Dziewornu Boli, the Complementary Education Agency’s (CEA) Acting Deputy Executive Director of Operations, has refuted allegations that the inclusion of LGBTQ+-related content in the Teachers’ manual was intentional or part of a plan to subvert Ghanaian norms.
In an interview with ABC In The Morning, Mr. Boli called the situation a “genuine mistake” and emphasised that there was no purpose to provide anything that went against the moral and cultural traditions of the nation.
He stated, “The manual was a genuine mistake. There was absolutely no agenda to sneak in anything against Ghanaian values.”
Mr. Boli claims that the contentious handbook was created during the previous administration’s time rather than under the present one. He clarified that the problem was only discovered during a review process and that corrective action was taken by the present leadership.
“The manual was designed under the previous administration. What we have done is to identify the error and correct it,” he said.
In response to accusations that agency officials had neglected their oversight duties, Mr. Boli denied that anybody had “slept on the job,” stating that due diligence was done as soon as the problem became apparent.
“Nobody slept on the job. We corrected a mistake of the previous administration as soon as it was detected,” he said.
Public discussion has been triggered by the topic, with some segments of society voicing reservations over the inclusion of LGBTQ+ allusions in teaching materials.
In the meantime, after concluding that a section defining “gender identity” did not align with Ghanaian cultural norms, values, or the approved national curriculum, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) withdrew the contentious Senior High School teacher manual and recalled hard copies from distribution.
Source: newsthemegh.com