Minister supports new advocacy group with K10,000

Minister for Community Development, Youth and Religion Wake Goi has assisted a student initiative for anti-corruption advocacy with K10,000.
He presented the funds to Sogeri National High School students recently.
The Sogeri Youth Against Corruption Association is a student-body initiative.
The association hosts activities to fight corrupt practices and promote good behaviour and attitude change among students and the surrounding communities.
Goi challenged the students to set goals and get their priorities right in education.
He discouraged them from getting involved in illegal activities that would destroy their future.
Goi said young people needed to keep away from activities that would encourage negative behaviours such as drug and alcohol consumption, phonography and other illicit practices.
He said students who allowed themselves to be involved in such practices contributed to corruption, unstable societies and declining of morals.
Goi challenged the students to have a clear vision and have goals in their education to become leaders and shapers of tomorrow.
“I am a grade 10 drop out,” he said.
“I was pushed out of the education system but that did not stop me from following my goals to finally become a politician and sit in the highest decision making office in the country, the National Executive Council (NEC),” Goi said.
National Youth Development Authority (NYDA) acting director-general Joe Itaki said the Youth Against Corruption Association was a new group in the campus that would offer students a chance to make a difference among their peers.