{"id":468484,"date":"2018-02-28T16:49:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/28\/speaker-gives-gender-minister-2-weeks-to-report-on-defilement-of-6-year-old\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T16:49:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:49:56","slug":"speaker-gives-gender-minister-2-weeks-to-report-on-defilement-of-6-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/28\/speaker-gives-gender-minister-2-weeks-to-report-on-defilement-of-6-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker gives Gender Minister 2 weeks to report on defilement of 6-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 28 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-28<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/67529318.295.jpg\" alt=\"OTIKO ANGRY SMOCK\" title=\"OTIKO ANGRY SMOCK\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Gender and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Afisah Djaba<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519836596_716_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Ocquaye, has charged the Gender and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Afisah Djaba to keep a close eye on the case involving the defilement of a 6-year old child at Assin Adadietem in the Central region.<\/p>\n<p>Warning against a family settlement, the Speaker said criminal cases cannot be settled out of court.<\/p>\n<p>His comments followed a brief by the Minister in parliament after Pusiga MP, Laadi Ayamba filed a question to get an official update on the case.<\/p>\n<p>On October 13, 2017, a 16-year old boy allegedly defiled the six-year-old child while her parents were attending to social functions.<\/p>\n<p>An uproar on social media followed leading to the arrest of the accused teen who had gone into hiding.<\/p>\n<p>Otiko Djaba told the house, the girl had been relocated with the hearing of the case against the accused expected to resume on March  1.<\/p>\n<p>It has been adjourned twice.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said, she will soon be seeking cabinet&#8217;s approval for a policy to make it mandatory for community fora to be organised on proper parenting.<\/p>\n<p>She said there are concerns that the mother of the victim was negligent.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, the Speaker said Minister should ensure she is &#8220;personally&#8221; following the case to set an example to the impunity over defilement.<\/p>\n<p>There should be &#8220;no private, personal, official or whatever intervention to kill the case or settle it behind closed doors&#8230;no priest or chief can intervene,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Ocquaye then asked that the Minister briefs the House on the progress of the prosecution in two weeks&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 28 February 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-02-28 Gender and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Afisah Djaba Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Ocquaye, has charged the Gender and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Afisah Djaba to keep a close eye on the case involving the defilement of a 6-year old child at Assin Adadietem in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":455799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}