Don't withdraw children from schools to farm

Damanko (V/R), Aug 4, GNA- Mr Frank Donkor Wuladanye, Cape Coast University Branch President of the Kokomba/Basari Students Union (KOBASU) has criticized the attitude among farmers to engage their children on the farm instead of sending them to school. He said even if those children would take to farming when they grow they need to go to school to acquire the skills that could make them set up and manage their farms as businesses.

Mr Wuladanye who was addressing a "Go To School Campaign" organized by KOBASU at Damanko in the Nkwanta District said it was understandable for farmers to get their children to help them in their farm, but inexcusable for children of school going age to desert school permanently to engage in farming.

He blamed forced marriages, with many young girls as victims, for the poor enrolment of girls in schools in the area. Mr Augustine Kidisil, the newly elected national secretary of the union expressed his worry over the way widows were dispossessed of properties acquired with their late husbands and advised married men to prepare wills covering their wives and children to forestall any maltreatments.

A member of the union, Mr Anthony Bilandem Bililee, also expressed his concern about the craze for expensive funerals in the area, referring to a recent one where 27 cows were slaughtered.