Begoro (E/R), May 18, GNA - The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has called for co-operation from the Regional Co-ordinating Council and the security agencies to help locate and arrest those behind the production of pornographic films in the region. He observed that, despite the increasing number of evangelism on the airwaves, it was a shame that many negative tendencies were on the rise daily in the region and said information reaching him indicates that 23 per cent of all deaths recorded in the region last year was caused by HIV/AIDS.

Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said the region was also said to have recorded the highest number of pregnant teenagers who wrote the Basic School Certificate Examination in the country this year. He said such developments threw a challenge to the church to find out how they could use their hymns to change society for the better. Mr Ofosu-Ampofo was speaking at the thanksgiving service of the Golden Jubilee Annual Delegates Conference of the Akyem Abuakwa Presbyterian Church of Ghana Choirs Union at Begoro on Sunday. He called on parents to rise up to their responsibilities and to the traditional authorities in the region he called on them to help fight against the rising negative tendencies in the society. Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said it was time the whole country suppressed their political differences and supported the government to fight against the many negative tendencies creeping into the society.

He said before the elections last year, Christians prayed for divine intervention to elect the appropriate leader and God in his own wisdom gave the country the appropriate leader.

The Begorohene, Osaberimah Awuah Kotoko, called for discipline in the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area and urged the people to give honour and respect to their traditional authorities. A 15-member executive of the Choir under the leadership of Mr Wilson Patrick Acheampong was inducted into office for the next three years.