Parliament asked to increase sex age to 18

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  • The mask 11 years ago

    I think in view of the above and some cultural practices every district has to decide what it should be?

    I think it has to remain the same.

    Consented sex at 16 but marriage at 18? I am sure many have heard of Mzbel's so ...
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  • don`t care !!! Hmmmmm! 11 years ago

    LAUGH IT OFF

    A group of men gathered at a church
    conference on how to live in a loving
    relationship with their wives. The men were
    asked, "How many of you love your wife ?" All
    the men raised their hands. Then they wer ...
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  • kyikyi 11 years ago

    Thanks for your smart thinking

  • pussy country 11 years ago

    Hahaha you are really funny guy.. i feel you, keep your comment, you are the only person who understand life than others. i like that.

  • Cindy 11 years ago

    Parliament running out of ideas & priorities. So what's the punishment if two 16yr olds are having sex?

  • Anokwa 11 years ago

    Still millions are born without birth certificates. How do you determine the age of village girls who do not know thier date of birth and therefore do not know thier ages. WE ARE STILL A VERY BACKWARD NATION. Laws are not enf ...
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  • CASSAVA REPUBLIC 11 years ago

    Consent, Marriage and Drinking should all be returned to the good old age of 21.

    It was the perverts in Government who lowered it to 18 in the first place.
    Age 16 is an abomination.

  • THE GERMAN FACT 11 years ago

    THE COUNTRY IS IN DANGER SO FIND A SOLUTION TO FIX THE ECONOMY FIRST, NO YOUNG GIRL WILL GO OUT AT THE AGE OF 14 OG 16 TO MAKE SEX, BUT BECAUSE OF THE HARD SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY SO IT HAS NO SENSE TO INCREASE IT TO 20 OR 4 ...
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  • dan 11 years ago

    RATHER THEN WORK ON THE ECONOMY THEY ENGAGE IN NONSENSE

  • Bony 11 years ago

    Ok, so NDC apart from stealing from this beloved Ghana, they are also PEDOPHILES. Agyawadwo! they pass this law in 1992 so they can destroy the future of the young folks....

  • NII 11 years ago

    THE MPS WILL SEE THIS AS USELESS AS SOME ENJOY EVEN THE UNDER 16. FROM YOUR RECORDS 16/40 IS IN THE MINORITY

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

    Okudzeto Ablakwa builds petrol filling stations for girls of the ages of 16
    and 17 buy them 4x4 land cruisers which
    NDC MPs will allow such a law to be enforced even if it became law?

    Tweaaa kwasea bi nti.

  • uuuuuuuuuu 11 years ago

    useless.because te kids demselves start as earl as 13 years. will the mps follow dem?

  • Chiga 11 years ago

    The convention on the rights of the child says that children be involved and consulted on issues that concern them. It also says that with age children be allowed to take certain decisions. So Our people should not continue t ...
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  • Asiwome 11 years ago

    No one talks about violations when there is a mouth to feed, we hear about hungry babies! Parents should be given permission to shoot boys who have sex with their dependent children. It is bad enough when one of two people wh ...
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  • AKOKO DARKO (U.S.A.) 11 years ago

    Are these the people we call 'honourable' I really have my doubts.Whilst the country is engulfed with unsumountable man-made problems,what they are interested in doing is to talk about sex.As Afia Pokua of Adom fame will say ...
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  • Kululu 11 years ago

    Parliament is more concerned about female issues than the wider national issues, why? have they all been converted to Islam?

  • KOLIKO 11 years ago

    The devil finds work for idle hands....it is true.
    What the ffffuck is this when we all know that women are maturing much earlier and some even give birth at 14 or thereabouts? So you want to criminalize this act so that ou ...
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  • KKJT 11 years ago

    Tell that to PV obeng when he was having sex with my ....... @ 15 back in the 90s .

  • DONBOLI 11 years ago

    It is a shame to ghana paliament. The way life is hard the MPs and their leader dont know. Cant these MPs do anything thing about the economy and stop talking about useless things like marriage.
    The education John Mahama and ...
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  • Revjay393@yahoo.co.uk 11 years ago

    THERE ARE THOSE WHO DREAM OF A BETTER LIFESTYLE
    AND
    AND THOSE WHO LIVE THEIR DREAMS
    THOSE WHO WONDER WHAT TOMORROW WILL BRING
    ...
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  • paponi 11 years ago

    So only 16 out of 40 participants signed the documents? Which means the participants themselves don't want the law to be changed! Elders indeed!

  • NANA KING 11 years ago

    THE MOST IMPORTANT LAW MUST BE NO PARENTS SHOULD FORCE THEIR DAUGHTERS IN MARRIAGE.SOME PARENTS WHO ARENT FORCEFUL IN LIFE NOW RELAX ON THEIR DAUGHTERS TO DO SEX EARLY AND GET MARRIED AND BRING DOWRY AND ALSO DEPEND ON THEM.T ...
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  • Joe from spain 11 years ago

    fix the economy and stop making noise fulish people.

  • Muntari 11 years ago

    Hahaha ,bunch of fool .

  • dan 11 years ago

    and stop the nonsense of getting into people busniss and privecy and start the work on the economy that you are destroying with mahama

  • Mohammed 11 years ago

    They are about to destroy Ghanas only Tourist-Attraction "The Ghana babes"! Too bad. if this lay is implemented, I guess you can close down Kotoka International Airport!

  • akwesii 11 years ago

    MONKEYS LOOK ARROUND YOU IDIOTS GHANA IS COLLAPSING BE SERIOUS

  • Wuofei 11 years ago

    Change that shit to 18yrs quickly. Too many pedophiles in Ghana, parliamentarians can only clear themselves by making this happen. Otherwise it's all in their faces!

  • man of the past 11 years ago

    and stop that nonsense not only Ghana all African leaders have nothing to talk about in they are parliament only what the masters in Europe and America told them when they gonna think about our problems not about they are mas ...
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  • KOFI 11 years ago

    The is no age of consent in Japan,but adults do not marry girls at 12 or 16.16 is a reasonable age.Stop copying the west.Let us keep a bit of our own traditions.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    An eighteen-year-old girl tells her mom that she has missed her period For two months. Very worried, the mother goes to the drugstore and buys a pregnancy kit.
    The test result shows that the girl is pregnant.
    Shouting, cu ...
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  • Islam 11 years ago

    Muhammed's wife was 9 years old.

  • Kwame VS Kofi 11 years ago

    The pedophile mohammed lived 1300 years ago. His followers are still preaching his sick and pedophile teachings. Islam is backwards, pedophile, woman discriminating, backwards and a shame for Ghana. Moslems are on the rise an ...
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  • DAN 11 years ago

    and marriage at 18 or 21 unless parents sign or girl pregnant

  • Saddam 11 years ago

    Even at 13 they are having sex with whom. Get back to work because sex in childhood had been since gama gama.

  • nicman@atl 11 years ago

    or an man who make any school going girl pregnant. to dter all the awingaaahs

  • Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris! 11 years ago

    Starting from 18 marrage is ok with.......Amen!,fr Samms!...

  • Antiochus - London 11 years ago

    I think 21 will be ideal.

  • dan 11 years ago

    WITH THIS STUPID LAW

  • Forgive 11 years ago

    Go to Redlight at Lapaz in the evening and see things for yourself{13-16}displaying.