The 62nd Independence Anniversary of Ghana has been used by the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive to unite two feuding second-cycle institutions in the area.
There have been years of lingering animosity between Chemu Senior High School and Tema Technical Institute (Tema Tech) and whenever the two schools clash, the consequences have left several students to nurse injuries.
The latest clash between the two schools was in the ember weeks of 2018, when, like a home and away sports league, each school stormed the home of the other and engaged in vandalism. School authorities could not lay a finger on what has resulted in what has become an annual gory clashes between the two schools which are only about three kilometres apart.
Chief Superintendent Stephen Kwakye, the Community One Police Commander, has tried his best to settle the differences between the two schools and to cap the attempt, Felix Nii Mensah Annang-La, the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, after the 62nd Independence Anniversary march past, invited the two schools to bury their differences or a punitive decision would be taken against them.
He told the students to value the investments their parents and guardians were making to give them a better future, “therefore, your unproductive engagement in fighting will no more be entertained in Tema.”
Mr Annang-La instructed Chief Superintendent Kwakye to relegate “the human face consideration” and punish students from the two schools who would engage in fisticuffs.
Yesterday’s Tema Independence parade saw over 1,200 school children from both basic and senior schools marching to celebrate the birthday of Ghana.
Mrs Margaret Nsiah Asamoah, Tema Education Director, explained that Ghana’s Independence Day should afford all Ghanaians the opportunity to reminisce the struggles of their forebears, appreciate their struggles and prepare themselves for the struggles ahead in jealously protecting the current peace in the country.
She said school children need a peaceful Ghana to study to take over the mantle of leadership when the present leadership are gone.
Turning to school children, Mrs Asamoah advised them to flee from corrupt minds and attitudes that can abruptly end their dreams and aspirations.
“We need parents and society to help in shaping our children. We must continue to drum home the dangers in drug abuse and teenage pregnancy to our young ones to desist from such act,” she advised.
Last but not least, she encouraged school children to take interest in keeping their surroundings clean and politely advise the elderly who do not keep their environment clean to practise good sanitation.
By: Umar Sheriff/awakenewsonline.com