Cynthia Morrison – Agona West MP
A total of 12 teenage pregnancies have been recorded in eight Centres at the on-going Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) as against 17 cases registered last year in the Agona West Municipality.
This indicated that students were adhering to information sharing through sensitisation and formation of various girls clubs at the basic schools in the Municipality.
The reduction of teenage pregnancy among school girls came to light when Member of Parliament for Agona West, Mrs Cynthia Morrison and Mrs Hellena Elizabeth Essel, Agona West Director of Education toured BECE centres in the Municipality.
The MP was accompanied by Ishmael Nana Ogyefo, Agona West Coordinating Director, Ms Matilda Swatson, Human Resource Director of Agona West Ghana Education Service and other officials.
A total of 2,583 registered candidates were writing the five-day examinations made up of 1,343 boys and 1,240 girls.
The total number of 66 public schools and 42 private schools were taking part in the examination.
Addressing the candidates, Mrs Morrison called on the candidates to take the examination seriously to enable them get better grades to gain admission into the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme scheduled to take off in the next academic calendar.
The MP had earlier, donated mathematical sets to all the 2,583 candidates as a motivation.
She called on school girls to avoid pre-marital sex and other social vices that could affect their education, saying education is the key to poverty reduction and responsible adulthood.
Mrs Essel, the Director of Education, expressed the hope that the candidates would do serious work and pass well, saying cheating in examination could land them in trouble.
She said the aggregate to gain the students admission into SHS was pegged at 24 and therefore encouraged them to study hard to enjoy the government’s new policy on education.
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