The Convention People's Party CPP has called on President John Evans Atta Mills and his Minister of Education, Mr. Alex Tetteh Enyo, to begin a national consultation process that would lead to making it compulsory for children in Ghana to be kept in school until age 18. The CPP believes that keeping all children in school or workplace training schemes for an extra two years after they complete Junior High School, is vital to tackling Ghana's unemployment situation, stopping youngsters from turning to crime, drugs, prostitution and homosexualism. In a statement signed by the Director of Communication, Mr. William Dowokpor, the CPP bemoans the extent to which young girls are engaging in prostitution and the boys in homosexualism due to the lack of opportunities available to them. The CPP has therefore urged the government to do away with the inflation oriented development agenda and focus on building an economy that creates jobs for the masses. Read the full statement below Keep Children In School Or Training Until Age 18 The Convention People's Party CPP wishes to call on President John Evans Atta Mills and his Minister of Education, Mr. Alex Tetteh Enyo, to begin a national consultation process that would lead to making it compulsory for children in Ghana to be kept in school until age 18. The CPP believes that keeping all children in school or workplace training schemes for an extra two years after they complete Junior High School, is vital to tackling Ghana's unemployment situation, stopping youngsters from turning to crime, drugs, prostitution and homosexualism. The CPP notes with regret, the evidence that most of the young girls engaging in prostitution and the boys in homosexualism are drawn into those habits because they have hit the wall and their options have run out. Instead of pursuing an economic development agenda that targets inflation, cuts in government spending on employment, education and social welfare programmes as the NDC and NPP governments have done consistently in the last eighteen years, the CPP demands that President Mills pursues the development of an economy that creates jobs to cure social dysfunctions. The CPP's weekly programme of offering alternative policy visions for good governance in Ghana, dubbed "How CPP Will Do It" enters its sixth week on Wednesday, October 27, 2010; when Mrs. Elizabeth Akpalu, CPP Shadow Cabinet Member for Women and Children Affairs takes her turn to deliver a policy vision on how a CPP government will manage women and children issues. We call on the Mills Administration to take the policy alternatives so presented by the CPP's Shadow Cabinet seriously and adopt them for implementation in the national interest. Signed by William Dowokpor, Director of Communications, CPP. Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana