The Member of Parliament for Ekumfi Constituency in the Central Region and Deputy Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Kingsley Ato Cudjoe, has advised senior high school girls in the area against early sex.
He advised the students against promiscuity which is the topmost cause of teenage pregnancy in the area, indicating that teenage pregnancy leads to lower quality of life.
The MP told the girls, “because you are a teenager and you sleep with a teenager, you get pregnant, the guy continues his education; you become a mum and you cannot do anything; you have to have your baby, sell by the roadside, and the quality of your life goes down”.
As the first New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP in the constituency, Ato Cudjoe said the area could struggle with a possible population explosion with the high teenage pregnancy rate.
Kingsley Ato Cudjoe said this when he donated a total of 660 mono and dual desks, sixty table for teachers, and sportswear to schools in the Ekumfi District.
He made the first set of donations to T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School and the Essakyir Methodist Basic School, both at Ekumfi Essakyir, the district capital.
At the T.I. Ahmadiyya high school, Ato Cudjoe donated 300 mono desks, two sets of jerseys and two footballs to the mixed senior high school which is the oldest in the district.
Speaking to the students, staff, and authorities of the school, the MP praised the institution’s resolve to maintain quality education despite challenges like lack of bungalows for the teaching and non-teaching staff.
He promised to build a three-bedroom facility for the assistant headmasters of the school who currently share only the two rooms at the headmaster’s quarters.
Later, he donated 120 dual desks and twenty sets of teachers’ tables and chairs to the Essakyir Methodist Basic School, while schools in the communities of Eyisam and Ebuakwa they had the same numbers.
The Ekumfi District carved from the Mfantseman Municipality in 2012, according to the 2015 Ghana Statistical Service Ghana Poverty Mapping Report, has the highest poverty incidence (48.4%) in the region, a factor that also affects its educational level.
The district, with a projected total population of 76,528 (2017), currently boasts of 44 KGs, 44 Primary Schools, 42 Junior High Schools, four Senior High Schools, one Missionary College of Education and a Missionary University College.
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By: Joseph Ackon-Mensah/citinewsroom.com/Ghana