The
chairman of the National Commission for Civic Education NCCE Ms. Josephine Nkrumah
has paid a two day working visit to the Upper East Region.
She was accompanied
by the Deputy Chairman in charge of operation Samuel Asare Nkoamoah, together
with the internal European Union EU team and some staff of the NCCE.
Her visits
which will cover the three northern regions forms part of an internal
evaluation to run off the 2012 EU grant to the commission and to pave way for
external evaluation by the EU team from Belgium.
The EU has been supporting the NCCE in the
discharge of her civic responsibility to the citizens of Ghana.
In an interview
with GBConline, she indicated that the 2012 grant was shared to all the
Regional and District offices of the NCCE throughout the country, to carry out
civic education as part of their core mandate.
Ms. Josephine stated that under
the 2012 grant, the Commission was able to organized both the 2016 Presidential
and Parliamentary debate, revived the inter-party dialogue committee, carry out
extensive education on district level elections in collaboration with the
Electoral Commission EC together with
other civil society organization and capacity building of staff of the
Commission, engage activist of the various political party flash points areas and
educate them on the use of intemperate language, violence and tempered
discussions to tolerance and peace building.
Ms. Josephine said the evaluation
is to help identified the challenges encountered in carrying out the
commission’s activities under the grant and to make amends in subsequent ones.
On a courtesy call of the Upper East Regional
Minister Mr. Rockson Ayine Bukari, the chairman of the Commission lauded the
Minister’s active role in the activities of NCCE and stressed that the non
partisan nature of the commission to be upheld as such.
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by Emmanuel Akayeti GBC’S Correspondent
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