The Upper West Regional Children’s Parliament has called on
parents to protect children from the deadly COVID-19 disease by ensuring that
they stayed at home.It urged the
parents to encourage their children to observe the COVID-19 precautionary
measures to help control its spread.
Madam Zakia Ibrahim, the Speaker of the Children’s
Parliament, made the call in a statement issued and copied to the Ghana News
Agency on the COVID-19 pandemic in Wa.
“I wish to admonish our parents to ensure the safety of
all children. Assist and insist your child is protected against the virus. The
first and foremost thing to do in fighting the virus is to stay at home. The
virus has no legs, hence, cannot move and spread if we do not move”, she
said.
She also encouraged the Children to regularly wash their
hands with soap under clean running water and use alcohol-based hand sanitizers
when necessary to help protect themselves from contracting the virus.
She said as schools had been closed down due to the COVID-19,
children would like to take that opportunity to roam about, which she said was
dangerous to their health in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Madam Ibrahim expressed the hope that all parents should take
interest in the welfare of their children and encourage them to make use of the
academic programmes on television stations and to also learn on their own while
at home.
She also appealed to parents to protect their children from
the Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) which had claimed several lives in the Upper
West Region.
The Pollie Kids, a Wa based youth-led group, inaugurated the
Upper West Regional Children’s Parliament on March 7, 2020 to help develop the
intellectual and leadership skills of the children in the region.
Source: Ghana News Agency