Nana Adwoa Gyeduaa ll, a queen-mother, has appealed for support to empower girls and bring the rising cases of teenage pregnancy in the Sunyani West

Municipality under control.

She said teenage pregnancy was alarming in the municipality due to economic

hardship and poverty, stressing many teenage girls were engaged in sexual

perversion because their parents were poor, and therefore could not cater for their adolescent needs.

"Pre-marital sexual practices among teenage girls is more of an anthem here", the queen-mother stated, saying "the unholy behaviour of these girls is now difficult to control".

Nana Gyeduaa said the situation worsened at Odomase, and its adjoining communities and was thereby impeding girl-child education, as many of the victims were out of school

She was speaking in an interview with Sompa FM Odomase after her enstoolment as the Benkumhemaa (left wing queen) of the Odomase Number One Traditional.

Nana Yaa Adanse Poduo Il, the Paramount Queen Mother of Odomase Number

One Traditional Area took Nana Gyeduaa through traditional rites to seal her enstoolment, amid drumming and dancing.

Nana Gyeduaa bemoaned what she described as the uncontrolled pre-marital sexual practices, particularly, among girls in the area and resulting in high population growth and unemployment, and called for immediate measures to control the situation.

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