SPEND PRODUCTIVE HOURS WITH HUSBANDS (PAGE 35, MAY 17, 2010)

A MARRIAGE counsellor, Mama Setsie III of Ho-Heve in the Ho Municipality, has advised prospective mothers to spend productive hours with their husbands rather than relying on all night church services in search of pregnancies.
She said many women missed their ovulation periods while at prayer camps at a time when they should have been with their husbands and that gave way to several temptations in many marital homes.
Mama Setsei, who is the Asafo queen of Ho-Heve, was speaking at the opening ceremony of a workshop organised by the National Commission of Culture for cultural and planning officers of district assemblies in the Volta Region in Ho.
The three-day workshop was on the theme: “Culture and development planning.”
Mama Setsei urged stakeholders in the cultural sphere of the nation to work as a united group to strongly advocate a cultural protection programme that would stem the emerging tide of waywardness among the youth.
A member of the board of the National Commission of Culture, Mr Michael Attipoe, said the educational system of the country was still not responsive to the needs of the society because children were not receiving the desired training to become development oriented.
According to him, religion was causing more harm than good because people spent more productive hours, adding that citizens needed to analyse and readjust to realities of life to enable them to use time judiciously.
The Ho Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Isaac Kodobisah, said the issue of the neglect of culture had been one stumbling block to development.
“We always fail to identify the potentials of our culture hence we give less priority to it when planning for our various district budget estimates,” he said.
Mr Kodobisah expressed the hope that the unfortunate mistake and misconceptions about culture would change after the workshop and that it would enable district assemblies to realise the development aspects of culture.
In a welcoming address, the Regional Director of the Centre for National Culture, Mr William Addo, expressed regret that although culture had been defined as the totality of the way of life of a group of people it had been sidelined as if it had no impact on everyday life.