NPP Government Accused of Denying NCCE Funds

A civic educator has made a passionate appeal to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to empower the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to be able to do its work effectively in the national interest.

Making the call, Mr. Alhassan Imoru, Tamale municipal director of the NCCE, lamented that after two years in power, some top members of the NPP who, while in opposition had threatened to scrap the NCCE, are denying the commission the needed funds and resources to function effectively.

He said the perception being held by these politicians that all the staff of the NCCE were cadres of the Committees for the Defence of the Revolution (CDRs), may be the cause for neglecting the commission which, in the long run, is politically unwise.

Mr. Imoru, who was interacting with newsmen in Tamale, said the NPP as an off-spring of the Progress Party (PP), should have been the first to appreciate that the success of democracy in Ghana would depend on the success of the NCCE in educating the citizenry.

He explained that under the late Dr. K. A. Busia, the erstwhile Centre for Civic Education made laudable attempts to institute civic education in the body politic of the country.

The municipal director therefore called on the government to address, as a matter of urgency, the issue of inadequate funding to the NCCE to enable it perform its constitutional mandate.

He added that it will be in the interest of the government to strengthen the NCCE to enable it provide civic education on a permanent, consistent and structured manner to sensitise citizens, the governed and government for the sustenance and consolidation of constituional democracy.