The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) Tema Metropolitan Office has inaugurated civic education clubs for basic schools in the metropolis.

The Civic Education Club is an educational club that provides students the opportunity to study the 1992 Constitution as well as their rights and privileges as children.

The clubs were inaugurated for the SOS Hermann Gmeiner JHS and the Regular Baptists School, and executives were inducted into office, and copies of the 1992 Constitution were presented to them.

The two schools form part of five newly formed civic clubs in the Tema Metropolis; the NCCE already has eight existing clubs operating in schools in the area.

Madam Gifty Agyeiwaa Badu, the Tema Metropolitan NCCE Director, said the formation of the clubs was an initiative from the commission to encourage the study of the 1992 Constitution to broaden and deepen the understanding and knowledge of the youth on democracy and nation-building.

Madam Badu said students are also encouraged to realise their roles as future leaders and take an active part in consolidating Ghana’s democracy and national stability.

She mentioned that the club would also give students the opportunity to bring on board innovative ideas that would aid their studies of the constitution and grow the club.

Madam Badu said, to make the club more interesting for students, excursions to educational centres like the Kwame Nkrumah Museum, the Parliament House and others would be organised to aid further understanding of the club’s mandate.

Miss Issabella Enimil, the president for the Regular Baptise Civic Education Club, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the club would help them understand the constitution, their rights and responsibilities as children and how to help the country to grow.

Miss Nhyira Danso, president of the club for SOS Hermann Gmeiner JHS, said that the club would give them the opportunity to visit places that would broaden their understanding of the constitution and pledged to work hard as president to make meetings of the club interesting to attract their peers.