The Asikuma Odoben Brakwa (AOB) District in the Central Region has according to its Public Health Directorate revealed the area has topped the region's 2022 teenage pregnancy tally with 576 recorded cases.

The figure is an increase of its 537 cases recorded in 2021 which then saw the district place second on the compiled chart, having recorded a total of 684 teenage pregnancy cases in 2020.

Mrs. Florence Adjei, the AOB District Public Health Director disclosed this while addressing the community at the Breman State Palace after a courtesy visit to Odeefo Amoakwa Buadu VIII, Paramount Chief for the Breman Asikuma Traditional Area who doubles as President for the Central Regional House of Chiefs to earmark its Akwesidae on Sunday, 19th March 2023.

The Public Health Director speaking to Sompa News reporter Eric Annan noted that culprits vastly responsible for impregnating these minors are Taxi Drivers and Pragya Riders who afterwards leave these teenagers to their fate by refusing to take responsibility for their actions.

Mrs. Adjei then advised parents within the locality to place much emphasis on their ward's education, having highlighted the lack of parental control, broken homes, poverty, and peer influence to play a vital role in the area's hiked teenage pregnancy.

Nana Akosua Asantewaa Yeboah IV, Queen Mother of Breman Nwomaso, a suburb of Breman Asikuma who got herself enstooled that faithful day, vouched to collaborate with existing Queen Mothers of the area to educate teenagers on the need to abstain from early sex through which teenage girls get themselves impregnated.

She then urged parents to stop putting unnecessary pressure on their teen daughters to go for men and asking them for money knowing very well of their unemployed status.

Odeefo Amoakwa Buadu VIII, addressing the worrying situation, tasked Queen Mothers within his paramountcy to embark on a mass teenage pregnancy education.

He advised youths to avoid the intake of aphrodisiacs to boost their sexual drive as it's accompanied by a lot of health complications.

Source: Ghana/Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan