Editorial
Groom the youth to live responsible lives
The youth of today constitute an important asset in the sense that they are seen as the leaders of tomorrow who will take charge of affairs of the country to lift it to greater heights.
For this reason, they (the youth) must be groomed well and encouraged to live responsible lives.
Unfortunately, many of them live irresponsible lives as a result of indiscipline coupled with other factors.
Some youth have become indisciplined partly because of bad examples of their parents. These parents misbehave in society in the full glare of young people, so the youth easily become influenced in that way.
In addition to that, some of the young people also fall into bad company or bad peer groups. Such bad peer groups influence them to the point that they become disrespectful in society.
Irresponsible parenthood is another factor that influences many young people in society to become indisciplined. These parents neglect their children and do not spend quality time with them to change their lifestyles from negative to positive.
The issue of foreign films is also a factor that influences them negatively. This together with exposure to social media ends up changing their behaviour from good to bad.
As a result of all these, many young people of today have become indisciplined and do not respect the elders in society. Many of them take to hard drugs which worsen their conditions. Others also, that is the males among them, throw caution to the wind and flirt with their female counterparts to make them pregnant and perpetually rendering them dependent on society.
Furthermore, some of the youth resort to armed robbery to terrorise communities and make life difficult for the people.
To reverse this situation, good parental care is needed for all children through their teenage period and beyond, so that they can grow up to become responsible citizens.
Society must also use all means to influence young people of today to obey the laws of the country when they are in school, so that irresponsible behaviour such as the attacks on teachers and destraction of school property can stop.
School rules must be obeyed so that the young students will grow up to become responsible members of society. This is how the young ones can be influenced to turn away from acts of indiscipline to become responsible leaders for society.
It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these young people are advised from time to time to instill discipline in them.
The youth themselves must know that without discipline, they cannot make it in life and this is why we must keep to positive social values and do away with any forms of indiscipline in society.
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Dear Editor,
I wish to use this esteemed platform to urge the traditional councils of Osu and La to call for independent investigation into the recent demolition exercise at Kaajaano.
The exercise rendered hundreds homeless.
Information about the reason for the demolition has been scanty with those desiring to know feeding heavily on social media posts.
One particular name –Jato, has been associated with it but under whose instruction the exercise was carried is also not known.
Sadly, instead of getting to know who ordered the demolition and for what reasons, traditional authorities of Osu and La have been embroiled in a tug-of-war over ownership of the said land.
This is premature. At this moment, they should call for investigation into the exercise to know the people behind it.
When that is done, then discussions about the owners of the site can begin. That would end the posture of the two neighbouring town which has the potential to turn into something else.
Ataa Osa Mensah,
Osu
Dear Editor,
I wish to use your respected platform to draw the attention of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to the behaviour of traders and some drivers about the use of lower denomination coins, specifically the 20 and 10 pesewas.
About two weeks ago, I read in your sister newspaper, The Ghanaian Times about this problem and the caution that followed from the BoG and some economic analysts.
The warning they gave was that the continuous rejection of the notes could create pricing problems which can eventually affect inflation.
I thought that would put to bed that practice or refusal to accept the coins when given out as change or use to pay for particular service.
Unfortunately, the problem still persist among traders, drivers, customers and passengers alike. Only last week, there was as altercation in the Accra Central area where a woman refused to accept five 20 pesewas note totaling one cedi.
As the argument continued, the trader decided not to sell to the customer again after by-standers explained to her that it was still a legal tender and those that refused it could become offenders.
This is an issue the BoG and other regulatory agencies must go and explain to the people and let them know that it is unlawful not to accept a currency that is still in use.
It nothing was done, it could create a much more serious problems.
Mary Osei Badu,
Swedru
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