Lukman Tahiru, Youth Activist and Chief Executive Officer of Ideapath Consult, has called for cultural transformations to deal with issues of teenage pregnancies and child marriages in the Upper West Region.
He made the call in an interview with Info Radio at the sidelines of a parliamentary sitting of the Upper West Region Youth Parliament on Saturday, November 6, 2021 in Wa to deliberate on measures taken by GES towards getting teenage mothers back to school.
He cited elopement which is still being practiced in some parts of the region a major cause of early motherhood of girls, and needs to be reformed.
The development practitioner called on all stakeholders to take keen interest in protecting the rights of the girl child towards reducing the incidences teenage pregnancy if not completely uprooting it.
He said data monitoring is key to fashioning out intervention mechanisms to curtailing the menace.
Mr Tahiru also called for reformation of the Ghanaian laws which dictates on a girl can marry at age 18 and be consented to sex at age 16.
He said the laws must be tied to each other and applied synchronously as a way to dealing with the issue holistically.