The Ministry of Education has denied receiving an amount of $22m from the Swedish government for the introduction of the controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education, CSE, programme for basic schools.
Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa alleged that the Swedish government has committed $22 million to Ghana and other African countries to help them curb social opposition that may arise as a result of the introduction of the programme.
However, the spokesperson for the Education Ministry Vincent Assafuah speaking on Joy FM denied the claims and said no such amount has been allocated to them for the implementation of the CSE programme.
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"The Ministry of Education has not received any $22m for the implementation of CSE. Also, there has not been any cabinet approval for CSE which is supposed to include LGBT. The Director-General of GES has denied signing any document that is supposedly a guideline for CSE.
Meanwhile, MP for Ningo Prampram Sam George says he has documents that show the recipient countries of funding from the Swedish government.
"The Ministry will deny the $22m claims like the Minister denied CSE is been implemented, I have documents that spells out recipient countries of funding from the Swedish government. It is a document that shows the push through the United Nations to get CSE into countries in Africa. There are about 10 recipient countries which Ghana is included," he said on Joy Fm's Top story.
Ever since the document of the Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE) surfaced, it has received a lot of backlash from a section of the public.
The first is the document titled “Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Ghana†with the coat of arms embossed on the back of the document adorned with the national colours- red, gold and green.
The document has what it called age-appropriate information on sexual reproductive health for kids between ages four to 24.
There is also a separate document with graphic details of sexual organs drawn in them. That document titled “Know it, Own it, Live It...Comprehensive Sexuality Education Manual†is being championed by the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) and other international organisations.
That document also provides details of what a child will be taught in school, this time with very detailed and graphic symbols about the male and female private parts.
The documents have triggered an intense public controversy, with many lambasting government and accusing it of smuggling concepts that alien to Ghanaian children.
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The Ministry of Education has made it clear that they have not included the CSE in the 2019 curriculum for basic schools.
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