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Let’s fight teenage pregnancy with education- Agnes Atayella

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A member of the Upper regional peace council, Madam Agnes Atayella has called for education of the girl child to help fight the menace of teenage pregnancy which has been the bane of the Upper East Region and other parts of Ghana.
She made this call while speaking on A1 Radio’s flagship program, Daybreak Upper East as part of events to mark the international women’s day.

The member of the regional peace council noted that currently, students are not been educated on the repercussions of fornication and hence indulge in sex hence increased number of cases of teenage pregnancy in the region.

“In the region, the illiteracy level is high so I think we should concentrate on our girls so that they can be educated. I think that the teenage pregnancy can be fought through education. What we at the peace council do is, we move to the various schools and educate them on the effects of sex before marriage. I think if we continue to move from school to school to educate them that they should go to school and when they start their own work they can get good men to marry, we can fight this worrying menace of teenage pregnancy.”

She also called for stringent measures from government and stakeholders in fighting the menace saying “in the North here because the laws are not being implemented, the men and the boys just keep impregnating the girls so stakeholders including government and chiefs should enforce the laws to the latter to fight against teenage pregnancy”.

March 8 every year is dedicated to celebrating the struggle for women’s right. This year, the day is being celebrated globally under the theme, ‘Be bold for change’ with a charge on all to take bold pragmatic actions to accelerate gender parity.

Although stakeholders have lauded the progress made so far in ensuring parity, women in many parts of the world, especially in Africa, are still challenged with cultural and some workplace practices that work against their progress. Such practices include workplace sexual harassment, Female Genital Mutilation, Child, Early and forced marriages.

By:Offei-Akoto Ayeh/a1radioonline.com/Ghana


 

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