The Minister for Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh says the circulating document on the Comprehensive Sexuality Education programme is not from his outfit and that the drafted curriculum has not been approved.
The Minister at a press briefing today October 1, said the curriculum for this academic year has already been rolled out and that it has no Comprehensive Sexuality Education programme included.
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He distanced his ministry and the government from the CSE document being circulated.
"The fact that we all belong to UNESCO and they are promoting an agenda does not mean Ghana will do what they are promoting fully when people wanted to promote things alien to us we objected. Even if somebody develops a draft policy document, it has to go through an approval process but does not mean it will be accepted "
"I can categorically say that those purported documents going round is not owned by the Ghana government and the Ministry of Education"
The Minister's comments come on the back of several criticisms from a section of the public who are not in favour of the proposed curriculum for pupils in primary schools which has a CSE programme embedded in.
The Comprehensive Sexual Education programme is expected to equip pupils to know and experience their sexuality.
The Minister added that the National Council for Curriculum Assesment (NCCA) which is the body that looks at documents have not submitted any such curriculum to the Ministry of Education for approval.
He clarified that even though in February this year he joined UNESCO to launch a programme, it was on general sex education and not a Comprehensive Sexual Education programme subject being adopted by his Ministry.
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