at Goaso in Asunafo North Municipality.

The Deputy Regional Minister admonished crusaders of discipline to join hands in raising the level of discipline from its "current lowest ebb to the highest pinnacle", in order to hasten the pace of development.

Mr Opoku emphasised that education is very essential in building democratic society and creating a foundation for sustained economic growth.

He said: "It is the human resources of Ghana and not the natural or physical resources that will determine the character and pace of national development."

Mr Opoku said it was in this light that government had not relented in the provision of standard educational facilities for the youth to promote the appropriate and relevant academic pursuit at the basic, secondary, vocational and tertiary levels to prepare them for future responsibilities.

He said various classroom blocks, dormitories and other expansion works are being undertaken to take care of the acute shortage of educational infrastructure created as a result of the unplanned four- year Senior High School programme.

"We may be paying lip service to quality education if these interventions are not fully implemented with enhanced condition of service for teachers who provide the anvil upon which quality education is anchored," he added.

Mr Opoku said it is against this backdrop that government had introduced various motivational packages for teachers in the country.

He said the greatest asset of every development-inclined nation is the youth and urged them to desist from indulging in drugs especially narcotics, sexual promiscuity, armed robbery and cyber crime.

Mr Yaw Adu-Gyamfi, Headmaster, said the school, which was established in 1974 with 27 students, can now boast of 830 students.

He mentioned inadequate classroom blocks and students dormitory as the main challenges confronting the school.