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Mr. Joseph Tetteh Angmore, Upper Manya Krobo District Chief Executive (DCE) has expressed worry about the number of girls in the area who are getting pregnant. He said statistics available indicated that from January to September this year, about 284 teenage pregnancies were recorded, adding that the matter was assuming an alarming proportion to the extent that it had gained the attention of the District Security Committee. Mr. Angmor who was addressing the third ordinary meeting of the first session of the assembly at Asesewa on Thursday, challenged the assembly members to educate young men to live responsible lifestyles. He urged the assembly members to team up with the chiefs, queens and opinion leaders to stamp their authority on the children. Mr. Angmor said the assembly had already completed the first draft of its byelaws, awaiting further study by its solicitor. He said the assembly anticipated that punitive measures contained in its byelaws to deal with negligent parents and deviant children would help bring down teenage pregnancy in the area. Mr. Angmor appealed to the assembly members to take interest in the activities and welfare of the youth to prevent them from moral degeneration. He announced that a number of national service persons had been posted to the district to fill vacancies in various agencies, organizations and schools. Mr. Angmor said as an infant district, �we have to count ourselves blessed to have had large numbers of personnel willing to come to the district, to offer their services to the people, including revenue collection for the assembly�. He however said the behavior of some of the people towards the service persons leaved much to be desired. �Landlords and Landladies are said to be either charging very exorbitant prices for rooms rented by service persons or they refuse to offer the rooms to them to rent. �I have also been informed that some head teachers refused to accept national service persons to their schools and they had to be reposted elsewhere, making some of them feel unwanted.� Mr. Angmor said the situation had compelled the National Service Secretariat to consider reducing the number of personnel who would be posted to the district next year. He therefore appealed to assembly members to assist in educating the people to change their attitude towards the personnel since they are in the district to impart their knowledge for the benefit of the people. �Krobo�s are generally known to be very friendly people and we must be seen to be exhibiting this noble trait,� he said.