The Adansi Queen-mothers Association has initiated a sensitization programme in senior high schools aimed at encouraging students to stay focused on their studies and avoid bad habits.

The programme would take the queen mothers, led by the Adansihemaa, Nana Kwantwiwaa Apoma II, to seven public senior high schools in the three districts forming the Adansi State.

The schools are Obuasi Christ the King Catholic, Obuasi Senior High Technical, Akrokerri Asare Bediako, New Edubiase, Bodwesango, Fomena T.I Ahmadiyya and Dompoase Senior High Schools.

Some of the bad habits the queen mothers are preaching against are indecent dressing, drug abuse, disrespect for authority, occultism, homosexuality and premature sex.

Addressing students of the Asare Bediako Senior High School at Akrokerri as part of the programme, Nana Kwantwiwaa Apoma emphasized the need for the students to respect their parents and teachers and avoid attitudes that would not make them to develop into responsible adults.

She referred to a number of students’ practices that are not in conformity with social norms and warned them to stay away from them.

“You are in the school to study and nothing else, so let your books serve as your handbags,” she said, adding “wherever you are your books should be with you.”

Nana Kwantwiwaa Apoma condemned indecent dressing and urged the female students to avoid exposing their bodies for public view and not to allow themselves to be baited with milk, sugar and sardines.

She warned the students who were under 18 not to go and register for the December Elections and said: “it is against the electoral laws of the land”.

The Board Chairman of the school, Mr. M. Kow Frieku, commended the headmaster and staff for their efforts at enhancing teaching and learning in the school.

Mr. C. W. Nuakoh, the headmaster, appealed to the queen mothers to use their influence to facilitate the provision of a bus to the school by the Government. “Asare Bediako Senior High is the only school in the Adansi State that has no school bus,” he said.

Earlier at the Christ the King Catholic Senior High School, the Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, Mr. Johnny Owusu-Boadi, appealed to the queen mothers to help check the encroachment on the school lands, especially at Christ the King SHS.

Mr. Ahmed Owusu-Ansah, the headmaster, appealed to the queen mothers to set up an education fund to support the schooling of children in the Adansi communities.