Declare national day of reading – Kwaku Oppong-Amponsah
Published:
3 months ago
Source:
Ghanaian Times
The Chief Executive Officer of Adwinsa Publication, Mr Kwaku Oppong-Amponsah, has called for a national day of reading, to encourage and educate children on the significance of reading books. He said key stakeholders such as the President, Vice President, Speaker of Parliament, Chief Justice, among others, should visit schools to read their favourite books to children on that day. Speaking at the Adwinsa Children Show 2024 on Saturday in Accra, themed "Poisoning our water, poisoning our future," Mr Oppong-Amponsah said that reading gives children moral lessons, good grammar, and attitude to sit and pass exams. He said the use of phones and gadgets was gradually fading out of the use of reading physical books, and advise parent to allow children read on these devices when the need arise. He said the publishing industry had found ways of putting these books on websites for children to read them on their phones, which most children had also fail to read them online.