The General Superintendent of Assemblies of God Ghana, Rev. Prof. Paul Frimpong Manso, says government must surrender the moral training and upbringing management of schools in the country to churches.

According to him, there has been a spike in immorality in schools and among students as a result of government’s failure to properly manage moral upbringing in schools.

He said the situation used to be different years back when various schools across the country were under the management of churches.

Prof. Frimpong Manso made the call when he was addressing a press conference organised by the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) at the National Headquarters of Assemblies of God Ghana in Accra, on Thursday.

He suggested that if government is not ready to relinquish total management of the schools to the churches, it must consider collaborating with them by handing off the moral and upbringing aspect to them.

“For several years we have pushed and pushed that they should give back the schools for us to train them, it has not happened. May I suggest that if government will not give us the schools then there should be partnership. They take the hardware and we take the software; they can build for us, they can pay the salaries, they can build the infrastructure: of course we will help. But the moral training and upbringing of the children should be given to the churches, to control and have authority. So that we will bring out good and matured people in society.”

He justified that most of the current top-notch schools across the country are ones that were founded by churches on Christian moral principles.

“Most of the schools in Ghana especially the good schools, top-notch schools in Ghana were started by the churches. They were governed by Christian morality and Christian leadership. Several years ago they were taken over by government and what we have seen is that government hasn’t got the strength or the willpower or the moral authority to handle this.”

His call is part of others being made by the GPCC on government to abandon its plans to implement a Comprehensive Sexuality Education subject for school children in Ghana. The subject according to the Council is an attempt by foreign organisations to push an LGBTQ and a sexual immorality agenda in the country through the education system.