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Regional News of Monday, 30 January 2012

Source: GNA

Ban political groupings in tertiary institutions - NCCE

Agona Nsaba (C/R), Jan. 30, GNA - The Agona East Inter-Party Dialogue Committee has been inaugurated with a call on Parliament to ban the formation of political groupings in tertiary educational institutions in the country. Mr Stephen Agyei-Yeboah, Acting Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in Agona East who made the call said student political groupings such as TESCON and TEIN were encouraging indiscipline in Ghanaian tertiary institutions. He said as students whose education was being taken care of by their parents or relatives they should not be allowed to participate in active partisan politics. Mr Agyei-Yeboah said indulging in active politics could affect their studies and t'