The Executive Director of the Salt and Light Ministries, Rev. Joyce Rosalind Aryee says the menace of corruption, greed, and nepotism in Ghana was due to lack of discipline.
According to her, the absence of discipline in the national life of Ghanaians was why corruption, nepotism and greed have developed deep roots in the public life.
"Indiscipline is the reason for bribery, corruption, nepotism, greed, laziness and mediocrity. This must stop," she said.
Rev. Aryee expressed the opinion at the 78th Speech and Prize Giving Day of the Odogornno Senior High School in Accra on Saturday.
The school celebrated the occasion on the theme: "Discipline, the key to academic excellence."
Rev Aryee was of the view that "Disciplined leadership at the national, local, traditional, religious, educational (administrative and students) is what is required for a country like Ghana to break free from our backwardness."
She said discipline is not only needed in the academic field and that it was a prerequisite element in any progressive nation, saying that Ghana can grow faster if it makes discipline its bedrock.
According to her, many developed nations in the world have reached where they are now due to how they imbibed discipline in the citizenry.
She explained that without discipline, it will be difficult, if not impossible for a country like Ghana to make any meaningful progress in its developmental drive.
Rev. Aryee said self-discipline helps people to make informed decisions and choices, pointing out that "Ghana is blessed with a lot of natural resources but due to lack of discipline, we are not able to use them to better the lives of our people."
She therefore urged parents and teachers to work hand-in-hand in disciplining students so as to help them achieve academic excellence.
The Headmistress of the school, Mrs Valencia Quame, commended the forebears of the school for their foresight in the establishment of the school.
She said the school since its establishment has trained and continue to train industrious human resource for the country.
She said the school continues to remain a force in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), reiterating that it would continue to raise the standards of education in the Senior High School (SHS) level in the country.
History
Established in 1940 at Adabraka in the Greater Accra Region by Mr Joseph Thomas Leigh and his three friends, who were all teachers at the Accra High School, Odorgonno was later absorbed into the government system and moved from its initial location to its present location at Awoshie also in Accra in 1990.
Originally a Boys Day School, the school became a mixed institution in 1993 and received boarding status in 2007.
Source: Daily Graphic
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Madam, I speak without malice over his issue you have raised. My discourse is dispassionate, with all due respect. 1. You were a member of the PNDC that superintended and supervised the breakdown of discipline in the country. 2. You were once a Secretary of Education under JJ Rawlings and what did you do at the time? were you not in support of the same indiscipline that Rawlings introduced when he looked own on hardworking Ghanaians and insulted the elderly like no one's business. did you check his excesses at the time? 3. You were one of the people that formulated the JSS policy and you helped take out basic civic education from our syllabus. Did that help us? 4. When your government (P)NDC introduced the compulsory school uniform konkonte and nkate nkwan for all schools because one person had been given the contract to supply that in order for the party to make money, did you consider that as corruption? 5. Was it not in your PNDC govt era when Universities were closed down for more than one academic year? and in keeping the students at home, what did you seek to achieve? Discipline?? Hell NO!! Today, your action and inaction have come back to hit hard at all of us. Parents and Teachers have very little to do now since the break down in the educational system... designed to satisfy one man's whims and caprices has gotten all of us into a big ditch. Your advice, though good, must be directed at your good self and your cronies of those times.
we're hypocrites in this country. those who claim to be fighting corruption themselves are more corrupt and we we're happy with it. we have to have common hatred or standard mindset against corruption irrespective of who perpetuates it. A journalist who sits on radio as a host or as a panelist takes money from corrupt government officials and does pick and choose discussions.
Ghana needs a Gathafi. And white tiif can come and steell oil, gold, timber, bauxite, diamond and pay bribess to unpatriotic grand sons of Africa!
she was a strong revolutionary ***barred word*** during the PNDC era BULLYING CITIZENS AND KILLING THEM WITHOUT ANY JUST CAUSE,TODAY SHE HAS THE AUDACITY TO CALL FOR DISCIPLINE,GOD SAVE US.NATION WRECKERS.WE KNOW YOUR PAST VERY WELL JUST ***barred word***.
you alone you serve on about 20 Boards is that not greed. or you think you are the only competent person in ghana