The Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh (NAPO), accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of attempting to introduce content related to homosexuality into the basic school curriculum during their time in office.

Speaking to NPP supporters in a viral video from the party’s ‘Bantama Big Walk 2024’, NAPO specifically implicated Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the former Deputy Minister in charge of Tertiary Education, who led the effort to draft this curriculum.

According to NAPO, during his review of the handing-over notes from the previous Education Minister, he discovered that a new curriculum had been proposed to replace the old one, which allegedly included lessons on same-gender sexual activities for schoolchildren.

"The person who led this project was Okudzeto Ablakwa. They taught schoolchildren how people of the same sex should kiss, how men should kiss other men, and how women should kiss other women.

"They even went as far as teaching how a mother could engage in sexual activities with her daughter. These things happened right here in Ghana," NAPO alleged.

Video clips of NAPO, when he was the Minister for Education, bragging about the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government’s intention to introduce "sexuality education" in Ghana’s educational curriculum at a UNESCO event are now popping up.

In the said video clip, NAPO pointed out the importance of "sexuality education" to Ghana’s development.

He added that "sexuality education" would be included in the country’s educational curriculum from kindergarten to Senior High School.

“Quality education has become a very important matter, particularly for the youth in our societies. Indeed, the changing societal context characterized by the free flow of information, media pluralism, and social media has dissected the need for education systems to provide accurate information on sexual education.

“We in Ghana have a guideline that I've shared with you that we see it is imperative if this nation should develop, that sexuality education should be part of the curricula that we would launch this year in September, all the way from kindergarten to Senior High School,” he said.

Watch his remarks in the videos below:



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