By Daniel Agbesi Latsu
Kadjebi (O/R), April 17, GNA – Staff of the Kadjebi District Directorate of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), together with some student Civic Education Club (CEC) members in the district have embarked on an educational tour to Mountain Gemi, Amedzofe Canopy Walk and Ote Falls.
The students, numbering 34, were from Okanta D/A Junior High School (JHS, Anthony Educational Complex JHS, Kadjebi and Kadjebi R. C. JHS.
CEC, a voluntary study group on the 1992 Constitution is a flagship programme of the NCCE.
Ms. Janet Yaa Obido, an Assistant Civic Education Officer of the NCCE, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said the adventure formed part of their CEC activities.
She said the idea of the Club formation in 1996 was conceived as a strategy to reach out to people, especially the youth, with an understanding of the principles and objectives of the 1992 Constitution as the fundamental law of the land.
Ms. Obido stated that the learners needed to visit the sites personally and see things for themselves since they read on those sites from books but never seen them physically as “seeing is believing”.
She advised the students to take the visit as a learning tour, but not a fanfare and shared their experience and information with their peers, parents, and the public as civic education was a shared responsibility.
Mr. Bright Atteh, the Okanta D/A JHS CEC Patron, told GNA that the excursion would make their work in the classroom easier, as the learners had gone to see for themselves things about the sites they learnt in books.
Miss Emmanuella Agbeka, a student from the Anthony Educational Complex, Kadjebi, was appreciative of the tour and pledged to share experience with colleagues who could not make it to the trip.
Mountain Gemi is 800meters above sea level as compared to Mountain Afadza’s 885meters. It is the second highest mountain in Ghana.
It is in a town called Amedzofe in the Ho West District of the Volta Region with the highest human settlement of 2,400ft above sea level.
The Ote Falls, which is 80 meters high, and the Canopy Walk are in the same place and there are 259steps that lead to the canopy walk.
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