The National Commission for Civic Education has said that its education efforts can only be effective if these go hand in hand with law enforcements to ensure that people comply with the directives.
Deputy Chairperson of the NCCE, Kathleen Addy, made it known that while the Commission carries out its mandate to educate people, behavior change is difficult to achieve.
Speaking in an interview with Raymond Nyamador on the Happy Morning Show, she said, “The fact that people know that they have to wear their nose mask does not mean they will do so”.
Proposing a solution to this problem, Kathleen Addy noted, “Education has to go hand in hand with some law enforcement. In a lot of the places, I encourage the local assemblies to join us.
For example at the market, NCCE can do some education but NCCE cannot force the sellers in the market to social distance for instance. It is not our mandate. But if we are there with people from the assembly during the education, they will also be helping us to do the social distancing. It is a more effective way of working. So we already work a lot with the assemblies.
Apart from the vans in Accra, we have deployed some of the adverts on radio stations, some announcements and all of that. But I think that law enforcement has to really come in because the whole idea of law enforcement is to serve as a deterrent and give few examples. I think if we get a few examples, most people will comply”.
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has been embarking on a series of intensive education in the country to ensure that residents strictly adhere to the COVID-19 preventive protocols.
By: Alberta Dorcas N D Armah
