The Deputy Minister for Health, Tina Naa Ayeley Mensah, has commended Janet Opokua, a pregnant student who is sitting the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at New Gbawe Experimental School near Accra for her confidence.
“I am not happy that you are pregnant because our society abhors premarital sex among young boys and girls however my joy lies in the fact that you have not given up on yourself,” she remarked.
The candidate, whose pregnancy is six months old and hopes to be a soldier in the future, said she has adequately prepared for the examinations which begins on Monday June 5, 2017. The Deputy Minister who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Weija-Gbawe Constituency in the Ga South Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region encountered the candidate during her rounds to distribute 1500 Mathematical Sets and pens to BECE candidates in 29 public schools within her constituency (Weija-Gbawe) on Friday.
Embracing her in an affectionate hug, she urged the candidate to keep her spirit high so that her dreams to be a soldier will come into being.
Speaking to the BECE candidates at New Gbawe Cluster of Schools, the MP urged them to sit up to the task and ensure that they score the best of grades to qualify for Senior High School.
She reminded them that the government’s Free SHS Programme begins with them so they must take advantage of it.
The Deputy Minister also assured them of her scholarship scheme for needy but brilliant students which she expected them to benefit from to continue their education.
The Unit Head for Education Management and Information Systems (EMIS) at the Ga South Municipal Education Directorate, Ramatu Gariba indicated that they were encouraged by the MP’s presentation to the candidates and assured that the teachers have invested into the candidates very well and were hopeful for best of results this year.
Janet Opokua who spoke to the Daily Guide said her friends, teachers and the School Health Education Programme (SHEP) Coordinator were a great source of inspiration to her as their encouragements helped her to overcome the challenges related to her pregnancy.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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YOU SEE HOW ALL THE OTHER CHILDREN ARE LOOKING ON, THEY WILL ALSO PLAN ON GETTING PREGNANT WHEN IT'S THEIR TURN SO THAT THEY CAN GET THE NATIONAL ATTENTION THAT THIS YOUNG LADY IS GETTING. I APPLAUD HER FOR BEING BOLD TO TAKE THE EXAMS, BUT THAT SHOULD NOT BE NATIONAL NEWS. IT IS LIKE WE ARE CONDONING THAT BEHAVIOR AND THAT WILL SEND THE WRONG SIGNAL TO OTHERS. IT IS AND MUST BE CLEARLY STATED THAT BEING PREGANT WHILE IN SCHOOL IS NOT A GREAT IDEA, BUT HERE WE ARE MAKING THIS GIRL A HERO FOR BEING PREGANT. I UNDERSTAND THAT SOMETIMES THESE PREGNANCIES STEM UP AS A RESULT OR RAPE ETC, BUT STILL...
The Minister did the right to see the young lady who made a mistake but sort to continue with her education ; being pregnant is not an illness besides it is no more a taboo ; did people want the girl to go and have a back room abortion and cause her death; if the young lay has support at home then she can continue with her education ; today there are people who are paying huge sums of money to have children but cannot have them ; she has managed to get one ; may be that is the only child she may have ; no body is glorifying ANYTHING !!!!!
Why publish her name but blur out her face? Peacefm stop copying blindly. If JoyFM got it wrong i expect you to know better. I will condemn her for getting pregnant but encourage her to make the best out of what is left.
Who has not made a mistake before? Pregnancy dose not mean this girl can't pursue her Education, her dreams and her hopes in in life. All she needs is encouragement. Teenager pregnancy is every where this girl is not the first and she won't be the late. She has not give up on her Education most woman are pregnant and still trying to get a degree. Go on girl u can make it ur dreams of becoming a soldier u can do it.
1gn0rânt journalists.....
This is total breakdown of discipline and should not be glorified. We keep lamenting about fallen standards in our society. This and many examples are the causes. The other day a pregnant student nurse was not allowed to write her exams and all hell broke loose; especially from ***barred word*** journalists from some media houses. Every institution has its rules and regulations that one signs on to upon entering or engaging with them. Let's go back to where we started from; discipline, adherence to law and order and Ghana will be a better place.
INSTEAD OF CONDEMNING HER FOR OTHERS TO MOVE AWAY FROM PREMATURE PREGNANCY WHILE IN SCHOOL,YOU ARE RATHER PRAISING HER. IF SHE HAS DONE THE RIGHT THING AT THE RIGHT TIME LET US SEE HER FACE.ARE WE SERIOUS?
She likes biology paaaa!!!
And who told u over population is a problem. The Chinese, Indians, Indonesians have all turned the theory on this topic to the benefit and u talking of 27000000 populace. You know why upon all nigeria's problem we cant catch up, the have the numbers. All we need is to think.
We all should encourage the young girl,we all for once make mistake but I am glad she has made it.