By Eric Amoh, GNA
Busunya (BE), Dec 5, GNA – The Chief and people of Busunya in the Nkoranza North District of the Bono East Region have held a community durbar to outline prudent measures to guide and protect young people and ensure they take their studies seriously.
The measures are to further ensure that pupils in the community put up good behaviour and grow to become courteous adults.
The rules, formulated into by-laws and signed by members of the Education Committee of Busunya include arresting and placing a ghc200 fine on any young person below 18 caught loitering around the town after 2100hours, ban on spinners at funeral after 1800hours, and minimal or acceptable noise level from bar operators.
Chairman of the Busunya By-laws Committee, Mr Barnabas Adomako, who addressed the durbar said, “The aim for writing the by-laws was to control pupils’ behaviour and movement during and after school”.
He said the decision was taken following the poor performance of pupils at the end of term exams and poor results from the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
The Committee Chairman indicated that its objective was to improve on internal and external examinations by enhancing teaching and learning in schools and to improve on education and wellbeing of pupils in the community.
Other proposed rules are, summoning to the Chief palace, men who would impregnate girls aged below 18, and charge them to compensate mother, pay responsibility allowance, or provide childcare to child and mother for a number of years.
He noted that these by-laws were meant to check the rising rate of poor academic performance, indiscipline, and increasing cases of single mothers in Busunyala and its environs.
The durbar was attended by residents, students, their teachers, the clergy, security personnel, the public and civil servants.
Mr Adomako explained that parents who attack, ruin insults, or confront teachers in any school, pupils who invoke curses on their fellow pupils, owners of drinking bars, pups, cinemas, bet centres who admit children below 18 and headteachers who accept transfer of pupils without consulting the Headteacher of the school the pupil seeking the transfer from to understand the purpose of transfer, would be held culpable for the breaking by-laws.
He said parents of a pupil who would invoke curses on a fellow pupil would be surcharged to pay all costs involved in overturning the curse, while the culprit pupil punished through flogging.
The Busunya Educational Committee comprised of selected areas of education including Parent Teacher Association (PTA), School Management Committee (SMC), a Headteacher, while the Chief of Busunya, the Abusuapenin from the Busunya Traditional Council, the Busunya Community Association chairman, represented the traditional council and elders.
Assembly members for the New Town Electoral Area, and the Kwaagya Electoral Area are members of the Committee were also present.
Mr Adomako urged parents to assist the committee to succeed by ensuring that their wards studied after school, and are provided basic learning needs, as well as avoid assigning the children with tedious work and ensuring that they slept on time to avoid sleeping in class during learning sessions.
The Chairman warned that any resident who would disregard any of the by-laws would be punished per the guiding rules assigned to each of the by-laws.
The proposed by-laws were accepted by the community as a working document.
GNA
Edited by Linda Asante Agyei