Chief of Kwaprow, a suburb of Cape Coast in the Central Regional capital, Nana Kwesi Mensah lll has enthusiastically announced his community to have had an antidote to the region's spread across canker in teenage pregnancy.

This follows a tense directive set out by himself and his elders to have teenagers seized from roaming the streets after 9PM.

According to him, Kwaprow which once saw teenage girls impregnated haphazardly prior to his enstoolment as chief of the community has started recording impressive digits so far as teenage pregnancy is concerned in the locality after the enforcement of his issued directive.

He revealed this following the official launching of the community's 2023 Ahobaa Festival slated  from August 24-28, 2023.

The well-attended program witnessed reputable personalities like the Former Vice Chancellor for the Cape Coast Technical University, Rev. Prof. Ing. Joshua Danso Owusu Sekyere, Horace Ekow Ewusi, the former Central Regional Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and a Parliamentary hopeful for Cape Cape North constituency, the Safohene of Amamoma, Nana Kofi Shiburah among others all gracing the occasion.

Nana Kwesi Mensah told Sompa News that the laid down regulation set to tackle the area's teenage pregnancy rate to improve students steadfastness in learning at night when faulted, attracts a fine of GH¢100 to parents whose ward defected it, as that defector teenager will subsequently receive strokes of cane from volunteers assigned to see to the adherence of the directive.

Rev. Prof. Ing. Joshua Danso Owusu Sekyere, the immediate past Vice Chancellor for the Cape Coast Technical University on the chief's instituted initiatives which borders on enhancing the education of children living within Kwaprow amid the area's preparation towards its Ahobaa festival, commended Nana Kwesi Mensah for his laudable efforts in ensuring a better future for teenagers in the community having gotten to know him quiet recently.

Source: Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan