By Gideon Harry Amankwah
Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education, NCCE, Josephine Nkrumah, has attributed the Commission’s inability to be visible in all communities across the country, partly due to the lack of personnel.
This, she noted, has limited the Commission’s operations in the regions and districts. Madam Nkrumah made this known at the first in a series of capacity building workshops in Kumasi, organized by the NCCE to train newly recruited staff.
Five batches comprising 50 recruited staff in each batch will undergo training this month.
The National Commission for Civic Education, NCCE, works to promote and sustain democracy, and inculcate in the Ghanaian citizenry, the awareness of their rights and obligations. Its functions include to educate and encourage the public to defend the National Constitution at all times against all forms of abuse and violation.
The Commission has 16 Regional Offices and 263 District offices across the country.
However, the NCCE’s inability to be visible in all communities across the country has been attributed to the lack of personnel. It is in this regard that a series of capacity building workshops are being organized by the NCCE to train newly recruited staff on the work they will be assigned to in the Commission.
Speaking at the first in a series of capacity building workshops in Kumasi for recruited staff in the Ashanti and Bono regions, Chairperson of the NCCE, Josephine Nkrumah said with the increase of personnel at the Commission, the presence of the NCCE will be more visible in all parts of the country.
The newly recruited staff will be taken through the Civic Education Manual, the 1992 Constitution, Financial Reporting, Research and Gender Mainstreaming in the NCCE’s work among others.