A primary class six boy has impregnated three girls in the Ekumfi Adansi Methodist School, Rev Emmanuel Dagbui, a teacher in the school, has said. Rev Dagbui, the Priest in-charge of the Ekumpoano Methodist Church, said this at an Advocacy Youth Assembly at Ekumfi Ebiram in the Mfantseman Municipality. The Youth Assembly, a third to be held in the Municipality, was collaboration between Plan Ghana, a non-governmental organization, and the National Youth Council to make children to know how Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) conduct their meetings. It was also to encourage children to bring to the fore issues that militate against their education and development to the attention of the Assembly. Rev Dagbui was contributing to a discussion on teenage pregnancy which the Youth Assembly said was a problem in the area. Statistics show that in 2007, 19 girls between ages 10 and 14 were impregnated. In 2008, 18 girls between ages 10 and 14 dropped out of school due to pregnancy and 1,129 between ages 15 to 19 got pregnant. In 2009, 17 girls between ages 10 and 14 got pregnant. The children blamed the problem on the inability of parents to exercise control over their children and the failure of parents to provide the needs of their children. On poor Basic Education Certificate Examination results, the children blamed drunkard teachers and those who were not regular at school, children who spend their time watching television and video shows and the government for engaging teachers on other duties such as registration of voters and population census. It came out at the assembly meeting that some of the girls contributed money to pay for abortion any time one of them got pregnant. It was also revealed that thieves had been harassing schools in the Ekumfi Traditional Area. Items in some of the schools had been stolen and these include computes and polytanks belonging the Adansi Methodist School, library books for Essuehyia Methodist, polytanks for Ekotsi and Suprodo schools. Source: GNA