“He lured and forced to have have sex with me and got me pregnant. I didn’t know he was my family member. It was later that I got to know. I decided to continue my education in spite of the pregnancy”.

Yaa, was among the 2023 candidates who sat for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which ended on August 11, 2023.

Similar abuse cases resonate across the communities in Okere District.

“Most of the cases that we recorded the community leaders themselves are culprit so I think there should be by-laws in communities to penalize those who do such things”. Alhassan Nuhu, Executive Director of Faith Dawah Foundation,a non for profit organization implementing Project dubbed ‘Let her Rise’ to curb the menace in the district said.

The project is funded by Plan international Ghana and Global Affairs Canada to create awareness and tackle the root cause of teenage pregnancy in the district.

At a community engagement and quiz competition on adolescent reproductive health organized at Lakpa, a farming community attended by traditional rulers, Ghana Education Service,Ghana Health Service parents and pupils to create awareness on the menace, the Executive Director of Faith Dawah Foundation Nuhu Alhassan called for enactment of by-laws to deal ban adolescent from attending wake-keeping.

He also called for easy access to condoms in the various communities for

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