The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in the La Dade-Kotopon Municipality has launched its 2025 Citizenship Week Celebration.
The programme, which was instituted in 2012 and forms one of the flagship initiatives of the Commission, provides a unique platform for accomplished personalities to educate young Ghanaians on civic responsibilities, national identity, and active citizenship.
It also offers mentorship that inspires, guides, and contributes meaningfully to national development.
The celebration, under the theme “Ghana’s Future: The Role of the Ghanaian Child,” acknowledges children not just as beneficiaries of national policies but as active participants in the country’s development.
Speaking at the Creative Ambassadors Montessori School in La to officially launch the week-long celebration, Madam Paulina Mensah, Director for Social Welfare and Community Development at the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly, challenged the students to work collaboratively in shaping a Ghana defined by unity, honesty, and integrity.
She emphasised the need for children to live responsibly, noting that their choices today will influence their future. She also admonished them to uphold truth, resist examination malpractices, and act with integrity in all aspects of life.
Touching on core Ghanaian values, Madam Mensah urged the students to be patriotic by serving and loving Ghana, tolerating the views of others, working together to build peace, following school rules, keeping the environment clean by avoiding littering, and rejecting all forms of academic dishonesty.
“Cheating in exams today undermines leadership tomorrow,” she stated.
For his part, Mr. Emmanuel Mettle, Director of the NCCE in the La Dade-Kotopon Municipality, underscored the need for students to live by Ghanaian values to enable them to become responsible citizens who contribute their quota to national development.
He also expressed his gratitude to Madam Mensah for accepting the invitation to be part of the celebration.
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