Akropong (Brong Ahafo) 18 March '99

The Nkoranza District Education Directorate of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has launched a programme to educate the people on the need to guard against expensive funerals. Mr Yaw-Effah Manu, district education officer of the NCCE, warned that frivolous expenditure on funerals only result in wastage. He called on the people to invest in the education of their children, adding "it is unfortunate that some people prefer to spend their money on frivolous ventures rather than educating their children". Mr Manu urged parents to show greater responsibility for their children, warning that the large number of teenage mothers in the district is neither in the interest of neither the district nor the nation at large.