NCCE Chair Calls on Otumfuo Osei Tutu II at Manhyia Palace

The Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education, Ms.

Kathleen Addy has paid a courtesy on His Royal Majesty, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II at Manhyia, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.

Addy first congratulated Otumfuo Osei Tutu II on his Silver Jubilee and informed him about the Commission’s presence in the Ashanti Region to launch this year’s Annual Constitution Week celebrations.

He went ahead to state that Civic Education is important because it teaches citizens about the laws of Ghana and whips up patriotism among the people of Ghana.

He recounted the days of Prime Minister Busia in 1968 when he championed civic education as a tool to improve national development.Otumfuo bemoaned the growing indiscipline and lack of patriotic values among citizens and called for the reintroduction of Civic Education as a subject in schools.

According to him, the lack of civic education as a subject in schools is affecting national development and the work of the National Commission for Civic Education.

‘Speak to the Ghana Education Service or the Education Ministry to bring back civics in our schools,’ he adviced.Otumfou Osei Tutu II later charged the NCCE to prioritise seeking corporate funding if the Commission’s mandate supports that move.