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DAILY HERITAGE WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2018
DAILY QUOTE
In every day, there are 1,440
minutes. That means we have
1,440 daily opportunities to
make a positive impact.
— Les Brown
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FOREIGN
HEALTH
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approve boost to
president's power
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ARTS
& ENT
SPORTS
My court case
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PG.07
PG.15
Movie House not
welcomed in Suhyen
— Suhyenhemaa
BY ANNETTE S. YEBOAH
SUHYENHEMAA AND
Mponuahemaa of the New
Juaben Traditional Area, Nana
Amoanimaa Kukudurofuo, has
said the traditional area will not
welcome projects undertaken by investors
that will seek to destroy the moral fibre of
her society.
She mentioned projects such as the
building of a Movie House which has a
high propensity of luring the youth into
sexual promiscuity and its attendant consequences
such as teenage pregnancy and unsafe
abortion, as unacceptable to those in
the community.
The Suhyenhemaa, however, said
Suhyen is open to good investments. She
encouraged investors to set up businesses
to help boost the economic situation of the
people and also create jobs for the youth.
According to her, it is her aim to ensure
that the youth in the area grow to be more
responsible and not engage in drug abuse
and other social vices.
She advised parents to train their children
in a God-fearing manner so that when
they grow up they would not depart from
it.
She said “it is very worrying that young
girls drop out of school due to pregnancy. I
will set aside a day when resource persons
will come to the area to speak to the youth
and parents about family life and the danger
and consequences of engaging in early
sex.
“Educating them about sex helps a lot
as the teachers alone cannot do that. It is a
shared responsibility. Parents should not be
shy talking to their young girls and boys
•Nana Amoanimaa Kukudurofuo
about sex. That taboo of not talking about
sex needs to be broken.”
She warned parents, especially mothers,
not to push their teenage girls to bring
home money or borrow money from the
girls because it pushes them to engage in
sex.
“I have set up a foundation called
Kukudurofuo Youth Foundation where the
youth are engaged in soap, ice cream, and
garment making to be financially independent,”
she said.
The queen noted that acrimonies in the
area had affected the development and
progress of the people. She, therefore, encouraged
the people to be united by putting
all litigations behind them for the sake of
peace and prosperity of the town.
“We have been in isolation for a long
time. It is time to bond with our neighbours.
I know change is a gradual process;
with time the fortune of the people will
change when they embrace it,” she added.
About her
Nana Amoanimaa Kukudurofuo, born
as Doreen Adjoa Amoanimaa Boamah at
Asokore on November 28, 1977, began her
education at Achimota School in Accra.
She continued at Abuakwa State College
for her form five and sixth form and
passed with distinction.
According to her, after her secondary
school she decided to seek greener pastures
abroad but her father, now of blessed
memory, talked her out of it, so she proceeded
to Ho Polytechnic, now Ho Technical
University, to study marketing.
“My reason for choosing Ho Polytechnic
was to change my environment and also
learn the diverse culture, which paid off for
me,” she said.
Nana Amoanimaa Kukudurofuo, who
did her national service with Ghana Telecom,
now Vodafone, said growing up she
never anticipated that one day she would
become a queen to her people.
“All changed six years ago when my
uncle, who is now the king, told me that the
queen position is vacant so if I am interested
I should let him know but I was
pulling back because I thought I don’t have
that zeal since there are other nieces
around.
“The nieces pulled back and with
prayers and consultations with my pastors
the way was paved for me to become the
queen,” she said.
Nana Amoanimaa Kukudurofuo advised
queens to team up with their respective
chiefs so that, together with their
people, they give collective push to the de-
Make safe abortion
services accessible
• Marie Stopes Director
pleads with govt
BY BENJAMIN TANDOH
THE GLOBAL Director of
Marie Stopes International,
Mr Simon Cooke, has called
on the government to make
services for safe abortion
available and accessible to
the youth in order to reduce
maternal deaths.
According to him, pregnant
women engage in unsafe
abortion because they
do not get the right services,
and lauded Ghana for its
initiatives in curbing unsafe
abortion.
Speaking to the DAILY
HERITAGE during his
visit to Ghana, Mr Cooke
said the issue of abortion
could not be overlooked,
hence the need to give quality
service to ensure that
lives are not lost.
“If they don’t know
where to get them, they will
find other ways of getting
abortion, which might be
unsafe and they might hurt
themselves.
“If abortion is restricted
or not available women will
still seek it and will still take
matters into their own
hands, so the best thing is to
make it properly regulated
and accessible,” he stated.
In view of this, Mr
Cooke said Marie Stopes International
had designed
programmes to educate
young women, especially
adolescents, on sexual reproductive
health.
“We are trying to provide
services at our centres and
provide outreach programmes
to poor and rural
communities and social
franchise which will be a
booster,” he said.
He added, “we will like
to continue to expand that
network to make sure that
the services are available
and accessible everywhere
they need those services,
and make sure young people
and adolescents know what
is available to them.”
One of the programmes,
he told the paper, was the
‘Time to Talk’ campaign,
which seeks to encourage
young girls to ask some
pressing questions on pregnancy
and family planning.
He stated that they had
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