The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) is to organize Quizzes on the 1992 Constitution among pupils at the Basic School Level across the country to make the 2025 Independence Day celebration more cheerful and memorable, besides their participation in the usual march passes.
Ms. Ophelia Nana Yaa Ankrah, NCCE Eastern Regional Director, explained that the quizzes form part of the Commission’s strategies to get pupils and students to learn the contents of the 1992 Constitution better while having fun.
She said the competitions would be held under the 2025 working theme for the Commission: “Ghana’s Future: Our Collective Responsibility.”
Launching a series of activities to be organized by the NCCE Eastern Regional Directorate in Koforidua on Friday, Ms. Ankrah explained the competition would hold in all 33 Districts within the region from March 3rd to 10th, 2025.
The NCCE Eastern Regional Director told the media that each district of the commission in the region would organize Civic Clubs from at least four Basic schools to participate in the quiz.
“As much as possible, the Constitution Game Board should be used for the quiz. Where the Board is not available, offices should use the traditional approach, whereby each participating school presents three contestants,” she noted.
Ms. Ankrah stressed that the concept of Civic Education Clubs forms part of a broader philosophy of the commission to ‘Catch Them Young’ and build the tenets of democratic and constitutional values and culture in them.
She explained that the game is used as a tool to educate the Ghanaian public, especially the youth in schools, about the 1992 Constitution through an entertaining and educative means.
The NCCE Eastern Regional Director explained that the commission seeks to ensure that pupils and students at all levels of Ghana’s educational institutions are taught to realize their roles as future leaders and their role in the consolidation of Ghana’s democratic system.
She said the philosophy was to empower pupils and students who, in turn, are expected to educate their parents and others who have not had the benefit of education about the 1992 Constitution.
Ms. Ankrah noted that the purpose of this year’s competition is also to encourage pupils and students to study the contents and provisions of the Constitution entertainingly.
“To ensure that pupils and students at all levels of Ghana’s educational institutions realise their role in consolidating Ghana’s democratic system and to enhance civic knowledge and promote good citizenship among the participants,” she said.
Ms. Ankrah noted that the innovative strategy adopted by the commission is to help basic-level students learn and know the 1992 Constitution, stressing that “this will develop future civic thinkers and actors who will not only study the Constitution but act constitutionally to deepen the culture of democracy in Ghana.”
She said as Ghana gears up towards the commemoration of its 68th Independence Day Anniversary on Thursday, March 6, 2025, for which a lot of preparations are under way across the divide to ensure a very memorable event, it is programmed and staged out.
The NCCE, not losing sight of the fact that the 1992 Constitution has created room for civic education to be used as an important strategy and tool for creating an awareness of the main values of democratic governance, instilling the spirit of patriotism, and enhancing citizens’ participation in governance.
Ms. Ankrah said the overarching objective of this exercise is to deploy quizzes as a way to promote learning of the contents of the 1992 Constitution entertainingly among students at the Basic School Level.
