Child rights advocate: Arrest mother denying brilliant son education
According to the executive director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, the mother will not enroll the boy because her new faith does not approve of education
The executive director of Child Rights International, Bright Appiah, wants the mother, who is denying her brilliant son access to education after completing Junior High School to be arrested and prosecuted.
The student only named as Evans is reported to be one of the best in his Tema-based school, where his teachers had already secured his prospectus, but failed to convince the mother to enroll him.
Social welfare officials at Tema are also helping to resolve the issue.
According to the executive director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, the mother will not enroll the boy because her new faith does not approve of education.
Asare laments that several calls placed to the mom to rescind her decision have proven futile.
Reacting to the development on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Friday (22 December), Appiah said the issue must be treated as a criminal case.
“Our legal framework suggests that the fundamental right that you have as a parent is given by the state. Right to education and health is so fundamental that not even the state can deny the child access to education, how much more the parent,” the CRI boss said.
“This is clearly a criminal case,” he said. “The person must be arrested and dealt with, and if our system is working properly, by now the child should be with safe person or the assembly must take up the responsibility of the child.”
“Elsewhere the parent will not even see the child for so many years because the state is interested in the child, so let’s look at it in a way that we can change the life of this child and ensure the state responds to the need of the child,” Appiah added.
Listen to Bright Appiah in the attached audio clip below:
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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