Live update: GIMPA endorses Akufo-Addo beyond aid agenda at NCCE 2018 Civic Challenge

Two schools are up for the ultimate prize in the 2018 National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE)'s Civic Challenge currently ongoing at the University of Ghana Law Faculty Auditorium.

Out of 16 schools that took part in the rather fierce debate competition, only two schools were able to demonstrate a satisfactory understanding of the 1992 Constitution. 

The University of Education Winneba (UEW), initially trailing in the competition, found its feet and made it to the final. The school is up against the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).

The motion reads: "60 years after independence, does Ghana need foreign aid for its development?" GIMPA is against donor handouts, while UEW wants Ghana to continue to receive foreign aid.

Myjoyonline.com is at the venue and will update you on happenings.

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Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid has charged students to take extra-curricular activities seriously since they constitute about 70 percent of the things that will help them in life.

While advising them to prioritise classroom lessons, the former lecturer wants students to attend debate competitions and seminars on campus.

GIMPA supports president Akufo-Addo's beyond aid agenda:

Citing Proverb 22:7 GIMPA supports the government’s agenda to wean the country off foreign aid, proffering radical solutions.

1.The terms and conditions affect Ghana’s development.

2.Foreign aid was behind the overthrow of Dr K.A Busia’s government

3.Over-dependency on donor handouts

4.Ghana needs to be the master of its ship

5.Foreign aid postpones Ghana’s problem because it provides short-term solution

UEW against president Akufo-Addo's beyond aid agenda:

1.Ghanaians could have died out of hunger had it not been IMF structural adjustment programme (SAP) in 1983.

2.No country is an island dependent on itself. No one imagined America going to China for loans. Everything is possible.

3.The economies of European giants such as Britain, France and Germany among others were resuscitated through the US Marshal Plan.

4.Ghana’s democracy, stability and peace should be credited to foreign aid.

 

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