Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) says its attention has been drawn to discussions on media platforms over allegations that the GES is introducing explicit sexual information to children under the guise of Comprehensive Sexual Education.
A statement signed by Head of Public Relations at the GES, Cassandra Twum Ampofo, expressed surprise at the wild speculations and claims.
It said the new Standard Based Curriculum being implemented has nothing to do with LGBT issues, masturbation as well as labelling of explicit body parts.
It said the CSE does not seek to throw out advocacy for sexual abstinence but rather seeks to reinforce it.
The statement notes that UN member states are mandated to roll CSE in accordance with cultural norms and values.
The GES assures the public that no special sessions have been organised or will ever be organised by the Service to train students as advocates for sexual rights, let alone LGBT rights which are culturally, socially, legally, morally and religiously alien to Ghana.
