President of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC), Rev. Prof. Paul Frimpong-Manso, has said that Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh must be given the benefit of the doubt for saying that the CSE has not been approved for schools in the country.
According to him, they[GPCC] will hold the minister responsible should he go contrary to what he said when he met journalist on Tuesday in Accra to address the issues.
“If everything the Minister said is true, then I think the matter should be put to rest but if they are yet to do something about it, it should be canceled, abolish and expunge immediately because this is satanic,” he told Nyansa Boakwa on Happy FM’s Nsempii.
Opoku Prempeh at a press conference on Tuesday said that “The Ministry would like to state categorically that…the curriculum framework for KG-P6 that has been approved by Cabinet from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment [NaCCA] for use in the development of school curricula and published on NaCCA website does not include anything on Comprehensive Sexuality Education.”
This according to Prof. Frimpong-Manso, “We will hold him responsible if he goes contrary to what he has said. For now, lets us believe him but we must be vigilant.”
Ghana and the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched the CSE programme this year in a bid to empower adolescents and young people to deepen their scope of existing activities to attain a Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).
Known as the “Our right, Our lives, Our Future (O³), CSE is supported by the governments of Sweden and Ireland.
It is being implemented in Ghana, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe for effective delivery of quality comprehensive sexuality programmes.
By: Joseph Nii Ankrah
