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‘Stop making advances at teenage girls’ - MCE

Mr Solomon Ebo Appiah, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Komenda -Edina- Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality, has cautioned men who make advances on adolescent girls leading to high incidences of teen pregnancies to desist from such acts or face the law.

Date Created : 5/24/2022 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Irene Kwakye/Ghanadistricts.com

He expressed dissatisfaction on the rate at which teenage girls within the KEEA Municipality are being dropped out of school contributing to increase rate of unemployment.

Mr Ebo Appiah made the cautioning during an inaugural ceremony of the Central Regional Youth Parliament at Elmina.

The ceremony was on the theme; “Reducing Teenage Pregnancy; the role of the Youth”.

He admonished youth parliamentarians to rise up as the future leaders and be agent of Sexual and Gender Violence perpetrating in the country depriving a lot of young men and women a better future.

He said there was the need for parenting skills, which needed to be enforced while arriving at new forms of guiding children in the wake of technological advancement.

The MCE noted that access of adolescent boys and girls to the internet exposed them to materials that could jeopardize their future; hence they needed parental supervision to prevent them from becoming vulnerable.

Mrs Richlove Amamoo, the Regional Director of the Department of Gender said parents should ensure that materials their children accessed on the internet were educative and would enhance their growth, saying, advertisements could be disabled or restricted.

She urged adolescents to desist from accepting requests from unfamiliar accounts and engaging online challenges, desist from posting sensitive information and seeking financial help on the internet, which could expose them.

Mr Emmanuel Anim Ofosu, the Director of National Youth Authority (NYA) said the ceremony was organized by his outfit in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and was targeted at equipping some youth leaders in the Region with the needed knowledge about the dangers associated with teenage pregnancy so they could serve as ambassadors in their communities in order to control the practice.

He charged parents, adults, assembly members, and other civic groups to provide enough education and guidance for teenagers to desist from early sex, which mostly resulted in teenage pregnancy and premature parenting.