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General News of Monday, June 10, 2019
Source: ghananewsagency.org
2019-06-10
Hajia Ramatu Abdullai, Regional Vice President of the Muslim Women's Federation of Ghana
Hajia Ramatu Abdullai, a leader of Muslim women advised parents to badert themselves at home through effective communication and mentoring in the education of their children, especially teenage girls.
She added that teenage girls were often and easily attracted to material things, which partially or totally affected their lives if parental guidance was not effective.
Hajia Abdullai, Bono, Bono East and Ahafo, Regional Vice President of the Federation of Muslim Women's Associations of Ghana, gave her opinion during an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on materialism and its concomitant moral degeneracy among the country's teenage girls. in Sunyani.
It expressed its concern that the modernization resulting from globalization had led to the adoption of Western cultures, particularly clothing, which was contrary to Ghanaian cultural norms and values. .
Hajia Abdullai, wife of Sheikh Alhaji Sheikh Umar Abdul Kadir, regional chiefs Bono, Bono East and Ahafo, stressed that the customs and traditions that dictated the decent way of life were gradually being absorbed by foreign cultural values and the fact that they were not the same. The net effect was the indiscipline of young people in their dress, their poor attitude towards education and work.
She observed that today's teens do not respect cultural values, rules and regulations, that they are able to decide for themselves, but that it does not help them.
Hajia Ramatu cited most of the girls dressed indecently, while others practiced peddling and abuse of hard drugs, fraudulent acts such as "sakawa" (a quick way to make money), and occultism due to peer pressure, lack of values and effective mentoring.
She urged parents and guardians to overrule decisions, especially those made by their teenage children, to enable the country to be adequately and successfully educated so that its future parents, guardians and disciplined leaders be disciplined.
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