Youth urged to justify their appointment in government

Winneba (C/R), March 30, GNA - Mr Kofi Mintah, the Chairman of the Central Regional Disciplinary Committee of the National Democratic Party, has urged the youth who have been given positions in the Administration of President John Evans Atta Mills to justify the confidence reposed in them.

He stressed that it was important for them to prove that young people were also capable of managing the affairs of the nation. He noted that the ministerial and other appointments so far made testified that the President had the youth and women at heart. "Prove to the people the wisdom in President Mills making his administration a government of the youth and women," he emphasised. Mr Mintah made the call at a dinner organized by the Home Economics Students Association of the University of Education, Winneba at the weekend.

He expressed concern about the rate marriages were ending on the rocks and charged counselling units of establishments and the Home Economics Department to adopt measures to arrest the situation which was becoming a social and economic problem for the nation. "The unfortunate thing about the broken home is that children from the marriages are made scapegoats, with fathers in particular refusing to care for them," he noted. Ms Ophelia Quartey, Head of the Home Economics Department, announced plans to launch an association of Past Students by the middle of the year to forge collaboration and networking and also to project the image of the subject. She said a home coming of all past Students would be held in connection with the launch.

Mrs Evelyn Tetteh Antwi, the out-going President of the Association, on behalf of the students, donated four gas cookers to the Food Department Practice House, while the Level 300 students also donated a deep freezer to the Practice House. Miss Patricia Glago won the beauty pageant organized as a side attraction of the dinner. She pledged to organize family life education programmes to encourage parents to enrol their children in school and for children to stay in school.