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Man, 84, fined for marrying off minor

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  • Nsemfoo 8 years ago

    He should try that on Mahama's daughter, He would have killed him and go to prison.What a notorious president.

  • Douglas. Bristol-UKº` 8 years ago

    People why is my tribe sooooooo primitive

  • insight to the bone 8 years ago

    this sounds more like some caliphate idiotic pepeni stupidity

  • SARPONG 8 years ago

    Ghana has weird laws. I don't agree with the old man forcing the daughter to leave home and marry somebody she doesn't know but to charge him of marrying a minor?

    Folks, according to Ghana law concerning who should be clas ...
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  • TRUTH STANDS 8 years ago

    I salute you for your comment

  • SCHEMER 8 years ago

    Sometimes some of these decisions irritate me. The man was fined for giving out his underage daughter to marrige. What about the one who married her and had carnal knowledge of her? Who is the GHs 600 for? Is it to repair the ...
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  • Noor 8 years ago

    It must be his not her

  • M Shanunu 8 years ago

    My friend educate yourself before u open your mouth,read Ghana's law that says a 16yr can have sex but cannot marry,the only thing out of the norm here is marrying the girl without her consent,,show respect,

  • Lantey 8 years ago

    Do you understand english yourself? What in SCHEMER's comment is different from what you have written? The girl's father was arrested and fined for giving her underage daughter in marriage. The only thing SCHEMER added was wh ...
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  • Obed Adore 8 years ago

    They should have charged both men (the father and husband).

  • mensah patrick 8 years ago

    Good comment, I salute you for your intelligence

  • aikins 8 years ago

    Why won't they marry as minors since their parents can't afford their education under mahama.

  • Obroni Ba Germany,Berlin 8 years ago

    The hardship is since Ghana become indepence,and not ghana alon in europe here also the same thing,dont say somthing that u dont no.small boy.

  • Pumpuni 8 years ago

    "An 84-year-old man has been fined by an Accra Circuit Court for marrying off her underage daughter." JSS English?

  • Yseh 8 years ago

    What is your understanding of the English language? It did not mean the man married his daughter. It meant he gave the daughter out for marriage.

  • Concerned 8 years ago

    Like you correctly wrote, a man goes with his not her.

  • PEEVED 8 years ago

    Good grief. Where do these "journalists " get their training? How can you write this poorly?

  • Jimmy Shama Adams. 8 years ago

    Did the Cour make orders for the girl to return home? If yes, what home is she coming back to? Again if the state gets the fine of Ghc 600.oo in issue what does the victim gets and probably the complainant as well? Let us mod ...
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  • WATCH THIS PAGE 8 years ago

    He had the child when he was 68. Wonderful.

  • mensa 8 years ago

    what ashame

  • Diasporan 8 years ago

    Journalist: You seem to scatter the essential facts aimlessly across the page: The fact that Mr. Gabo gave out his daughter into marriage; the fact that his daughter was 17 years old; and the fact that the legal marriage for ...
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  • MenayeAFUAforiwa 8 years ago

    if the marriage is agreed upon by the two families,the bride-to be and the groom why should there be any court issues about it?

  • Krakye Kwakye 8 years ago

    Because the "bride-to-be" is a child who cannot legally make the choice as to who she will like to marry.

  • Akos 8 years ago

    What about her education? Why should she be married off while still in school? The cycle of poverty would continue with her children if the pervert marrying refuses to let her complete her education. When a girl educated, the ...
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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 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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  • Obroni Ba Germany,Berlin 8 years ago

    This man,it cann happing that he marring his wife the same underage,thats is why he is also doing the same thing to the dauthger,but is not Goooooooooood, lets other peoples knowing this expecilly the northerners.

  • buzzy 8 years ago

    Does it mean the girl in question has nothing in common doing with the man she has been asked to marry? There is something ominous behind this message.

  • Afia Sika,Gomoa Nkran 8 years ago

    My Lord,I think this man's action warrants a heavier fine than this. Next time give a huge fine that would be extremely beyond the offender's financial capabilities to land them in jail or avoid the fines and send them straig ...
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  • Joerask 8 years ago

    Some judges are stupid to judge stupidity, why sentence the man if the state can care for his citizens things like this will not happen.

  • pp 8 years ago

    Women marry such people because of their worth