By Emmanuel Nyatsikor
Adaklu Kodzobi (V/R), March 20, GNA – Reverend Samuel Amegboe, a retired Pastor of the Assemblies of God Church has stated that the rights of children should not override their character formation as future leaders of the country.
He noted that though children were to be protected from all forms of harm and their rights not trampled upon “we should not forget that as parents we are duty bound to mould them to become responsible adults.”
Rev Amegboe stated this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Adaklu Kodzobi in the Adaklu district in response to the alarming indiscipline among children and the youth in the country.
“The glaring indiscipline being exhibited by our children and youth in our schools and society means we are sitting on a time bomb,” he said
Rev Amegboe intimated that the alternative forms of punishments being espoused by human rights groups were not having the intended effects on the children.
He therefore stated that taking away the traditional corporal punishment especially from schools was not the best.
He said even the Bible exhorted that “if we spare the rod we will spoil the child.”
Rev Amegboe noted that the cultural setting of the African was different from the whites and that adopting everything imposed on us without thinking of its product will be disastrous.
“As a country we should be looking at the product of the system as indiscipline has permeated every fabric of the Ghanaian society including the church.”
Rev Amegboe called on policy makers, child rights groups and all stakeholders to go back to the drawing board to see how best to address the canker of indiscipline that engulfed the country.
GNA
Edited by Maxwell Awumah/George-Ramsey Benamba