Public Agenda (Accra)
Kwesi Yirenkyi Boateng
25 August 2008
Women Leaders in the Greater Accra Region are the latest to join the campaign train for a peaceful election in the country.
The urgent call for peace by the women leaders was made last Thursday, at a forum organised for them by the Greater Accra Regional Office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in Accra.
Addressing participants at the forum, the Greater Accra Regional Director of NCCE, Mrs. Doris Otiwa Archampong said it was time for women to do all that was necessary to ensure peace in the country.
While urging women to talk to their husbands and children to conduct themselves properly during the period of election, the Regional Director of the Commission, Mrs. Archampong asked women to gird their lions and ensure that the upcoming elections was violent free and peaceful.
Mrs. Archampong, challenged women who she described as "mothers of human generation" to work for a peaceful nation, since women and children, are the worse affected in conflict situations, with its attendant hardships of rape, torture, hunger, and diseases.
The Regional Director who highlighted the importance elections play in every democracy, noted political tolerance, fairness, transparency, and , vigilance, and the will by all citizens to allow the principle of rule of law to rein, as key ingredient that they are going to work with.
Touching on the constitutional right for free expressions, Mrs. Archampong, reminded politicians to be responsible and circumspect with their utterances and statements that could spark violence.
In order to maintain high professional standards and engender the peace in the country, some participants at the forum suggested that, media personnel be given periodic on-the- -job training to sharpen their skills.
Among participants at the forum were the Mukasahemaa of Akuapem Traditional Area, Nana Afuadu Kwadyan II and the President of the Ashanti Queen Mothers Association in Accra, Nana Boatema Afrakuma II. Representatives and leaders of Christian Mothers Association, Health, and Prison Women Associations, as well as other women association in the region were represented.
Mr. Fred Agbobli, the Assistant Regional Civic Education Officer of NCCE, said similar fora would be organised throughout the eight districts of the region.
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