A childhood activist and President of World Formative years Opportunity (WYO), Nafis Quaye has bemoaned the misdirection of the energies of the childhood in unproductive and damaging endeavours.

Mr Quaye, reacting to Tuesday’s violent collision between two childhood groups from the Nima and Mamobi communities, condemned the hideous acts of the childhood, describing it as “unproductive and damaging.”

“We’re at a stage where the tempo of model is running sooner than we enjoy idea attributable to technological innovation, attributable to this truth the least shall we close is to prepare ourselves to bettering upon our skills so we consume due advantage of the alternatives available. Guns and matchets develop no longer enjoy any role within the draw of things on this up to date times.”

Rival groups in Nima and Mamobi communities, on Tuesday [January 18, 2022], clashed maintaining machetes and weapons and shooting indiscriminately

The police indicated some innocent bystanders had been injured and are receiving scientific consideration.

The existence of these groups enjoy been identified to the security businesses, as neatly as idea leaders within the respective communities.

Past disturbances enjoy led to equivalent consequences, a space that serves as an enabler for future violent act.

Nonetheless Mr Quaye is calling on all stakeholders to repeatedly pick and be determined the procurement of lasting alternate choices to this societal most cancers.

“Deliberate and undivided consideration ought to be dedicated to the resolution of this topic. It must no longer be the usual fire-struggling with this time round”, Mr Quaye told.

The WYO is an NGO working at increasing alternatives for the childhood thru digital, technical and vocational skills training as neatly as substitute and volunteer programmes, with the splendid aim of constructing them employable, each and every thru entrepreneurship and for corporate environments.

WYO Ghana is a sister group of WYO Inc within the USA.

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