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A Deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has criticised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for allowing children to participate in their ‘Wongbo’ demonstration last Wednesday.

Pupils of the Mantse Tackey Liberty Avenue cluster of schools took advantage of their break time to participate in the demonstration, which was held in protest against the current power crisis.

Commenting on the development Monday, Okudzeto Ablakwa said the leadership of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) should have taken along their children to the demonstration if they were interested in having kids participate in the march.

The deputy minister told Accra-based Citi FM that children’s’ lives were endangered by the negligence of their teachers.

“Anything could have happened to the children. We can’t train our children that way.

“Do have to introduce our children to politics in that manner? We have cautioned the teachers and they have responded. I have seen the school myself and it’s heavily fortified so they could have prevented the children from going out.

“If the demonstrators were so much interested in having children on the protest, they should have sent their kids along,” Ablakwa said.