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The Constitution Review Committee (CRC) Zonal Public Engagement held in Koforidua has drawn widespread participation, as citizens from across the Eastern Region gathered to share views and suggestions on reforming Ghana’s 1992 Constitution. Speaking during the public engagement, Mrs. Rita Akosua Adjei Awatey, Eastern Regional Minister, commended President John Dramani Mahama’s decision to establish the Constitution Review Committee to spearhead public discourse on reviewing and refining Ghana’s 1992 Constitution. She described the move as a testament to the government’s commitment to inclusive, participatory, and forward-looking constitutional reform during the CRC Zonal Public Engagement in the Eastern Regional capital, Koforidua. The forum was con...

Cases of defilement and incest are now common in the Tano North Municipality of the Ahafo Region,, Madam Angelina Aboagyewaa Appiah, the Tano North Municipal Director of the Social Welfare Department has said.She said the municipality had since January 2025 recorded five cases of defilement, mostly linked to incest, saying that alcoholism and substance abuse were identifiable factors that influenced the perpetrators to commit the crime.Madam Appiah said though perpetrators had been prosecuted, many of the cases remained unreported because the victims and their families feared societal stigmatisation.She added that certain belief systems and poverty were also fueling transactional sex, and child marriage and teenage pregnancy in the municipality, and called for stakeholder support to bring ...

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Koforidua: Citizens voices shape democratic reforms during Constitution Review Committee forum

Defilement, incest now common in Tano North Municipality-Director