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DCE vows to get child- marriage offenders caged

The District Chief Executive for Nabdam, Agnes Anamoo, has launched a campaign aimed at fighting child marriage in her district and vowed to use her office, to ensure that persons caught in the illegal act are prosecuted without delay.

Date Created : 2/16/2021 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Irene kwakye/Ghanadistricts.com

Ms. Anamoo, speaking at a forum dubbed: “Youth4Change” organized by Youth Harvest Foundation, said statistics available ranked Nabdam among districts with high child-marriage rate and so asked families to allow their girls to grow properly, be educated or learn a vocation and be psychologically ready for marriage before giving out their hand.

“As an assembly, we have collaborated with various traditional leaders in our communities to set laws that will punish people or parents who are involved in this practice and make sure that such practices are eradicated from this district,” she stressed.

She further stated that on the assembly’s sensitization drive, they supported close to a hundred girls with sanitary pads and educated them on personal hygiene and the reasons they must wait till they grow before marrying, and said this initiative will continue of which she have asked the planning officer to put it on their budget as one of the initiatives the assembly will be carrying out each year.

The DCE said Members of Youth Harvest Foundation in the district have intensified their campaign, targeting places like Sekoti, Pelungu, Kongo, Dasabligo, and Nangodi, where they interact with parents and opinion leaders on how they can work collectively to end the practice of child marriage and teenage pregnancies.