immorality is a big canker!

A primary class six boy has
impregnated three girls in the
Ekumfi Adansi Methodist School,
Rev Emmanuel Dagbui, a teacher in
the school, has said.
Rev Dagbui, the Priest in-charge of
the Ekumpoano Methodist Church,
said this at an Advocacy Youth
Assembly at Ekumfi Ebiram in the
Mfantseman Municipality.
The Youth Assembly, a third to be
held in the Municipality, was
collaboration between Plan Ghana, a
non-governmental organization,
and the National Youth Council to
make children to know how
Metropolitan, Municipal and District
Assemblies (MMDAs) conduct their
meetings. It was also to encourage
children to bring to the fore issues
that militate against their education
and development to the attention of
the Assembly.
Rev Dagbui was contributing to a
discussion on teenage pregnancy
which the Youth Assembly said was
a problem in the area.
Statistics show that in 2007, 19 girls
between ages 10 and 14 were
impregnated.
In 2008, 18 girls between ages 10
and 14 dropped out of school due to
pregnancy and 1,129 between ages
15 to 19 got pregnant. In 2009, 17
girls between ages 10 and 14 got
pregnant. The children blamed the
problem on the inability of parents
to exercise control over their
children and the failure of parents to
provide the needs of their children.
On poor Basic Education Certificate
Examination results, the children
blamed drunkard teachers and
those who were not regular at
school, children who spend their
time watching television and video
shows and the government for
engaging teachers on other duties
such as registration of voters and
population census.
It came out at the assembly meeting
that some of the girls contributed
money to pay for abortion any time
one of them got pregnant.
It was also revealed that thieves had
been harassing schools in the
Ekumfi Traditional Area. Items in
some of the schools had been
stolen and these include computes
and polytanks belonging the Adansi
Methodist School, library books for
Essuehyia Methodist, polytanks for
Ekotsi and Suprodo schools.
Source: GNA