Tema, Sept 21, GNA - Mr Paul Victor Obeng, former Presidential Advisor in the PNDC regime on Saturday called on ethnic societies to use their forums to educate the youth on the nation's culture.

Speaking at the 20th anniversary of the "Akan Kroye Kuw" of the Good Shepherd Catholic Church at Tema, he said if measures were not put in place to ensure that the present generation learn the customs and tradition, the nation's rich cultural heritage would be forgotten.

Mr Obeng noted that, "the youth are adulterating the culture which reflects in their way of dressing and accent, to the neglect of ours and it is about time a stop was put to it else the cultural history of the nation would go down the drain and posterity would not forgive us."

He therefore, frowned on parents who communicate with their children in the foreign language and advised that they should rather pay regular visits to their villages to enable the children to get familiar with their relations so that they could trace their roots in future. Mr Augustine Mensah, President of the Association, said the society, which started with 15 members 20 years ago, now has a membership of 200 and he paid tribute to the founding members for sustaining the society.

He called for regular attendance to meetings in order to be abreast with events.

A visit to the Akosombo Dam, seminars and lectures on topical issues such as the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), religion and communal labour formed part of activities that marked the anniversary.