[ 2017-02-24 ]

We are not aware teachers are impregnating school girls - GES PRO
The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it is
unaware teachers are impregnating their pupils as
reported by a section of the media stating most
cases turn out to be untrue.

Public Relations Officer of the GES Rev Jonathan
Bettey said the headquarters has not received any
such reports and figures adding that they only
heard of the reports in the media.

He however stated that they have punitive ways of
sanctioning teachers who engage in such acts
including such teachers transferred to other
areas.

“The Headquarters has not received any such
reports and figures. We only heard of them in the
media. It is not true that teachers are sleeping
with school children. We have punitive ways of
sanctioning teachers who engage in such acts. Such
teachers are mostly transferred”. He disclosed
on Kumasi-based Ultimate FM.

But Bright Appiah of Child Rights International
underscored the need for pragmatic measures to put
in place by stakeholders in dealing with the issue
and urged the GES to be proactive.

“We need to ensure that we put in place certain
measures to deal with these issues. My worry is
about why it is only about teachers. The Ghana
Education Service must be very proactive”, he
urged.

There is a report that Teachers in the Central
Region have been named among the top groups of
people who impregnated teenage girls in the area
in 2016. They are reported to have impregnated 301
of the 12,048 pregnant young girls in the region
in 2016.

Drivers, small-scale miners, and small-scale
farmers are also among the top culprits
responsible for teenage pregnancy in the region.

This was revealed at the 2016 Ghana Health Service
(GHS) performance review event held at the
University of Cape Coast.

Out of the 12,048 young girls who got pregnant in
the region, small-scale farmers were responsible
for 986 (19.3 percent) of them, while drivers were
responsible for 676 (13.2 percent).

Small scale miners were responsible for 397 (7.8
percent) of those pregnancies, while unemployed
men were responsible for 353 (6.9 percent).

Primary and secondary school teachers followed
with 301 pregnancies, representing 5.9 percent of
all teenage pregnancies in the Central Region in
2016.

Source - mynewsgh.com

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