The Obuasi Municipal office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) on Wednesday, 26th May 2021 marked this year’s Citizenship Week with series of Sensitisation programmes at selected schools in the Obuasi Municipality. The week-long celebration is expected to end on Wednesday, 2nd June 2021.
Under the theme " we are one, Ghana first", the 2021 celebration seeks to inculcate unto the Ghanaian a sense of patriotism, national unity, cohesion, loyalty to the state and hard work as a shared positive value that will engender good character development among the people.
Speaking with the media after a session with pupils at the Obuasi Complex school, the Municipal Director of NCCE Sylvester Yaw Asamoah outlined the rationale behind this year’s celebration. He said it is intended to instil unto the youth a sense of patriotism, unity and national cohesion as enshrined in Article 35(5) of the 1992 constitution. "The youth must see the Nation as paramount to any other considerations", he added.