Cadet corps urged to be disciplined

Ms Adriana Kandilige, the Eastern Regional Director of Education, has appealed to members of Cadet Corps and youth organizations to combine discipline with academic excellence for a successful future career.

Ms Adriana Kandilige said this in a speech read on her behalf at the Eastern Regional inter schools cadet corps drill competition in Koforidua.

Ms Kandilige urged the cadets to be serious with their academic work since “that is the only way you can reach greater heights”.

Ms Helen Adwoa Ntoso, the Eastern Regional Minister, was full of praise for the founding fathers of the Cadet Corps and appealed to students to be disciplined, truthful and honest in all their dealings.

She said they should conduct themselves well in school since bad behaviour such as taking of hard drugs and other deviant character could cause problems for them in future.

Ms Ntoso told the students to cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit by thinking out of the normal routine and have confidence in themselves if they want to be successful.

The Eastern Regional Coordinator of the Cadet Corps, Mr Gideon Obeng, told the GNA in an interview that the Ghana Cadet Corps was first established in 1954 at the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) in Takoradi with a handful of students.

He said the Corps had membership school strength of 223 and a numerical strength of 13,380 nationwide.

Mr Obeng said the main aim of the corps was to sustain a vibrant and effective cadetting in the ever changing society to produce disciplined young persons and to promote among young people a practical interest in the various security institutions.

Akyem Oda Senior High School (SHS) came first in the competition followed by Koforidua Senior High Technical and Pope John SHS in second and third positions respectively.

The three schools will represent the region in a national competition to be held at Tesano in Accra on February 15 next year.