The Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dayi Constituency, Mr Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has described the new health education manual which forms part of the new curriculum for basic schools in the country as “satanic” and called on Ghanaians to rise up against it.

The Ministry of Education and Ghana Education Service (GES) introduced a new curriculum for basic schools effective 2019-2020 academic year. As part of the curriculum, basic school students are to be taught sex education.

As part of the curricula, pupils are expected to be introduced to sexual materials.

Mr Dafeamekpor, in a statement on Monday, 30 September 2019, stated that: “There is a sinister monster on the prowl in our nation and it is called the NPP government. This government has approved, through the PPAG and the Ghana Education Service, what it calls ‘comprehensive’ sexual education manual to be introduced in our schools in a couple of days. The long and short is that my 7-year-old daughter is to be taught by her teachers how to have sex and derive pleasures from it because it is her human rights including anal sex.”

According to the MP, he finds “this culturally offensive, grossly unchristian and inappropriate.”

He also indicated that above all, “It's a first-degree felony to engage in a sexual act with a child below the age of 16 years with or without her consent. It's called defilement pursuant to the Criminal and other Offences Act, 1960, Act 29.”

The MP also noted that if President Nana Akufo-Addo “has forgotten his law,” he wishes to remind him and further “remind the PPAG that it would be in their interest to return all monies they have collected from whichever organisation to desist from this forthwith.”

He added: “The other sickening aspect is also to encourage our children to pursue the right of artificially amending their sexuality: they can become transgenders.”

The South Dayi MP also called on Ghanaians to “rise up against this satanic education being labelled euphemistically as health education.”